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Holly Black’s first science fiction is a metropolitan dream that magically authorizes people to regulate their path, and occasionally other public’s, shadows, and in which the wealthy and influential corporations in secrets and books of myth while struggling for domination. Charlie, the protagonist of the novel, works as a bartender and lives in the world of normalcy. She expects her sister to be admitted to college, and she lives in a world where she is a scam artist and a bandit.  The publisher has illustrated the story of the novel as :  In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone’s feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a ...

 The Nectar of Pain  Najwa Zebian  I am reviewing one of my forever favorite book . Few days back , while sitting in a library, and watching another person reading The Nectar of Pain   , reminds me of time when I have read this... So I thought to write about this  as well that how your past experience of such books make you feel delighted.  Najwa Zebian has conveyed her feelings through her poems which create an everlasting impact in readers heart.  My all time favourite quote from this treasure is , "Feeling like you will give up doesn't mean that you have to give up. " I would recommend to read this book. Happy Reading with Najwa Zebian ❤️ ~Faryal Karim

That is a complex topic! Let's start by discussing some of the main themes explored in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel centers around the Buendía family, their struggles, and how they slowly sink into a cyclical pattern of isolation, secrets, and unhappiness. The novel follows the generational transition of the family and tells the story of the rise and fall of their isolated town of Macondo. Macondo is a representation of a world lost in time and memory, where the characters are not only struggling with their own internal battles but also trying to avoid being absorbed into the decaying cycle of the family's history. One of the thematic elements explored in the novel is fate and free will—the idea that the characters have no real control over the course their lives take. The characters are constantly faced with choices that could determine their future, but the underlying power of fate is ever present. These decisions affec...

  “To Kill The Mockingbird '' by Harper Lee based on two parts. It is an autobiographical novel representing the characters of her own life based on her observation about the irrational attitude of the adults around her. The narrator of the novel is the girl named Scout Finch, associated with Lee, who lives with her brother Jermey as Jem and her widowed father, Atticus Finch. They live in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. It is the crucial and rigid time of the Great Depression but her father being a lawyer provides them a better status. The plot progresses as one summer with their new friend, they go to play and find something very strange who is Charles Baker Harris. After some time there is a detailed discussion about the inquisitive and underlying characters of the story who are The Radley’s. It is shown how they encounter Bob Radley, Mr.Radley and Mrs. Radley. The story gets on and then there is a tragic case of a black person Tom Robinson who is accused of the rape of a whit...

  “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D.Salinger is a novel about a boy, Holden Caulfield who is 16 years old and has narrated two days of his life which are of great significance to him. He has not been a competent student and calls himself dumb every time and therefore is expelled from several schools ,the former has been Pencey Prep School. The school has expelled him and before leaving he has met his history teacher Spencer and then his roommate, Ward Stradlater who has asked Holden to write an essay about his date with Jane Gallagher, whom Holden also admires, and this made him infuriated as well as agitated. He decides to leave Pencey and move to Manhattan without telling his parents and stays in the Edmont hotel in New York. At that hotel he has undergone several experiences of elders having sexual relationships by gazing through their windows. He goes to the hotel's night club, Lavender Room, and dances with the blond-haired woman, then goes to other clubs and faces people wh...

  Claire Keegan is an Irish writer, one of the new emerging writers in the world and short stories are always award winning. Such as Foster and Small Things Like These . She has always covered areas of greater significance in her stories which are highly recommended and appreciative. Small Things Like These revolves around the illegitimate protagonist Bill Furlong, his wife Eileen and his five daughters. The story is set in the town of New Ross, 1980’s Ireland, at the time of December and upcoming Christmas Eve. Bill Furlong is the coal and timber merchant, having a happy family and leading his life delivering the orders to people. One morning he has to deliver the woods in the convent hall, and when he went there and sees that a girl in a very humiliating condition is there in the coal chamber, he takes her out and then Mother Sister, head of the nuns, who tries her best to console furlong that it’s simply playing hide and seek. Furlong remains worried for her and...