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Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism.

As in all her books, Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals.]]> 496 Svetlana Alexievich 1922253995 Naj 0 to-read 4.44 2013
author: Svetlana Alexievich
name: Naj
average rating: 4.44
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]]> 357486 Written by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown—from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster—and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Composed of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work of immense force, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.]]> 236 Svetlana Alexievich 0312425848 Naj 0 to-read 4.39 1997
author: Svetlana Alexievich
name: Naj
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> 13637 200 Junji Ito 1569319952 Naj 0 to-read 3.87 2002
author: Junji Ito
name: Naj
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 25152 208 Junji Ito 1569317143 Naj 0 to-read 4.45 1998
author: Junji Ito
name: Naj
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> 102324
With modern-day issues explored against a backdrop of horror, SWAMP THING's stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING Book One collects issues #20-27 of this seminal series including the never-before-reprinted SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20, where Moore takes over as writer and concludes the previous storyline.

Book One begins with the story "The Anatomy Lesson," a haunting origin story that reshapes SWAMP THING mythology with terrifying revelations that begin a journey of discovery and adventure that will take him across the stars and beyond.]]> 173 Alan Moore 0930289226 Naj 0 to-read 4.23 1983
author: Alan Moore
name: Naj
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> 34213608
Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes looking for somewhere to hide.
Some people have space within them, perfect for hiding.

Twelve-year-old Makepeace has learned to defend herself from the ghosts which try to possess her in the night, desperate for refuge, but one day a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard.

And now there's a spirit inside her.

The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, and it may be her only defence when she is sent to live with her father's rich and powerful ancestors. There is talk of civil war, and they need people like her to protect their dark and terrible family secret.

But as she plans her escape and heads out into a country torn apart by war, Makepeace must decide which is worse: possession �� or death.]]> 416 Frances Hardinge 1419725726 Naj 0 to-read 3.98 2017
author: Frances Hardinge
name: Naj
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 52362 302 Frank Miller 0930289218 Naj 0 to-read 3.64 1983
author: Frank Miller
name: Naj
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> 106069 376 Jeph Loeb 1563894696 Naj 0 to-read 4.33 1997
author: Jeph Loeb
name: Naj
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> 59980 The Dark Knight Returns!

In 1986, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli produced this groundbreaking reinterpretation of the origin of Batman—who he is and how he came to be.

Written shortly after The Dark Knight Returns, Miller's dystopian fable of Batman's final days, Year One set the stage for a new vision of a legendary character.

This edition includes the complete graphic novel, a new introduction by writer Frank Miller and a new illustrated afterword by artist David Mazzucchelli. Completing this collection are over 40 pages of never-before-seen developmental material such as character and layout sketches, sample script pages, sketches and more that provide a glimpse into the making of this contemporary classic.

This volume collects Batman #404��407.�ձ�> 144 Frank Miller 1401207529 Naj 0 to-read 4.24 1988
author: Frank Miller
name: Naj
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> 28481
In Arianus, Realm of Sky, humans, elves, and dwarves battle for control of precious water--traversing a world of airborne islands on currents of elven magic and the backs of mammoth dragons. But soon great magical forces will begin to rend the fabric of this delicate land. An assassin will be hired to kill a royal prince--by the king himself. A dwarf will challenge the beliefs of his people--and lead them in rebellion. And a sinister wizard will enact his plan to rule Arianus--a plan that may be felt far beyond the Realm of Sky and into the Death Gate itself.]]> 430 Margaret Weis 0553286390 Naj 0 maybe 3.96 1990
author: Margaret Weis
name: Naj
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> 153008
Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.

Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear.

Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.]]> 1040 Jacqueline Carey 0330493744 Naj 0 to-read 4.01 2001
author: Jacqueline Carey
name: Naj
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> 494304 160 Margery Sharp 0316783552 Naj 0 to-read 4.11 1959
author: Margery Sharp
name: Naj
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1959
rating: 0
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]]> 7327327 484 Tony DiTerlizzi 1416983104 Naj 0 to-read 4.11 2009
author: Tony DiTerlizzi
name: Naj
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> 161846 220 John Wyndham 0345299116 Naj 0 to-read 3.91 1957
author: John Wyndham
name: Naj
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> 1005680 112 Eve Titus 0671702874 Naj 0 to-read 3.93 1958
author: Eve Titus
name: Naj
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1958
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/12/31
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]]> 745169 167 أبو جعفر الطحاوي 097028439X Naj 0 to-read 4.55 933
author: أبو جعفر الطحاوي
name: Naj
average rating: 4.55
book published: 933
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/10/19
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]]> 272724
This exploration of Islamic spirituality delves into the psychological diseases and cures of the heart. Diseases examined include miserliness, envy, hatred, treachery, rancour, malice, ostentation, arrogance, covetousness, lust, and other afflictions that assail people and often control them. The causes and practical cures of these diseases are discussed, offering a penetrating glimpse into how Islam deals with spiritual and psychological problems and demonstrating how all people can benefit from these teachings.]]> 220 Hamza Yusuf 1929694156 Naj 0 to-read 4.53 2004
author: Hamza Yusuf
name: Naj
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> 144925
Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. This revised edition includes new sections detailing the prophet’s expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. It represents the final updates made to the text before the author’s death in 2005. The book has been published in 12 languages and has received numerous awards, including acknowledgment as best biography of the prophet in English at the National Seerate Conference in Islamabad.]]> 384 Martin Lings 1594771537 Naj 0 to-read 4.58 1983
author: Martin Lings
name: Naj
average rating: 4.58
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> 15783514
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.]]> 181 Neil Gaiman 0062255657 Naj 5 4.00 2013
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Naj
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2017/01/03
date added: 2017/08/11
shelves: beautiful-books, 2017-reading-challenge, fantasy
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]]> 29496076 ��
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,�� roamed �� virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. The book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly riveting, but also emotionally devastating.]]> 359 David Grann 0385534256 Naj 0 to-read 4.12 2017
author: David Grann
name: Naj
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 1948904 And what paths those will be! While Revolution is afoot in France, Sido is being used as the pawn of a fearful villain who goes by the name Count Kalliovski. Some have instead called him the devil, and only Yann, for Sido's sake, will dare to oppose him.]]> 371 Sally Gardner 184255574X Naj 0 to-read, maybe 3.80 2007
author: Sally Gardner
name: Naj
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 509784 192 Isaac Asimov 0449016196 Naj 0 to-read 4.22 1955
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Naj
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1955
rating: 0
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]]> 39242 Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly ter, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
]]> 456 John Nichols 0805063749 Naj 0 to-read 4.09 1974
author: John Nichols
name: Naj
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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]]> 17939319 “A hilarious, sad…all too true novel about the rough underside of a college love affair.”—John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace

When eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne first meets Pookie Adams at the Friarsburg, Oklahoma, bus depot, he is hardly aware that this moment marks the beginning of the most memorable love affair of his life. Overwhelmed (and yet secretly enchanted) by her zany, rambling monologue, Jerry is relieved to leave her in St. Louis as he continues to New York. Thinking he’s seen the last of her, he heads off to college, only to be pursued by seventeen lengthy letters, and before he knows it he’s involved with a seemingly crazy, startlingly honest girl who adores him. During the next two years, Pookie helps Jerry leave behind the fun-seeking, beer-blasted fraternity man he has become, as she teaches him to open his heart to her. Then, almost as suddenly as she appeared in his life, she disappears from it, leaving in her wake an eternal trail of love and wonder.]]> 224 John Nichols 0393348490 Naj 0 to-read 3.56 1965
author: John Nichols
name: Naj
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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]]> 579756
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict, unbending routine. Her patients, cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy, dare not oppose her. But everything changes with the arrival of McMurphy �� the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin. McMurphy battles Nurse Ratched and the ward regime, challenging everyone's beliefs about madness... who, of them all, is really insane?]]> 393 Ken Kesey 0141024879 Naj 5
If you have seen the Movie,then you MUST READ THE NOVEL.]]> 4.06 1962
author: Ken Kesey
name: Naj
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1962
rating: 5
read at: 2017/04/17
date added: 2017/04/17
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I am not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the best modern American novels written. I really enjoyed reading it and loved every aspect in this novel from settings, to characters, narration , plot...etc

If you have seen the Movie,then you MUST READ THE NOVEL.
]]> 51606
This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war.

Winner of the National Book Award.]]> 309 Dalton Trumbo 0806512814 Naj 0 to-read 4.19 1939
author: Dalton Trumbo
name: Naj
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1939
rating: 0
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]]> 156534
But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while running from angry female Republicans (now running the government), Amazon wannabes that include his own sister (seemingly brainwashed), and other threats.]]> 130 Brian K. Vaughan 1563899809 Naj 5 4.08 2003
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Naj
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2003
rating: 5
read at: 2015/11/07
date added: 2017/04/17
shelves: 2015-reading-challenge, graphic-novel, post-apocalyptic
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]]> 85679 93 Bertolt Brecht 155970361X Naj 0 to-read 3.70 1941
author: Bertolt Brecht
name: Naj
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1941
rating: 0
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]]> 84927
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Steven Brand as Baron van Swieten
James Callis as Mozart
Michael Emerson as Salieri
Darren Richardson as Venticello 2
Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
Mark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1
Simon Templeman as Joseph II
Brian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack
Jocelyn Towne as Constanze

Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September of 2016.]]> 160 Peter Shaffer 0060935499 Naj 0 to-read 4.16 1979
author: Peter Shaffer
name: Naj
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> 26114135
As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you wont soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.]]> 432 Bryn Greenwood Naj 0 to-read 3.96 2016
author: Bryn Greenwood
name: Naj
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 30556459 A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past and the truth about her mother's death in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.

After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past; a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. This father-daughter epic weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks.

Both a coming-of-age novel and a literary thriller, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley explores what it means to be a hero, and the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.]]> 376 Hannah Tinti 0812989880 Naj 0 to-read 3.85 2017
author: Hannah Tinti
name: Naj
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 462335 304 Humphrey Cobb 0820308846 Naj 0 to-read 4.21 1935
author: Humphrey Cobb
name: Naj
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1935
rating: 0
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]]> 355697
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war��. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier�� experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.]]> 296 Erich Maria Remarque 0449213943 Naj 0 to-read 4.04 1928
author: Erich Maria Remarque
name: Naj
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1928
rating: 0
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]]> 243705 283 John Fowles Naj 0 to-read 3.97 1963
author: John Fowles
name: Naj
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1963
rating: 0
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]]> 11489682 Green River Killer: A True Detective Story is bound to become a well-recognized member of the crime-genre graphic novel family, including titles like Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter and Alan Moore’s From Hell.]]> 234 Jeff Jensen 1595825606 Naj 4 3.85 2011
author: Jeff Jensen
name: Naj
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2016/01/01
date added: 2017/04/10
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If you Enjoyed watching true detective as well as a korean movie called " memoirs of a murder " then you will enjoy reading this graphic novel.
]]> 108978 This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780099800200

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.]]> 157 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Naj 5
This is one of the best written novels about WAR . Slaughterhouse 5 isn't your typical novel , It is really difficult to put it under 1 category . The novel follows the main character's " Billy Pilgrim " as he re-tells / re-lives his memories in WWII told in a non linear form of narration that involves time travel , spaceships, aliens and madness. I would like to recommend this novel to everybody but I know sadly not everyone can grasp Vonnegut's style. This is not a regular Sci-fi book , it is a beautiful outlook on life delivered through a different unique format.]]> 4.01 1969
author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
name: Naj
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1969
rating: 5
read at: 2017/04/08
date added: 2017/04/09
shelves: 2017-reading-challenge, all-time-fav, beautiful-books, book-hangover, historical-fiction, sci-fi
review:
Beyond 5 stars.

This is one of the best written novels about WAR . Slaughterhouse 5 isn't your typical novel , It is really difficult to put it under 1 category . The novel follows the main character's " Billy Pilgrim " as he re-tells / re-lives his memories in WWII told in a non linear form of narration that involves time travel , spaceships, aliens and madness. I would like to recommend this novel to everybody but I know sadly not everyone can grasp Vonnegut's style. This is not a regular Sci-fi book , it is a beautiful outlook on life delivered through a different unique format.
]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Naj 4 3.89 2003
author: Mark Haddon
name: Naj
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2017/02/01
date added: 2017/04/08
shelves: to-read, 2017-reading-challenge, young-adult
review:
This novel is one of the must read YA novels out there. It's a simple story about a simple incident that changes the protagonist's life . The novel is short written in a creative entertaining form.
]]> 293595 32 Bill Martin Jr. 068983568X Naj 5 Note they are " 5 year old kids ". It's a beautiful picture book about the Alphabets trying to climb the coconut tree. The book is composed of a catchy rhyme that enables to sing along with your child.
I really recommend this book to every parent, K and Pre-K teacher.]]> 4.25 1989
author: Bill Martin Jr.
name: Naj
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1989
rating: 5
read at: 2016/11/01
date added: 2017/01/06
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, all-time-fav, book-hangover, beautiful-books, children-literature, picture-books, read-x-times
review:
I read it to my class and they LOVED It!.
Note they are " 5 year old kids ". It's a beautiful picture book about the Alphabets trying to climb the coconut tree. The book is composed of a catchy rhyme that enables to sing along with your child.
I really recommend this book to every parent, K and Pre-K teacher.
]]> 62953 Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realized young women.

Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this is a quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) about two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.

]]> 80 Daniel Clowes 1560974273 Naj 1 If you want to see a story about a teenager stuck in his crappy town and school where nothing happens yet somehow it entertains you then watch " Napoleon dynamite".]]> 3.83 1998
author: Daniel Clowes
name: Naj
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1998
rating: 1
read at: 2016/09/01
date added: 2017/01/06
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, graphic-novel, just-why
review:
what can I say ....... I just was tricked by the hype...... this graphic novel was bleak and really NOTHING HAPPENS except for two girls who keep on whining ugh ugh UGH and eff this and that.
If you want to see a story about a teenager stuck in his crappy town and school where nothing happens yet somehow it entertains you then watch " Napoleon dynamite".
]]> 25387851 From the award-winning designer of the iconic Penguin Hardcover Classics comes a beautifully illustrated fable about loss, friendship, and courage

The Fox and the Star is the story of a friendship between a lonely Fox and the Star who guides him through the frightfully dark forest. Illuminated by Star’s rays, Fox forages for food, runs with the rabbits, and dances in the rain—until Star suddenly goes out and life changes, leaving Fox huddling for warmth in the unfamiliar dark. To find his missing Star, Fox must embark on a wondrous journey beyond the world he knows—a journey lit by courage, newfound friends, and just maybe, a star-filled new sky.

Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement and the art of William Blake, The Fox and the Star��is a heartwarming, hopeful tale which comes alive through Bickford-Smith’s beloved illustrations, guiding readers both young and grown to “look up beyond your ears.”]]> 80 Coralie Bickford-Smith 0143108670 Naj 4 In short this is a beautiful book. ]]> 4.13 2015
author: Coralie Bickford-Smith
name: Naj
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2016/11/01
date added: 2017/01/06
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, beautiful-books, children-literature, picture-books
review:
I really loved the illustrations and the story.
In short this is a beautiful book.
]]> 27993234 AMAZON.COM’s 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

Every story has two sides.
Every relationship has two perspectives.
And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.

At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.]]> 390 Lauren Groff 0099592533 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 3.51 2015
author: Lauren Groff
name: Naj
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/23
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]]> 28805
His rival: Lajos Varjú, the Inspector Clouseau of the Iron Curtain, whose knowledge of police work comes from Hungarian-dubbed episodes of Columbo. His deputy is nicknamed "Mound of Asshead" because of his propensity for crashing police cars. His forensics expert, known as "Dance Instructor" for his lucrative side career teaching ballet, wears a top hat and tails on the job.

Welcome to Julian Rubinstein's uproariously funny and unforgettable account of crime in the heart of the new Europe. With a supporting cast that includes car wash owners, exotic dancers, drunk army generals, cocaine-snorting Hungarian rappers, the Johnnie Cochran of Budapest, and a hockey team that seems to spend as much time breaking the law as it does practicing, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber gives us the most charming outlaw-hero since the Sundance Kid—and the Sundance Kid didn't play hockey.

As the Eastern bloc slips off its communist skin and replaces it with leopard-skin hot pants, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is here to screw in the pink lightbulbs. Part Unbearable Lightness of Being, part Pink Panther, and part Slap Shot, Julian Rubinstein's tale is a spectacular literary debut—and a story so outrageous that it could only be true.]]> 352 Julian Rubinstein 0316010731 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 4.02 2004
author: Julian Rubinstein
name: Naj
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> 27712
The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic, and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart.

Readers, too, can travel to the wondrous, unforgettable world of Fantastica if they will just turn the page...]]> 396 Michael Ende 0525457585 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 4.16 1979
author: Michael Ende
name: Naj
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/23
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]]> 86236 Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.

Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.]]> 243 Jean Hegland 0553379615 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 3.77 1996
author: Jean Hegland
name: Naj
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1996
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: to-read, wish-list
review:

]]> 334176 419 Mary Doria Russell 0449912558 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 4.13 1996
author: Mary Doria Russell
name: Naj
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: to-read, wish-list
review:

]]> 125225 704 Elizabeth Bishop 0374524459 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 4.42 1995
author: Elizabeth Bishop
name: Naj
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1995
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: to-read, wish-list
review:

]]> 28819821
Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . . .

Snared and murdered by a vile, arcane horror, Chet quickly learns that pain and death are not unique to the living. Now the lives and very souls of his wife and unborn child are at stake. To save them, he must journey into the bowels of purgatory in search of a sacred key promised to restore the natural order of life and death. Alone, confused, and damned, Chet steels himself against the unfathomable terrors awaiting him as he descends into death’s stygian blackness.

With Lost Gods, Brom’s gritty and visceral prose takes us on a haunting, harrowing journey into the depths of the underworld. Thrust into a realm of madness and chaos, where ancient gods and demons battle over the dead, and where cabals of souls conspire to overthrow their masters, Chet plays a dangerous game, risking eternal damnation to save his family.]]> 496 Brom 0062095706 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 4.22 2016
author: Brom
name: Naj
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/23
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]]> 871186
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.]]> 736 Mark Z. Danielewski 0375420525 Naj 0 to-read, wish-list 4.13 2000
author: Mark Z. Danielewski
name: Naj
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2000
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/23
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]]> 10146440 99 Andrew Kaufman 0982525451 Naj 4 It's an interesting short story about a strange bank robbery that didn't involve any cash theft, instead the thief claimed from 13 people to hand in their most beloved possessions ! following this incident each of the 13 people experience bizarre events !!
It was very entertaining light read and I have to admit some parts were really awkward and puzzling. I loved the construction of the narrative as the whole short story can be divided into short stories featuring every character and the impact of the robbery in their life, while focusing on one main character " Stacey " aka " the tiny wife".
If anyone decided to bring this short story to the big screen it would definitely be TIM BURTON .


]]> 3.78 2010
author: Andrew Kaufman
name: Naj
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2016/07/14
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: short-story, read-in-1-day, e-pub, 2016-reading-challenge, fab-club-2016
review:
This was the first book to read by Andrew Kaufman and I have really enjoyed it !
It's an interesting short story about a strange bank robbery that didn't involve any cash theft, instead the thief claimed from 13 people to hand in their most beloved possessions ! following this incident each of the 13 people experience bizarre events !!
It was very entertaining light read and I have to admit some parts were really awkward and puzzling. I loved the construction of the narrative as the whole short story can be divided into short stories featuring every character and the impact of the robbery in their life, while focusing on one main character " Stacey " aka " the tiny wife".
If anyone decided to bring this short story to the big screen it would definitely be TIM BURTON .



]]> 13376363 37 Warsan Shire 1905233299 Naj 4 It is a battle of trying to find home and blending in while trying to keep/ protect your identity. There is an Arabic quote that I couldn't stop thinking about the moment I read the title of Warsan's book, It is by an Egyptian poet "Hafez Ibrahim" he says:
"A mother is a school, empower her and you empower a great nation".
Finally,here are some lines from the poem "old spice" that is featured in this book:
"Your grandfather is dying.
He begs you Take me home yaqay,
I just want to see it one last time;
you don’t know how to tell him that it won’t be
anything like the way he left it.”]]> 4.23 2011
author: Warsan Shire
name: Naj
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2016/07/13
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: read-in-1-day, this-book-made-me-cry, poetry, fab-club-2016, e-pub, 2016-reading-challenge
review:
very beautiful heart breaking collection of poems by Warsan shire , it covers different topics regarding immigration, sexuality, motherhood,love , family , history,...etc
It is a battle of trying to find home and blending in while trying to keep/ protect your identity. There is an Arabic quote that I couldn't stop thinking about the moment I read the title of Warsan's book, It is by an Egyptian poet "Hafez Ibrahim" he says:
"A mother is a school, empower her and you empower a great nation".
Finally,here are some lines from the poem "old spice" that is featured in this book:
"Your grandfather is dying.
He begs you Take me home yaqay,
I just want to see it one last time;
you don’t know how to tell him that it won’t be
anything like the way he left it.��
]]> 3685
Whether pulling an elegant carriage or a ramshackle cab, Black Beauty tries to live as best he can. This is his amazing story, told as only he could tell it.]]> 245 Anna Sewell 0439228905 Naj 5 3.99 1877
author: Anna Sewell
name: Naj
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1877
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: children-literature, this-book-made-me-cry
review:

]]> 7707344 نمً قدرات اطفالك مع 50 قصة ebook بالصور المجموعة الأولى - شبكة روايتي الثقافية
Helpful PERFECT for all ages, and anyone wanting to get familiar with the Arabic language.


لطالما كنت مغرمةً في صغري, بقصص المكتبة الخضراء فقد قرأت بعضاً منها و البعض الآخر شاهدته في أفلام, الكارتون إلا أنني لم أقرأ هذه القصة قبل الآن !

" بسبب الغيرة و ضيق, العقل ، غيرة العمه الشريره من أولاد أخيها "

هذا محور الحكايه

تدبر العمه الشريره مكيده لأبناء, أخيها للتخلص منهم فتذهب بهم إلى الغابه , في الجانب الآخر أخوها الملك, يبحث عنهم في أرجاء البلاد ولا يجدهم

لكن النهايه السعيده, تُعيد الأبناء إلىأحضان أبيهم ..

قصه جميله أعادتني إلى طفولتي, أحببتها جداً .]]> 47 عادل الغضبان 9770248703 Naj 5 3.75 2004
author: عادل الغضبان
name: Naj
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
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review:
كتاب عزيز جدا عليا من سلسلة المكتبة الخضراء. كانت ديما جدتي الله يرحمها بتقرا لي القصة دي
]]> 12859425
نفسية كئيبة ذات تصوير رائع]]> 133 شيرين هنائي Naj 3 2.80 2011
author: شيرين هنائي
name: Naj
average rating: 2.80
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: cont-ar-novels, crime-and-thriller
review:

]]> 16031620
في "8 غرب"، القسم الذي يقرّر مَصير مُرتكبي الجرائم، يُقابل صديقاً قديماً يحمل إليه ماضياً جاهد طويلاً لينساه، ويصبح مَصيره فجأة بين يدي يحيى..

تعصِف المفاجآت بيحيى وتنقلب حياته رأسًا على عقب، ليصبح ما بدأ كمحاولة لاكتشاف حقيقة صديقه، رحلة مثيرة لاكتشاف نفسه.. أو ما تبقى منها..

يأخذنا أحمد مراد في روايته الثالثة إلى كواليس عالم غريب قضى عامين في دراسة تفاصيله، رحلة مثيرة مستكشف فيها أعمق وأغرب خبايا النفس البشرية..]]> 386 أحمد مراد 9770931543 Naj 3 3.79 2012
author: أحمد مراد
name: Naj
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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]]> 6219755 وهذه الطبعة هي نسخة تكاد تكون طبق الأصل الذي نشر عام 1963 في طبعة الرباعيات الأولى التي وضع رسومها الفنان الكبير ادم حنين

بهاء جاهين]]> 112 صلاح جاهين 9776299229 Naj 3 poetry 4.08 1963
author: صلاح جاهين
name: Naj
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1963
rating: 3
read at:
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shelves: poetry
review:

]]> 13610986 532 E.L. James 0099579928 Naj 3 romance, tough-love 3.59 2011
author: E.L. James
name: Naj
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at:
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shelves: romance, tough-love
review:
This is where the FSOG books should have stopped !.
]]> 13599151 579 E.L. James 0099579944 Naj 1 romance, tough-love, just-why clearly the publishers just pressured E.L James to write another book so they can make more money selling a trilogy . I really found this book to be pointless, I feel that the ending of fifty shades darker was the real ending of the story. The only amusing thing about this book was knowing Christian Grey's perspective at the last 20 pages ... ]]> 3.53 2012
author: E.L. James
name: Naj
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2012
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 2016/08/23
shelves: romance, tough-love, just-why
review:
TOO LONG, I can't believe that I am saying this about an Erotica Novel but this book was BORING!
clearly the publishers just pressured E.L James to write another book so they can make more money selling a trilogy . I really found this book to be pointless, I feel that the ending of fifty shades darker was the real ending of the story. The only amusing thing about this book was knowing Christian Grey's perspective at the last 20 pages ...
]]> 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 Naj 5 3.86 1859
author: Charles Dickens
name: Naj
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1859
rating: 5
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review:

]]> 29243630 AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN

Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.

In “The Cartographers,�� the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In “Saying Goodbye to Yang,�� the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become.

Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.]]> 229 Alexander Weinstein 1250099005 Naj 0 to-read 3.74 2016
author: Alexander Weinstein
name: Naj
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 35206 �鲹����ō���Dz� to his later, more autobiographical writings.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ���鲹����ō���Dz��� and ��In a Bamboo Grove�� inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ��The Nose��, ��O-Gin�� and ��Loyalty�� paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ��Death Register��, ��The Life of a Stupid Man�� and ��Spinning Gears��, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.

A WORLD IN DECAY
- �鲹����ō���Dz� (Sep 1915)
- In a Bamboo Grove (Dec 1921)
- The Nose (Jan 1916)
- Dragon: The Old Potter's Tale (May 1919)
- The Spider Thread (Apr 1918)
- Hell Screen (1918)
UNDER THE SWORD
- Dr. Ogata Ryōsai: Memorandum (Dec 7th 1916)
- O-Gin (Aug 1922)
- Loyalty (Feb 1917)
MODERN TRAGICOMEDY
- The Story of a Head That Fell Off (Dec 1917)
- Green Onions (Dec 1919)
- Horse Legs (Jan 1925)
AKUTAGAWA'S OWN STORY
- Daidōji Shinsuke: The Early Years (Dec 9th 1924)
- The Writer's Craft (Mar 1924)
- The Baby's Sickness (Jul 1923)
- Death Register (Sep 1926)
- The Life of a Stupid Man (Jun 1927 posthumous)
- Spinning Gears (Jun 1927 posthumous)

Cover illustration by Yoshihiro Tatsumi]]> 268 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 0143039849 Naj 0 to-read 4.15 1927
author: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
name: Naj
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1927
rating: 0
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]]> 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 Naj 0 to-read 4.35 2012
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Naj
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/21
shelves: to-read
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]]> 31342576
Meanwhile Maha, a senior at the school, just wants to have a drama-free and fun senior year �� but gets exactly the opposite. She finds herself caught up in a divine storm where everything in her life goes wrong. Shattered dreams, melodramas, fallouts and love triangles are just a few of the issues she has to battle. Maha doesn’t know if she can handle the pressure and risks losing herself in her efforts not to be the class misfit.]]> 268 Mahi Wasfy Naj 0 to-read 3.71
author: Mahi Wasfy
name: Naj
average rating: 3.71
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 25337536 Shift. Getting to spend the summer in New York City to live her dream of becoming a writer? Harper’s totally in.

There's just one teeny, tiny, infinitesimal problem: apart from some dance floor make-outs, Harper doesn’t have a lot of—or, really, any—dating expertise. In fact, she might have sort of stolen her best friend’s experiences as her own on her Shift application. But she can learn on the job…right?

From awkward run-ins with the cute neighborhood dog walker to terrifying encounters with her crazed editor, from Brooklyn gallery openings to weekends in the Hamptons, Harper finds out what it takes to make it in the Big City—and as the writer of her own destiny.]]> 320 Laura Stampler 1481459899 Naj 0 to-read 3.78 2016
author: Laura Stampler
name: Naj
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 335919 175 Eric Frank Russell 0575070951 Naj 0 to-read 4.07 1957
author: Eric Frank Russell
name: Naj
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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]]> 12401556 The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change.
��
On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world: divisions widening between her parents; strange behavior by her friends; the pain and vulnerability of first love; a growing sense of isolation; and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker paints a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.]]> 294 Karen Thompson Walker 0812983602 Naj 5 The Age of Miracles is a unique Sci-Fi / Post apocalyptic novel that takes places in California.
The protagonist of the story is 11 year old Julia who lives a regular happy life with her father & mother but this all changes as soon as a unique phenomena known as " The Slowing" which impacts their lives as well as the lives of the rest of the planet.
Here is what I love about this novel:
1. The writing style, It is simply Heartbreakingly beautiful.
2. The narration : It's a dual voice " mix between an adult Julia & a Juvenile Julia"
3. The events that follows " The Slowing"
4. Her portrayal of middle school life
5. JULIA <3 <3 <3
6. The title of the novel is a beautiful pun :)
P.S: this a slow novel " If you are expecting an action one like the movie " deep impact ,..etc" then this book is NOT FOR YOU . In short this is a COMING OF AGE STORY that takes place at the end of the world .
]]> 3.66 2012
author: Karen Thompson Walker
name: Naj
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2016/08/16
date added: 2016/08/16
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, young-adult, fab-club-2016, sci-fi, beautiful-books, post-apocalyptic
review:
This is one of the most beautiful Sci-Fi novels I've ever read ! and surprisingly it is a YA novel!!.
The Age of Miracles is a unique Sci-Fi / Post apocalyptic novel that takes places in California.
The protagonist of the story is 11 year old Julia who lives a regular happy life with her father & mother but this all changes as soon as a unique phenomena known as " The Slowing" which impacts their lives as well as the lives of the rest of the planet.
Here is what I love about this novel:
1. The writing style, It is simply Heartbreakingly beautiful.
2. The narration : It's a dual voice " mix between an adult Julia & a Juvenile Julia"
3. The events that follows " The Slowing"
4. Her portrayal of middle school life
5. JULIA <3 <3 <3
6. The title of the novel is a beautiful pun :)
P.S: this a slow novel " If you are expecting an action one like the movie " deep impact ,..etc" then this book is NOT FOR YOU . In short this is a COMING OF AGE STORY that takes place at the end of the world .

]]> 12944651 Miriam Black knows when you will die.

She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.

But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.

No matter what she does she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.]]> 381 Chuck Wendig 0857662309 Naj 0 to-read 3.74 2012
author: Chuck Wendig
name: Naj
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/14
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 20893407 The secret is, vampires are real and I am one.

The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry��

New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks.

The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy.

Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were.

And neither are the rest of us.]]> 368 Christopher Buehlman 0425272613 Naj 0 to-read, maybe 4.02 2014
author: Christopher Buehlman
name: Naj
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/08/14
shelves: to-read, maybe
review:

]]> 28220806 325 Mariko Koike 1250060540 Naj 0 to-read 3.23 1988
author: Mariko Koike
name: Naj
average rating: 3.23
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/14
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 25533076
Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes at will. She stands next to your bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened.

The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated with being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting, but in so doing send the town spiraling into the dark, medieval practices of the past.]]> 384 Thomas Olde Heuvelt 0765378809 Naj 0 to-read 3.69 2013
author: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
name: Naj
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/14
shelves: to-read
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]]> 16057298
These are love stories. And also monster stories. Sometimes these are monsters in their traditional guises, sometimes they wear the faces of parents, lovers, or ourselves. The often working-class people in these stories are driven to extremes by love. Sometimes, they are ruined; sometimes redeemed. All are faced with the loneliest corners of themselves and strive to find an escape.

Nathan Ballingrud was born in Massachusetts but has spent most of his life in the South. He worked as a bartender in New Orleans and New York City and a cook on offshore oil rigs. His story "The Monsters of Heaven" won the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his daughter.]]> 205 Nathan Ballingrud 1618730592 Naj 0 to-read 3.97 2013
author: Nathan Ballingrud
name: Naj
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/08/14
shelves: to-read
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]]> 130260
Detective Inspector Jack Caffery - young, driven, unshockable - finds himself facing both hostility within the force and echoes of his past in this, his first case with AMIP. Haunted by the memory of a death long ago, he employs every weapon forensic science can offer for he knows it is only a matter of time before this chaotic, sadistic killer strikes again.]]> 448 Mo Hayder 0440236169 Naj 0 to-read 3.89 1999
author: Mo Hayder
name: Naj
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1999
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/08/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 1617 Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.]]> 120 Elie Wiesel 0374500010 Naj 0 to-read 4.38 1956
author: Elie Wiesel
name: Naj
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1956
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/27
shelves: to-read
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]]> 12528627
Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate - foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question. Christopher's mother, Rose, has dedicated her life to finding out what really happened to her son, who disappeared after the raid in which Jonas' village was destroyed. When Jonas meets Rose, a shocking and painful secret gradually surfaces from the past, and builds to a shattering conclusion that haunts long after the final page. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about what happens when foreign disaster appears at our own doorstep. It is a rare and virtuosic novel from an exciting new writer to watch.]]> 272 Stephen Dau 0399158456 Naj 0 to-read, maybe 3.59 2012
author: Stephen Dau
name: Naj
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/23
shelves: to-read, maybe
review:

]]> 26893819 355 Emma Cline 081299860X Naj 0 to-read 3.48 2016
author: Emma Cline
name: Naj
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/22
shelves: to-read
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]]> 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Naj 5 4.13 2012
author: John Green
name: Naj
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2014/01/04
date added: 2016/07/20
shelves: this-book-made-me-cry, romance, book-hangover
review:
This book is one of those books that will give you a serious book hangover.
]]> 23995336 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.

This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts.

In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.

The leopard --
Granddaughters --
The Grozny Tourist Bureau --
A prisoner of the Caucasus --
The tsar of love and techno --
Wolf of White Forest --
Palace of the people --
A temporary exhibition --
The end]]> 332 Anthony Marra 0770436439 Naj 0 to-read 4.27 2015
author: Anthony Marra
name: Naj
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/20
shelves: to-read
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]]> 18226389
Ben was a social misfit, ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend - a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her, Ben became involved with drugs and the dark arts. When the town suddenly turned against him, his thoughts turned black. But was he capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful...]]> 345 Gillian Flynn 0804138338 Naj 5 3.83 2009
author: Gillian Flynn
name: Naj
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2015/06/25
date added: 2016/07/19
shelves:
review:

]]> 26025580
“The Grownup,�� originally appeared as “What Do You Do?�� in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology.]]> 64 Gillian Flynn 0804188971 Naj 4 Oh woow I mean for a short story It has indeed blew my mind in 62 pages .
quiet an interesting first line opening indeed :D
But seriously this thrilling short story has it all :
An effed up main character whom we don't know HER " HIS maybe :D ?"name.
A desperate Housewife " maybe? " .
A young 15 who looks like an innocent 12 year old psychopath "maybe" .
An old Victorian " haunted maybe?" house.
up till now am not sure about a lot of things in this short story but what I can assure you :
It is a TWISTED SHORT STORY that will make you finish it in one sitting !
P.S : I do believe that the ending fit this story perfectly
هي قصة قصيرة من كاتبة رواية " المفقودة " " جون جيرل " قصة فعلا مش حتخليك تسيب الكتاب إلا لما تخلصه . أنا نفسي بجد أعرف طفولة الكاتبة كانت إزاي ؟؟ لإنه بمجرد لما أخلص قراية اي رواية ليها بحس انه عايزة أقعد في حتة فيها شمس و محاطة ببشر و أطفال بجد . القصة عبارة عن بطلة أو بطل ! منعرفش اسمه او اسمها أنا فعلا ما لقيتش دلالة على حاجة تقولي جنس الشخصية الرئيسية : هل هو راجل و لا ست لاننا منعرفش الأسم و لا نعرف حتى الوصف كل اللي نعرفه عن الشخصيه هو المهنة و لون الشعر "بني " و انها بتلبس نضارة. الأحداث بتحصل في بيت قديم لعيلة غنية بعد ما صاحبة البيت تيجي للبطلة عشان تطلب منها انها تقرألها كفها . أنا فعلا بحاول اتخيل الرواية حتترجم للعربي إزاي ؟]]> 3.55 2014
author: Gillian Flynn
name: Naj
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2016/07/19
date added: 2016/07/19
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, short-story, crime-and-thriller, booktubeathon-2016
review:
My first book to read in this year's booktubeathon ^^
Oh woow I mean for a short story It has indeed blew my mind in 62 pages .
quiet an interesting first line opening indeed :D
But seriously this thrilling short story has it all :
An effed up main character whom we don't know HER " HIS maybe :D ?"name.
A desperate Housewife " maybe? " .
A young 15 who looks like an innocent 12 year old psychopath "maybe" .
An old Victorian " haunted maybe?" house.
up till now am not sure about a lot of things in this short story but what I can assure you :
It is a TWISTED SHORT STORY that will make you finish it in one sitting !
P.S : I do believe that the ending fit this story perfectly
هي قصة قصيرة من كاتبة رواية " المفقودة " " جون جيرل " قصة فعلا مش حتخليك تسيب الكتاب إلا لما تخلصه . أنا نفسي بجد أعرف طفولة الكاتبة كانت إزاي ؟؟ لإنه بمجرد لما أخلص قراية اي رواية ليها بحس انه عايزة أقعد في حتة فيها شمس و محاطة ببشر و أطفال بجد . القصة عبارة عن بطلة أو بطل ! منعرفش اسمه او اسمها أنا فعلا ما لقيتش دلالة على حاجة تقولي جنس الشخصية الرئيسية : هل هو راجل و لا ست لاننا منعرفش الأسم و لا نعرف حتى الوصف كل اللي نعرفه عن الشخصيه هو المهنة و لون الشعر "بني " و انها بتلبس نضارة. الأحداث بتحصل في بيت قديم لعيلة غنية بعد ما صاحبة البيت تيجي للبطلة عشان تطلب منها انها تقرألها كفها . أنا فعلا بحاول اتخيل الرواية حتترجم للعربي إزاي ؟
]]> 25733990
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.

But some can never stop searching for answers.

Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?]]> 320 Sylvain Neuvel 1101886692 Naj 0 to-read 3.82 2016
author: Sylvain Neuvel
name: Naj
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 18428067
In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed—a failed physician—to the bombed-out hospital, where Sonja, the one remaining doctor, treats a steady stream of wounded rebels and refugees and mourns her missing sister. Over the course of five dramatic days, Akhmed and Sonja reach back into their pasts to unravel the intricate mystery of coincidence, betrayal, and forgiveness that unexpectedly binds them and decides their fate.

With The English Patient's dramatic sweep and The Tiger's Wife's expert sense of place, Marra gives us a searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, and how it can cause us to become greater than we ever thought possible.]]> 416 Anthony Marra 0770436420 Naj 0 to-read 4.10 2013
author: Anthony Marra
name: Naj
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/17
shelves: to-read
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]]> 27071490 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.

Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.]]> 305 Yaa Gyasi Naj 0 to-read 4.48 2016
author: Yaa Gyasi
name: Naj
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/07/17
shelves: to-read
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]]> 20575446
But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer--a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake.

From acclaimed teen author (Little Brother, For the Win) and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow and Koko Be Good creator Jen Wang, In Real Life is a perceptive and high-stakes look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture clash.]]> 175 Cory Doctorow 1596436581 Naj 1 و الله العظيم كرتون جزيرة الفواكه كان عامل شغل اجمد من كده حتى بشكل الجرافيك البسيط بتاعه
]]> 3.81 2014
author: Cory Doctorow
name: Naj
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2014
rating: 1
read at: 2016/07/18
date added: 2016/07/17
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, graphic-novel, read-in-1-day, fab-club-2016
review:
Beautiful Art !!" hence the 1 star". This graphic novel sheds the light on serious Issues in gaming industry but in a very very very Naive plot with a Care bearish Ending ! :D I understand the writer's good intentions , but really how these complex topics were delivered was an " Epic Fail " honestly in real life things would have been much uglier ! the only things that I loved about this graphic novel would be : The Art and Finally we have a main character that doesn't have a ripped body !
و الله العظيم كرتون جزيرة الفواكه كان عامل شغل اجمد من كده حتى بشكل الجرافيك البسيط بتاعه

]]> 23282249
Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won't survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. There is only one way to find out.]]> 268 Nicole Kornher-Stace 1618730975 Naj 0 to-read 3.72 2015
author: Nicole Kornher-Stace
name: Naj
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/07/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 22926549 A stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to find the truth before it's too late.

Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand those closest to her led to tragedy. She'll do anything to make this story end differently. But Rebecca doesn’t understand what's happening or who is truly a victim, and now Callie is in terrible danger.

This raw and beautiful story about the intensity of adolescent emotions and the complex identity of a teenage girl looks unflinchingly at how cruelty exists in all of us, and how our worst impulses can estrange us from ourselves - or even save us.]]> 295 Lauren Frankel 055341805X Naj 0 to-read, maybe 3.47 2015
author: Lauren Frankel
name: Naj
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/06/25
shelves: to-read, maybe
review:

]]> 13547180 New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.]]> 250 Susannah Cahalan 145162137X Naj 0 to-read 4.06 2012
author: Susannah Cahalan
name: Naj
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/06/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 2623
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.]]> 544 Charles Dickens 0192833596 Naj 5 classics, twist-of-fate 3.78 1861
author: Charles Dickens
name: Naj
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1861
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2016/06/21
shelves: classics, twist-of-fate
review:

]]> 25166668 Goldschmidt allows us to spy on Bertolt Brecht, as he rewrites his play Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She introduces us to Albert Einstein as he deals with the loss of his first child, Liesel. We meet Robert Oppenheimer scheming against his tutor, Professor Patrick Blackett, at Cambridge University, having fallen in love with Blackett's wife. She tells the story of a female university student starting a love affair with her lecturer paralleled alongside the 'relationship' between Alice and Bob, two imaginary figures that symbolise the theory of relativity.
Goldschmidt's scope can be epic, at other times intimate, providing a forensic examination of relationships and the forces that influence them.]]> 178 Pippa Goldschmidt 1910449121 Naj 0 to-read 3.59 2015
author: Pippa Goldschmidt
name: Naj
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/06/19
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 29216973
Dad rarely mentions her mother, but the second bedroom is still full of her belongings. This summer, while Dad drives the number 300 bus back and forth to Liverpool, Clover will unpack her mother’s things and curate an exhibition �� it’s her turn to surprise him.]]> 400 Carys Bray Naj 0 to-read 4.16 2016
author: Carys Bray
name: Naj
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/06/19
shelves: to-read
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]]> 16033902
When Gabe Hamilton saw Mia Crestwell walk into the ballroom for his hotel’s grand opening, he knew he was going to hell for what he had planned. After all, Mia is his best friend’s little sister. Except she’s not so little anymore. And Gabe has waited a long time to act on his desires.

Gabe has starred in Mia’s fantasies more than once, ever since she was a teenager with a huge crush on her brother’s best friend. So what if Gabe’s fourteen years older? Mia knows he’s way out of her league, but her attraction has only grown stronger with time. She’s an adult now, and there’s no reason not to act on her most secret desires.

As Gabe pulls her into his provocative world, she realizes there’s a lot she doesn’t know about him or how exacting his demands can be. Their relationship is intense and obsessive, but as they cross the line from secret sexual odyssey to something deeper, their affair runs the risk of being exposed—and vulnerable to a betrayal far more intimate than either expected.]]> 396 Maya Banks 0425267040 Naj 1 erotica, dnf, just-why

]]> 3.89 2013
author: Maya Banks
name: Naj
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2013
rating: 1
read at: 2016/01/06
date added: 2016/06/19
shelves: erotica, dnf, just-why
review:
I only read the first 100 pages and decided to put it down for good. Long story short , I find the book to be boring and there is no chemistry between the main characters at all, I love the book cover though.......



]]> 29100930 236 Mohammed Faris 1905837380 Naj 5 like many self improvement books that talk about productivity and tips about how to be productive through your day/months/ years , However this book is targeted towards Muslims mixing the concept of productivity and Faith. The book explains productivity, how to be productive in different aspects of your daily life with respect to " work , body , mind and soul " in addition to how to also work and be productive for your Akhera " the afterlife " which is an important goal among Muslims.
I really loved the organization of the book , It was an easy read, the ideas were well presented. I liked how they presented doodles and diagrams at the end of every chapter as a summary. I admire how the author addressed some misconceptions that are common among some Muslims which affect in their productivity and e.g " not differentiating between Dunia and Hayat al Dunia". In short the book provided what it promised in it's description and title.

]]> 4.49
author: Mohammed Faris
name: Naj
average rating: 4.49
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2016/03/17
date added: 2016/06/19
shelves: 2016-reading-challenge, self-improvement, fab-club-2016
review:
First I would like to say that I really enjoyed reading this book ! I have read the authors blog / Fb page and I really enjoyed productive muslim's Ramadan's calendars, Therefore I was really excited when I got it.
like many self improvement books that talk about productivity and tips about how to be productive through your day/months/ years , However this book is targeted towards Muslims mixing the concept of productivity and Faith. The book explains productivity, how to be productive in different aspects of your daily life with respect to " work , body , mind and soul " in addition to how to also work and be productive for your Akhera " the afterlife " which is an important goal among Muslims.
I really loved the organization of the book , It was an easy read, the ideas were well presented. I liked how they presented doodles and diagrams at the end of every chapter as a summary. I admire how the author addressed some misconceptions that are common among some Muslims which affect in their productivity and e.g " not differentiating between Dunia and Hayat al Dunia". In short the book provided what it promised in it's description and title.


]]> 99199 Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure. This 1000-page effort, which won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, profiles the key players & events that helped shape the American social landscape following WWII but before the civil-rights movement of the 60s reached its climax. Branch then goes a step further, endeavoring to explain how the struggles evolved as they did by probing the influences of the main actors while discussing the manner in which events conspired to create fertile ground for change. Also analyzing the beginnings of black self-consciousness, this book maps the structure of segregation & bigotry in America between '54 & '63. The author considers the constantly changing behavior of those in Washington with regard to the injustice of offical racism operating in many states at this time.
Forerunner: Vernon Johns
Rockefeller and Ebenezer
Niebuhr and the Pool Tables
First Trombone
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
A Taste of the World
The Quickening
Shades of Politics
A Pawn of History
The Kennedy Transition
Baptism on Wheels
The Summer of Freedom Rides
Moses in McComb, King in Kansas City
Almost Christmas in Albany
Hoover's Triangle and King's Machine
The Fireman's Last Reprieve
The Fall of Ole Miss
To Birmingham
Greenwood and Birmingham Jail
The Children's Miracle
Firestorm
The March on Washington
Crossing Over: Nightmares and Dreams]]> 1062 Taylor Branch 0333529456 Naj 0 to-read 4.33 1988
author: Taylor Branch
name: Naj
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/06/16
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 9579634
From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.

Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.]]> 373 Mark Lawrence 0007423292 Naj 0 to-read 3.83 2011
author: Mark Lawrence
name: Naj
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
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Thomas Argyle is the only son of a wayward aristocrat. Charlie Cooper is his best friend. When Thomas finds himself under the boot heel of a sadistic headboy in the treacherous halls of their elite boarding school, he and Charlie begin to question the rules of their society. Then the boys meet Livia, the daughter of a wealthy and powerful family. She leads them to a secret laboratory where they learn that smoke may not be as it seems, and together they set out to uncover the truth about their world.]]> 448 Dan Vyleta 0385540175 Naj 0 maybe, to-read 3.27 2016
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On this literary gonzo trip in which a man of letters finds out, too late, that flirting with extremist politics can have unsavory conequences for one's mind, we encounter the likes of Virgil, the refrigerator (a memorable three-dimesional character) and "Henry IV" the feline aficionado of books. Endlessly resourceful, relentlessly erudite, but always accessible, Sayonara, Gangsters is a unique masterpiece of literary postmodernism that aims to entertain rather than to intimidate.

From the outrageous beginning, which reads like an oblique reference to the war on terror but is no such thing (it was written more than twenty years ago), to the sobering, devastating end, through the lyrical, poignant middle, Takahashi's legendary first novel is candy for your brain. Sayonara, Gangsters is a must-read for all fans of world literature, available for the first time in English.]]> 311 Genichiro Takahashi 1932234055 Naj 0 to-read 3.78 1982
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]]> 25829156 608 Iain Pears 0571301584 Naj 0 to-read 3.92 2015
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Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant's experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character's isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.]]> 132 Shaun Tan Naj 0 to-read 4.33 2007
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]]> 18283207 176 Hiromi Kawakami 1846275083 Naj 0 to-read 3.63 2001
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IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]> 480 Ernest Cline 030788743X Naj 0 to-read 4.21 2011
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]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Naj 0 to-read 4.26 2001
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