My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 9/10I don’t remember another Turkish writer becoming as famous in Armenia as Elif Shafak, especially considering the historically complex and often strained Armenian-Turkish relationship. So, you can imagine my skepticism when I first started reading The Forty Rules of Love.
I’m a bookworm, and I put together this list of the best gifts for book lovers knowing these are the kinds of presents we genuinely appreciate and actually use. All of these gifts are under $30 — budget-friendly, thoughtful, and smart. So that was idea number one. Now, let’s dive into the full list of…
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 7/10, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is a story about expectations and the illusions that ultimately destroy us. It feels surprisingly contemporary, even though it was written in the 19th century.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2/10 This was the first book I picked up in the Practical Magic series. I decided to read it because I’d heard so much about the classic movie with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman and wanted to read the original story.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2/10 Honestly, I don’t even know what made me pick up the second book in this trilogy, since I didn’t enjoy the first one enough to write about it. I barely remembered any details from it. I found the second book a little more engaging, though it still took me over a month to finish.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 7/10 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play you’ll enjoy as if you were sitting in a theater, watching it live. The book is written in such a way that you can vividly imagine the characters and even sense the emotions they’re expressing.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/10 The book begins with the story of Constance and Hilda, the daughters of Sir Malcolm, and their carefree youth—the time when they were 18 or 19 years old. It describes their relationships with the young men they met during those years. But when World War I broke out, those young men were sent to the front lines, and many of them never came back.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 9/10 Author: Marie CorelliGenre: Detective, Mystic novelPublication: 1895Number of pages: 374 Can the devil be a positive character? This is the question I kept asking myself while reading Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan. It seems like the novel is at the…
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 7/10 Author: Matt HaigGenres: Novel, Science fiction, Domestic FictionPublished: 2013Number of pages: 305 I enjoy reading Matt Haig because he always manages to deliver meaningful messages in the simplest, most unburdening way. The Humans is the third novel I’ve read by Haig, and…
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 10/10 Author: Fyodor DostoyevskiGenres: NovelOriginally Published: 1869Number of pages: 932 Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is one of my most favorite novels, telling the story of a perfect and innocent man living in our non-perfect and definitely non-innocent society. The book touches on themes…