My new year's resolution for 2014 is to read more books. I've read some awesome books last year. Can't wait to discover more stories. Here are some book review.
NON FICTION
1) Dispatches from the Edge A Memoir of War and Survival by Anderson Cooper
Favorite Line from the book: "Hope is not a Plan", "There is no dignity in drowning, no silent succumbing to the water's ebb and flow", "War is hell, butt hell it's also an opportunity".
-I know Anderson Cooper as a private cable news anchor. In his memoir, he reveals his tragic family story. His father died when he was 10. His brother jump from the family's penthouse in front of his mother. A Yale graduate can't find an entry level job. He started his career as a war correspondent using a fake press pass. He went to different war and disasters. He seems strong but admits he cried at some moments while he is in field seeing dead bodies, explosions and disasters. He always tell the truth, even if it's ugly.
This is a book that made me see reality... the harsh reality. The war that happened that I didn't heard before. The sufferings, conditions, thoughts of other people is worth reading. Anderson Cooper may be born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he is willing to use all his energy to be with other people, mostly in difficult situations, to comfort, help and share their stories to ordinary people like us.
RATING: 5 out of 5
2) Quiet The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Favorite Line from the book: “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.” , “Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
RATING: 4 out of 5
FICTION
1) Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Favorite Line from the book: “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”, “I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
- A tragic ending. Park is my ideal guy. In this story "the more you hate the more you love" is true.
This is a modern Romeo and Juliet.
RATING: 4 out 5
2) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Hazel is a 16 year old girl with stage IV thyroid cancer, and has been living with an oxygen tank since she was first diagnosed at 12. She realizes she is going to die, but she is on a drug that is keeping the tumors at bay. At a support group meeting she meets hottie Augustus Waters, who is in remission. They immediately hit it off and change each others lives drastically.
To be continued...
This is a book that made me see reality... the harsh reality. The war that happened that I didn't heard before. The sufferings, conditions, thoughts of other people is worth reading. Anderson Cooper may be born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he is willing to use all his energy to be with other people, mostly in difficult situations, to comfort, help and share their stories to ordinary people like us.
RATING: 5 out of 5
2) Quiet The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Favorite Line from the book: “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.” , “Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
RATING: 4 out of 5
FICTION
1) Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Favorite Line from the book: “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”, “I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
- A tragic ending. Park is my ideal guy. In this story "the more you hate the more you love" is true.
This is a modern Romeo and Juliet.
RATING: 4 out 5
2) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Hazel is a 16 year old girl with stage IV thyroid cancer, and has been living with an oxygen tank since she was first diagnosed at 12. She realizes she is going to die, but she is on a drug that is keeping the tumors at bay. At a support group meeting she meets hottie Augustus Waters, who is in remission. They immediately hit it off and change each others lives drastically.
To be continued...
