![]() ![]() Its scope, its themes and its people all seem to grow richer and deeper in significance with the progress of the story, as it moves to its extraordinary resolution. 'The Narrow Road to the Deep Northis a big, magnificent novel of passion and horror and tragic irony. This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It took more time than usual for me, but I was able to finish this book. I don't mind a little drama, and action in books, but this was more than too much for me. I usually stay away from books, and movies that cause Anger, and or Sadness, because I don't enjoy being either one on any given day. None of the reviews said any thing about Emotional Triggers, because maybe if someone had written a review explaining that this book is nothing like the previous book, and about the emotional triggers I would've thought twice about continuing this series. ![]() This book was so different from the first book that it caught me completely off guard, I wasn't expecting that. This book was brutal on my emotions after Ayla was given/taken away from Alesso, and the abuse/(RAPE) she suffered I had to stop listening on several occasions, because it was just too upsetting, and I just couldn't continue on listening I had to take breaks from listening to this book, and start back listening at a later time, because I was so Emotional. I've not listened to a book like this in a long time. ![]() ![]() WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS: Just let me start by saying that if you're an overly Emotional person, and if Rape, and Abuse cause triggers than I don't recommend that you listen/read this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon enough, though, they find out that it's no ordinary candy shop Mrs. She's just opened a brand new candy shop, and enlists the help of the kids. It's about a group of 5th graders, 3 boys and 1 girl, who become friends with an old lady in town. That major issue aside, I did like the story and the characters. I just felt the author was thisclose to mentioning that she felt her slanty eyes. She doesn't have a mirror, so she feels her face and guesses that she is Asian. ![]() In an even worse example, when the main characters take a magic candy that is supposed to temporarily change their ethnicity as a way to disguise them, one girl becomes Chinese. From the start he unnecessarily describes non-white characters by their race. However, one thing will keep me from being able to recommend this title to others: the author's use of race. I absolutely loved the colorful, glittery cover, and the premise seemed like such fun. I wanted to love this book from the very beginning. ![]() ![]() And it’s about time too: she’s 16 and heading into college. Throughout her life she’s been on medication and in therapy for it, but now her dosage of medicine is falling and fast. So perhaps I judged the book a bit too quickly, but nonetheless it lived up to the expectations I set of it.Įvie has OCD. The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting was the second book I reviewed for this site and I loved it. But with Holly Bourne’s new book, Am I Normal Yet?, I judged it by the author a bit too quickly. Before I go on, if you are a culprit of that, I’d ask you to stop. ![]() Are you one of the people that will look at your pencil case, see how organised it is and say, “Wow, I’m so OCD!”? Or are you someone who gets scared by people playing harmless pranks and you say to that person who just performed that prank on you, “I had a panic attack when you did that!”? For a while now the stigma against mental health and the use of mental health conditions as adjectives has wound me up to the extreme, because it’s so offensive to people who have mental health conditions. ![]() |