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BOOK REVIEW: THE RUNAWAYS BY FATIMA BHUTTO

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"Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number...," P.B Shelley  The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto is a fiction novel. It was published in 2018. It's a powerful novel and an excellent read. It has a complex mixture of ideas on, self-destruction, betrayal, loneliness, national, identity, love, sexuality, politics, social media, violence, and religion.   The Runaways gives a glimpse of the bitter reality that exists near us, in this modern world. The story revolves around Three main characters, Anita Rose, Sunny, and Monty. Slowly gradually, bitter reality shows up why are all of them running away from their lives? It made me question if life's suffering is never ending why do we want to run away from them?  Suffering's labyrinth have no way out. The characters run away down the wrong path and also never get rid of their past till the end. The central theme of the novel is the radicalization of young minds. It was my first time to read such a topic and know wha...

BOOK REVIEW: LETTERS TO THE LOST

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-Can you fall in love with someone you've never met?  Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer. It's my new favorite book of 2022. It's an intriguing, thrilling, thoughtful, painful, and same time hopeful novel. Young Adult Fiction for everyone to read. It's a novel about loss. Those who lost people closer will fall apart while reading it, a mixture of pain and love. Letters to the lost is a story of a girl named Juliet, and a boy named Declan, who became friends through letters. Not knowing their real identities. Through letters and emails sharing their secrets and know each other well. While all opposite in real, at first. Friendship turned into love over time. Hard for them to adjust to reality. A serious read yet a beautiful ride on a roller coaster of emotions.  "We're all united by grief, and somehow divided by the same thing."  I felt Juliet and Declan more than I can write it. The way writer Brigid Kemmerer, include famous poems and songs to give the...

BOOK REVIEW: THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN

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 BOOK REVIEW: THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN  The Five People You Meet In Heaven is psychological fiction novel by Mitch Albom. It is the sweetest book l ever read. It is about life and life after death, how both are intertwined with each other. This book taught some big lessons about life, it can be a life-changer book for some. Each chapter has a meaningful quote in it, that's why a philosophical fiction read called to it.  Mitch Albom's way of writing is brilliant and mesmerizing. It feels like grandparents tell stories to their grandchildren. The story goes smoothly, hard to put it down. Heaven on earth or earth in heaven. Five people are connected with five lessons that protagonist learns about in heaven. How each event of life is connected with another? How lost love can be found? How does sacrifice need to be done? This book will give you answers to such questions and many more.  However, l should mention the way it left affects the memory of the reader. I...

BOOK REVIEW: DA VINCI CODE BY DAN BROWN

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BOOK REVIEW: DA VINCI CODE BY DAN BROWN ”Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?” -Dan Brown DA VINCI CODE is an intriguing novel by Dan Brown. It is a mind-boggling and exhaustively page-turner fictional history book. It is one of the most controversial books ever written in history. As it light-up the considerable possibilities against religious history, yet a well-detailed researched work counted in fiction. This novel followed the author's earlier book (Angles and Demons). It explores the different dimensions that people are not allowed to even think about.  After reading Da Vinci Code, I can now see why millions of copies were sold rapidly. It grips you from the very first page and hangs you over a cliff at the end of every chapter. Each chapter ends with suspense and thriller to crave for what will happen next. It's likely to experience as a reader is taken in a spaceship on an adventure. It is also a treasure quest to me where I don't get m...

MOVIE REVIEW: YOU WON'T BE ALONE

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  YOU WON'T BE ALONE Rated: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -Haunting, heartbreaking, existential film, simply a Masterpiece.  -Written and directed by Goran Stolevski. He crafted brilliantly a horror film about witches of the 19th Century. His imaginative, creative film left effects on the audience.  -Plot: It's the story of a girl who was transferred into a witch by an ancient witch. Old Witch never left her alone, always with her since childhood. A girl who becomes a witch learned about body-switching talent. She killed people and got their bodies and lived their lives. By doing that she tried to live different types of human lives. She wanted to learn how to be a human. Does she belong to human beings or a witch? That's a confusing question for her. When I have never watched such a film before about witches. It's story, acting and sound are so perfect. I would recommend watching this exceptional film.  🚫: It contains nude scenes and violent expressions that disturbed the mind. Also, it i...

BOOK REVIEW: GURU DUTT: AN UNFINISHED STORY

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BOOK REPRESENTS THE RICHLY LIFE ACCOUNT OF TROUBLED INDIAN DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, AND ACTOR GURU DUTT "I am not dissatisfied with life,  I am dissatisfied within myself." -Guru Dutt Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story is a deeply affecting biography of film director Guru Dutt. It never left chances to leave the effects on the reader's mind. Psychologically depressed life of Guru Dutt, yet same time a legend who gave birth to some artistic films also. The book represents the richly life account of troubled Indian Director, producer, and actor Guru Dutt from his birth in 1925 to his death in 1964.            Yasser Usman wrote the biography in a unique way that readers don't want to end the book. It was the saddest feeling that my most loved book finished within two weeks. Although the book is deep all in one accessible portrait of legendary personality, Guru Dutt. It is composed of the author's interviews and extensively quoting from three books; My Son Guru Du...

MOVIE REVIEW: INCENDIES (2010)

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MOVIE REVIEW: INCENDIES (2010) Genre: Drama/Mystery Language: French and Arabic w/English Subtitles.  It's a masterpiece movie. A French-language film by Canadian director  Denis Villeneuve. Its dynamite plot, tremendous powers, discrimination, and a few more themes, make it the most illuminating best film for ages. This is what shows the greatness of the director to a cinephile. Denis Villeneuve did perfect justice to the image, word, and sound of cinematography. He maintained a balancing act, and storyline. The beginning is the end, and the end was the beginning. It gives goosebumps. Simply, it's a bone-ratting film. It takes courage to see the end.  A story of woman Nawal  Marwan, who left Testamentary for her twin children in two letters. One for their father who was dead, another for their brother they didn't know anything about. It captures the hell out of the living thing. It's the ending that Incendies leaves the audience breathless, proving to be a masterpie...