Odd ones on the left.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Rating: 2/5
Henry Chinaski works at a post office but he doesn’t want to. So he resorts to sleeping with women, betting on horses and just not cooperating with everyone. This isn’t a happily-ever-after or optimistic book. It’s a book about the low points of life and how gruelling and pointless everything can seem.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: C. Robert Cargill
Rating: 2/5
A story about a robot trying to find the meaning of life, the universe and everything. (Okay, that’s slightly exaggerated.) Too bad it was done in such a boring way.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Rating: 3/5
Ham on Rye is the coming-of-age story of Henry Chinaski during the Great Depression, from his abusive childhood to his acne-filled high school years and college years featuring lots of violence and alcohol.
Spoilers ahead.
My sister and I wanted to resurrect (ha, get the reference?) our commentary on literary works. So without further ado, our discussion on Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Spoilers ahead.
Continue reading “Salty Reviews: Fantastic Beasts (The Crimes of Grindelwald)”
Author: Mark Mathabane
Rating: 4/5
This is an autobiography about life in the apartheid in South Africa. It weaves themes of racism, cultural heritage, fear, unfairness and poverty amongst others into one solid, compelling and honest narrative. It’s a story of how a boy with only a want to survive the day became a man who wanted to ignite a change and carve a new path for himself.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak
Rating: 2/5
It’s all in the title really.
Spoilers ahead.
Continue reading “They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan”
Author: Isabel Allende
Rating: 4/5
The House of the Spirits is an epic novel following three generations of the Trueba family amidst political instability and turmoil. It encapsulates almost every theme you can think of–love, family, friendship, revenge–the list goes on.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Ishmael Beah
Rating: 2/5
The devastating and moving story of a child soldier amidst the civil war of Sierra Leone.
Spoilers ahead.
Continue reading “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rating: 3/5
An anthology of twelve short stories about Nigerian women and their everyday struggles, the plight of Nigerian immigrants in the States as well as delving into other themes such as warfare, marriage and relationships.
Spoilers ahead.
Author: Craig Silvey
Rating: 4/5
Charles “Charlie” Bucktin is a bookish almost-fourteen-year-old, completely devoid of any mishaps or misadventures. When Jasper Jones comes knocking at his window one night and shows him the dead body of Laura Wishart, everything changes.
Spoilers ahead.
Earnestly Eccentric 