Book Reviews

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon- Book Review

Everything, Everything (novel) - Wikipedia


 Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon - Book Review

Title: Everything, Everything

Author: Nicola Yoon

Publisher: Ember

Publish Date: September 1 2015 

Rating: 4/5

Summary: Madeline F. Whittier hasn't left her house in seventeen years. She's also been alive for about that long. Madeline has a disease called SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency), which basically makes her allergic to the whole world. The only people she sees in-person are her mother, who's a doctor, and her daytime nurse Carla. But one day, a family moves in next door, and there's a boy named Olly. Madeline and Olly trade emails and chat messages, and feelings emerge, but they can't meet....


**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie- Book Review

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - Book Review

Title: Murder on the Orient Express

Author: Agatha Christie

Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher

Publish Date: 2011 (Original: 1934) 

Rating: 4.8/5

Summary: Just after midnight, the Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, one passenger is found dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozed times and the door locked from the inside. The great detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among his fellow passengers...

**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.**

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir- Book Review

Project Hail Mary: A Novel: Weir, Andy: 9780593135204: Amazon.com: Books

 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - Book Review


Project Hail Mary is the latest book by Andy Weir (author ofThe Martian), and honestly it's the best sci-fi book I've ever read in my life till now. Like The Martian , it's about a scientist stranded alone in space without his teammates, and there's a whole lot of math and science involved in solving the problem. However, the man has complete amnesia- he doesn't know his name, he doesn't know he's on a spaceship, and he does n't know he's light-years away from any other human being. However, he's on a suicide mission, and he's the only person that can save the Earth and all the humans in it from utter destruction.
In this excellent combination of The Martian and Interstellar containing weird red lines, weird metals, and a five-digit clock, Andy Weir manages to deliver an excellent, spectacular story interwoven with survival, adventure, and a LOT of nerdy science.

**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.**


 

Friday, December 23, 2022

Feed by M. T. Anderson- Book Review

 Feed by MT Anderson - Book Review


Feed by MT Anderson, published in 2002, is a sci-fi/dystopian novel that eerily predicted the rise of the algorithmic advertisement system. It is set in a world where n early everyone has computer chips implanted in their brain that link the Internet (they call it the 'feed') directly to their brain and create a permanent augmented reality around them. It seems like a massive utopia- after all, you can do almost anything with a single thought, no need to type. However, that's not all there is to this new world...

**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.**


 

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Reality Check- A short story

Reality Check

A story by DJ

A Monster Calls - Rotten Tomatoes

This story is based off of the novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, which I have reviewed previously.

The link to my review of A Monster Calls is here:

https://djsstories17.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-monster-calls-by-patrick-ness-book.html


Sunday, December 11, 2022

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin- Book Review

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin- Book Review

The Westing Game: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition: Raskin, Ellen: 9780451480989: Amazon.com: Books



The Westing Game is a short and quick puzzle mystery novel by Ellen Raskin. The back-cover summary goes thus:  
"A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, on things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won't stop him from playing one last game! "

This Newbery Medal-winning book is written from a third-person omniscient narrator who immediately introduces that Barney Northrup isn't a real person. The story has a large cast of sixteen main characters who are just about all the characters in the story (there are very few side characters).



**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.**