Category: Book Review

  • Critical Essay on Sigfried’s Funny Story

    ‘Sigfried’s Smelly Socks!’ by Len Foley is a funny story for children from 4 to 7 years old. A small boy Siegfried is trying to find out what’s stinking so bad about the book. Every page of it reveals a new answer to the question: where could the bad smell possibly come from? The book…

  • Reflective Essay on Reading ‘The Laramie Project’

    You may ask yourself ‘Why are people the way they are?’ after reading this drama. I know I certainly did after finishing both the book and the movie. It was quite heartbreaking to read about the beating of a human being just because some people didn’t agree with his sexual preferences. I personally find that…

  • Book Review of ‘Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas’: Ethnography of Emotion

    The blossoming flowers of summer, if only they could last through winter we friends who have gathered together, if only we could last through life (p. 109) This verse of the Yolmo “songs of pain” echoes in my mind since reading Robert Desjarlais’ Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal…

  • ‘Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges’ and Abdul Kalam’s Story: Critical Essay

    After the ‘Wings of Fire’, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wrote another autobiography and it starts where the previous book ends. We got various leadership insights from this book also. In his book, ‘Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges’, Kalam gives us his perspective about why he chose to become the President of India in 2002, and…

  • Reading Summary: Elise et Al. “Autoethnography: An Overview”

    Autoethnography approaches research and writing to describe and analyze personal experiences to understand cultural experiences. This treats research as a political, socially just and conscious act. Autoethnography is made up of autobiographies and ethnographers, making it both a process and a product. Crisis of confidence introduced new opportunities to reform social science and reimagine objectives…

  • A Socio-Psychological Take On Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone

    Introduction Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the first installment of one of the most successful movie series ever made. The movie was directed by Chris Columbus, produced by David Heyman and based on J.K Rowling’s book carrying the same title. In this movie, the audience is presented with an imaginary new world: the…

  • Reflective Essay on Sherman Alexie’s Novel ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’

    I am writing this essay for reviewing Sherman Alexie’s novel ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’. This is a book about a fifteen-year-old Indian boy who was born different from the rest of the kids at his school, which leads to bullying of his appearance. He has forty-two teeth, is pretty skinny, and…

  • ‘The Blind Side’: Book Vs Movie

    Literature, a timeless piece of writing bonded together by unspoken words. Animated movies, a reel rolling a flipbook of pictures telling a story. Literature in its purest form is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. Words slowly bind themselves into sentences that create stories, speaking in a universal and infinite…

  • Book Review on ‘The Beatles: The Music Was Never the Same’

    In Marvin Martin’s book, ‘The Beatles: The Music Was Never the Same’, the book is about how the Beatles changed popular music forever. They inspired many people to try and make music of their own. Marvin Martin goes into detail about the band and their music. The members are John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,…

  • The Effects of Refugee Camps

    Refugees are regular people forced to flee from their home country because of the fear of persecution for many different reasons such as war and natural disasters. While fleeing home, their lives turn inside out because of many reasons. Some are war, the fear of persecution, and natural disasters. While finding a home, their lives…