If you love dystopian classics this is a good book for you. It's about a world where the technology and mass media and the government terrorise intellectuals or anyone reading/possessing books. Any involvement with books is considered a crime and your free will, curiosity and intellectual liberation is taken away and replaced by controlled media. 

It's a very short read and the story is fast paced. Totally worth the read. The passages, dialogues are written in prose format at some places like in most of of the classics which was kind of off putting for me because it happened once in a while in tensed situations. However overall it was a easy read with an interesting plotline different from what I usually read.

Even though the audiobook was a rather a long listen I was not bored at all and I found myself wanting more and more. The build of suspense to the climax was so thrilling and amazing. I loved the fact I had to do my own homework and make notes of each character just because I didn't want to lose out on any details. Since it is a story parallaly happening to many characters it was amazing to to find the details that was part of one's story entangling with another character's. 

The performers did a really good job and it was easy to listen to. I loved how they they performed the last episode in first person POV even though in the actual book it was written in 3rd person. Great story for Halloween!

This story gave me effing anxiety and stress that no other story has ever given me. It was too good. You wouldn't even think where this story is heading. Just wow. The performance was so good I had to pauce it to get back out to the reality. 

I am so so glad I read this book, especially the audiobook read by Sissy Spacek. This is definitely has become one of my favourite books!

It was filled with stories about countrymen, the innocence of children, the sins of adults, racism in small towns even back in the days, standing up to what is right, and even the suspense. Since it is set in Alabama the narrator Sissy Spacek's Texas accent made the listening ten times enjoyable! One of my favourite books! One of my favourite audiobooks! 

I totally agree with Woolf's idea that for women to write(create any form of art) she should have money and a room of her own. In other words financial stability and the peace of mind will be required. Not just in Wool's times even now for women to find these two they have to struggle a lot.

The essay was great but it could have denifnietly could have been shorter and less draggy. It became boring toward 2/3 of it. 

Having being recommended by my favourite Booktuber I had too many high hopes for this book. However I didn't want to DNF this book because I thought I need to finish it somehow to give this an honest review. It took me 2 months to finish it. 
The reasons why I didn't like the book were:
1. The story is really slow paced and too long.
2. The characters have the same repetitive name and the same or similar destiny (kind of the main theme so this is not a flaw or anything)
3. There is so much of things happening within a few passage. I was losing interest and concentration.

BUT a lot of people love this so this might be the book for you even it's not for me. I would love to give this book a chance again may be in a couple of years. To see if I change my perspective. However I am glad I finished the whole book!

If you wanna read about Iran but not in a too political setting this is a great book to read! This speaks about a lot of topics exile and bring disoriented and being homosexual in a Iranian family, the social and political injustice and the freedom of speech and the freedom of living. The greatest thing about it is all these topics are covered within a generational plotline of fiction. 

Bright is a series of urban vignettes surrounding 5 years old Kampong, a boy born to a working class family in a small community in Thailand. Due to his parents' separation, he gets partially abandoned by the parents. Even though both the mother and the father pays him visits and still are in his life, he learns to live among the families in the community. His neighbor's and friends all takes turns in providing him a roof and food. He quickly adapts to the new life among the community. The small vignettes includes of small stories in the neighborhood surrounding him. 
I became really sad at times when he yearns for the parents because no matter how much he enjoyed his life among his friends and the other adults in the neighborhood, he is still a 5 year old boy wanting to have his parents. However overall, this has being a happy read and it was full of funny stories of how kids play and how they think. 

My first read for the August for the women in translation month. A but weird but mostly funny and easy to read. The book is separated into a several forms of geometric properties such as The Hyperbolics,The parabolics, The circulars...etc. which I know sound too mathematical for a book but it all makes sense in terms of the human nature of the protagonist. Like the hyperbole he exaggerates his talks and create stories to auction his collectables. He considers himself the word's best auctioneer because he can sell anything including his teeth. His ability is storytelling. It was a fun read. Highly enjoyable!