Author - Emma Donoghue No. of Pages - 336 Year of Publication - 2010 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ One of the many things that this book taught me is that—it is not important to categorize books in genres. This book wasn’t a romance quite evidently. It contained emotions and sentiments showcasing the mother-son relationship in a poignant manner along with thrills throughout the plot but yet, I cannot label it as a 'thriller'. I have a habit of reading the book and then watching its movie adaptation to compare them and 99.9% times, I prefer the book over the movie. No big discovery, right? But something really strange happened in case of this book—I liked the movie a little bit more than the book. I know many of you might say that it cannot happen and I totally agreed with it till I watched the adaptation of this book. To be honest, I didn’t get too emotional while reading the book but while watching the movie, there were few moments when my eyes were moist. It might b
Author - John Green Genre - Young-Adult No. of Pages - 304 Year of Publication - 2017 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ Finally, that I have got my reading appetite back, how could I not read the latest John Green novel? I certainly had to. To be very honest, this book confused me a bit. If I look into the detailed and rather heart-felt description of the thoughts of an anxiety patient, Aza Holmes (the protagonist), I feel Green has given his best to it. No doubt, I could very well relate at some points because I also suffer from mild OCD symptoms. To a normal person, Aza might seem to be very crazy, but I could understand her thoughts and they didn't seem unnatural at all (even though bizarre). That is where Green never fails, the charactersq he creates are very relatable and mostly adorable, even though flawed in numerous ways. Aza's illness keeps on worsening throughout the book. At one point I felt like she would commit suicide and I so not wanted this to happen. For once, I want