Review On " Twenty Wishes" (Best seller book in 2008)

Have you ever thought what do you want the most in your life? Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life's not what she'd expected--she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness.

Anne Marie and her friends celebrate Valentine's Day together when she thinks about creating a list of things she wants to do but never has.

Anne Marie's list starts with: Find one good thing about life. It includes learning to knit, doing well for someone else, falling in love again. She begins to act on her wishes, and when she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It's a relationship that becomes far more involving than Anne Marie intended.

It also becomes far more important than she ever imagined.

As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learn that wishes can come true--but not necessarily in the way you expect.

My Idea:

it seems to be an interesting story! Although a lot of authors have written about these kinds of subject, it's still attractive! Because it speaks about wishes, dreams and what are beyond! I love the ways human makes their dreams come true! It shows that we are powerful to create whatever we want even the impossibles 'Cuz our soul is divine! that's the fact I appreciate and I believe it's the secret of a real life!

Resources:

http://genregoroundreviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/twenty-wishes-debbie-macomber.html

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=28147497734944

http://community.eharlequin.com/review/twenty-wishes

file:///F:/university/reading/review/9780778325505.htm

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Twenty-Wishes/Debbie-Macomber/e/9780778325505/?tabname=custreview&btob=Y&bnrefer=0-10000-6269-5000000

Review On VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE

Veronica seems to have every thing_youth, attraction,a good job and a devoted family.yet some thing is missing in her life and she decides to commit suicide by taking an overdoes of sleeping tablets. This fails and she wakes up in Villette,a mental hospital. A psychiatrist tells her that she has damaged her heart and has only a few days to live.

We follow Veronika through these concentrated days when she begins to come alive and become interested in the patient who share her life. She then realizes why her former life had no meaning.Veronika at last feels emotion, fear, and even love. Despite or because of her incarceration she blossoms and desperately wants to live and realizes how precious each moment is.

Her fellow patients are a revelation and it poses the question. When the chips are down, who is mad and who is sane in our frenetic lives.

Veronika decides to due is a book that changes your view of life and makes you think, appreciate life and inspires the lives of many,positively,cleverly and entertainingly. this is a book about life and not about death, but the title may put some people of.Veronika represents the thin line between life and death, living life and avoiding life.Veronika Brings for you many massages like life is most important thing that you make it, because it is your choice and your right. One can either live life to the fullest or be a walking zombie as Veronika was. Also it shows importance of life but also it shows some of the society’s affection in people life and difference between the people who are mad and the people who are sane.

Resourses:

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Veronika-Decides-Die-Novel-Redemption-Paulo-Coelho/9780061124266-item.html?pticket=oaelvn45hmqult2d2i2xheroI7q9Ev9iifPDvRSlgejtNv8gTds%3d

http://www.mouthshut.com/product-reviews/Veronika_Decides_to_Die_-_Paulo_Coelho-925039156.html

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Veronika-Decides-Die-Novel-Redemption-Paulo-Coelho/9780061124266-item.html?pticket=oaelvn45hmqult2d2i2xheroI7q9Ev9iifPDvRSlgejtNv8gTds%3d

http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/info_921.asp

Review On Shirley By Charlotte Bronte

It is a novel by charlotte Bronte. She wrote it at 1849 after her great work Jane Eyre. It is a social realistic novel and reflects the social problems of writer's era .Although the industrial revolution and using new inventions and machines gave speed to works but it cause great unemployment for poor population. It also has a tendency to feminine. There are two characters in this story Helston and Shirley Kilder who are in love with Moor Brothers. One of them is a land lord and another is a tutor. It seems that Shirley is more lucky because she is an independent and strong woman and able to accept love. The fate of this Character is like Charlottes two sisters because when she was writing this book Anne died and Emily was dying. In the point of view of most reviewers this story is interesting and because of the way that the writer have looked at real definition of women it is agreeable with Modern society.

Resources:

http://www.amazon.com/Shirley-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-Charlotte/dp/0192833782

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Shirley_Charlotte_Bronte__Review_5523960

http://bcfreviews.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/shirley-by-charlotte-bronte/

Review on the Host (The Best Seller in 2008)

The Host

By: Stephenie Meyer (2008)

According to what I have understood by some reviews, this story is about an alien soul called Wanderer who takes the brain of a human being named Melanie in a way that the alien is freshly implanted into a human host and is looking forward to experiencing life on Earth. The only problem is that Melanie refuses to let Wanderer take her over completely. Melanie has unfinished business and Wanderer cannot help but go along with it. Jared is Melanie’s boyfriend and now they are both in love with him and actually they make a triangle of love involving just two bodies and finally the writer leaves the readers with an open ending.

In my opinion such kinds of stories are a waste of time. What is the use of an imaginary plot that would never happen in reality. Is that something more than entertainment? But still there is something to mention: The emphasis on resisting the body's passionate urges. This is something that the writer wants to mention indirectly and can be considered as a good point in the story.

The Resources:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20197308,00.html

http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/2008/05/_headline_scifi_romance_tale.html
http://www.graemesfantasybookreview.com/2008/05/host-stephenie-meyer-sphere-books.html
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/archive/bookarchive.php/The_Host%3A_A_Novel/13826

Story Two: The Locked Room

The Locked Room

One spring day a young man called Thomson arrived in Suffolk. He wanted to spend some time in a quiet place to read and study so he went to an old house. Every morning he studied and every evening he had a drink with some of the local people. One afternoon, when he was walking he saw a large white stone with a hole in its middle and asked some of the villagers about it but they were unwilling to answer.
A few days later he decided to stay at home to study in the evening .He was alone and felt like to know what the other rooms were like but one of them was locked. He got very interested to open that room and found a key. When he entered he saw just a bed without anything else in it. Suddenly he noticed someone was in the bed. He was very terrified and immediately left the room. He was so afraid that wanted to leave the room on that day but thought may be it would be better to stay and say nothing until the day he was due to go .
While the horse waited outside with his bag he could go upstairs and take one last quick look into the room .This is what happened. He opened the door and saw there was nothing except a pile of clothes .He turned to go but something moved behind him. Actually it was the pile of clothes with a knife stuck into the front of its jacket and dried blood all down its shirt. He rushed out of the door, and then he felt every thing went black.
Later on he found a rich gentleman lived there a long time ago. Once he was attacked by a group of men to steel his money. They held him down on that big stone which he saw and killed him with a knife and that was his ghost who had come back to his bedroom.

Personal opinion

I do not believe in ghost with such freedom when people die. I think they are not free to do every thing or to go every where. I do not believe that even they have the power to frighten people, but this is the case used by writers to amuse their readers.

Story one: Tess of d’Urbervilles

Tess of d’Urbervilles

This story begins with John Durbeyfield, an ordinary countryman who was told to belong to a noble family. Because he had a poor family this fact could influence the prospect of his children, so he had to prove it.
John wanted his daughter, Tess, a beautiful girl to go to Shaston, the neighboring city to the home of Alec d’Urbervilles to talk to him. Instead of paying attention to this fact Alec fell in love with her but Tess was really unwilling .Finally Tess got hurt by him and she lost her virginity.

From this time her whole life changed. She decided to start a new life by working in the farm and helping with harvesting, but the problem was that she was not relaxed in her hometown any more because of all those criticisms by her peers.

Soon after she left there and her family for ever and ended up in a farm-yard and got to know a man named Angel and started working there as a milker, but she was beautiful enough to catch even his attention. Tess was not unwilling to marry her but she was afraid of her past; therefore some days before marriage she wrote a letter and put it in his bedroom, but the fact was that Angel did not have the chance to see the letter. On wedding day everything was ok until they came back from the church and it was when Angel found that letter. He was so surprised that he did not know what to do. It was very difficult for him to face the reality. They were living but with no attention from Angel. Later Angel went to Brazil in order to forget her which was very distressing for Tess but accidentally she met Alec again in the absence of Angel and had no choice except marrying him although she really loved Angel; so she wrote a letter to Brazil and wanted him to come back and forgive her but there was no answer.

A year later Angel founded that he had been too cruel to Tess and came back but it was too late. Tess and Alek had got married. The only thing Tess could do was to revenge on Alek and finally killed him to join Angel but what was the use? Soon she was captured by police.

Personal Comment:

This has always been a question to me; why is beauty damaged by ugliness. Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answer to this question. These things happen and have always happened. But we can not accept that this was Tess's fault and should happen to her.
Perhaps it was to be.