Reader & Dreamer

I really enjoyed this book.
It's true that Virginia Woolf's writing style is sometimes a little hard and confusing, It required me to read and re-read several parts to understand, but very deep and enjoyable when I started to get it.
there is no plot to this story, it is simply a look inside the minds of the characters and their judgments of themselves and those around them.
it is a very unique read, I highly recommend it.

that was an Amazing incredible read.
In a future America, books are banned and "firemen" burn any that are found.
Media took over, and all source of information, positive information was provided through Wall-size television screens. Meanwhile, a war was coming but no one thinks will affect them in anyway.

Guy Montag, a fireman, who enjoyed burning books and the houses of their owners, however, he begins to question their value, and secretly steals and hides them. he figured that books make him think and question his whole life, his job, his love for his wife, the world..
Montag wonders why books are thought to be so dangerous and why some people are so loyal to them. What power lies in books? , he get so obsessed about it all, trying to find answers, he finds himself on the other side of the law willing to risk everything to save the books he once was paid to burn. finally joining a group of intellectuals who dedicate themselves to build a literate and cultural society after the war.

I enjoyed this book so very much, it makes you think, the kind of book Guy Mon­tag definitely had to burn, but well! 1984 is still my favorite dystobian fiction.

I really enjoyed this book, it was amazing and The characters were impressive.
i cried at the end, i didn't at all expect that ending.

i finished this over a long period of time, There’s something about Russian Literature and length.
But it was masterfully written and mesmerising. Once I have started the novel, I was transported into a complex world that awed me and broke my heart.

Anna, the main character, left a cold marriage with the successful man (Alexey Alexandrovitch) for a passionate affair with a young army officer (Count Vronsky) whom she loved so much and had a child with him, that separated her from the son she had with her husband, she was sad but she was also happy, and after fell into guilt, jealousy, and finally death.
we also follow the stories of Anna's brother Stiva, and his wife Dolly, Dolly's sister Kitty and her amazing husband Levin.
reading this you'd learn a lot about love and about life.

I LOVED this book. Tolstoy is a genius.

Everyone wants to know who Jacob is, and everyone has an opinion on him.
There’s little plot in Jacob’s Room, it's more of a character study, The story is like following Jacob around a series of impressions of this or that observer (his mother, his lovers and his friends), the place being this or that place and time, his childhood, his college days at Cambridge and his travels, ending with his death in WWI.

i enjoyed it, Virginia's style of writing is Beautiful! ♥

a mesmerising read from start to finish, I did enjoy it, very.

اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْنِي بالقُرْءَانِ وَاجْعَلهُ لِي إِمَاماً وَنُوراً وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً *

اللَّهُمَّ ذَكِّرْنِي مِنْهُ مَانَسِيتُ وَعَلِّمْنِي مِنْهُ مَاجَهِلْتُ وَارْزُقْنِي تِلاَوَتَهُ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ وَأَطْرَافَ النَّهَارِ وَاجْعَلْهُ لِي حُجَّةً يَارَبَّ العَالَمِينَ *

اللَّهُمَّ أَصْلِحْ لِي دِينِي الَّذِي هُوَ عِصْمَةُ أَمْرِي، وَأَصْلِحْ لِي دُنْيَايَ الَّتِي فِيهَا مَعَاشِي، وَأَصْلِحْ لِي آخِرَتِي الَّتِي فِيهَا مَعَادِي، وَاجْعَلِ الحَيَاةَ زِيَادَةً لِي فِي كُلِّ خَيْرٍ وَاجْعَلِ المَوْتَ رَاحَةً لِي مِنْ كُلِّ شَرٍّ *

اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ خَيْرَ عُمْرِي آخِرَهُ وَخَيْرَ عَمَلِي خَوَاتِمَهُ وَخَيْرَ أَيَّامِي يَوْمَ أَلْقَاكَ فِيهِ *

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ عِيشَةً هَنِيَّةً وَمِيتَةً سَوِيَّةً وَمَرَدًّا غَيْرَ مُخْزٍ وَلاَ فَاضِحٍ *

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ خَيْرَ المَسْأَلةِ وَخَيْرَ الدُّعَاءِ وَخَيْرَ النَّجَاحِ وَخَيْرَ العِلْمِ وَخَيْرَ العَمَلِ وَخَيْرَ الثَّوَابِ وَخَيْرَ الحَيَاةِ وَخيْرَ المَمَاتِ وَثَبِّتْنِي وَثَقِّلْ مَوَازِينِي وَحَقِّقْ إِيمَانِي وَارْفَعْ دَرَجَتِي وَتَقَبَّلْ صَلاَتِي وَاغْفِرْ خَطِيئَاتِي وَأَسْأَلُكَ العُلَا مِنَ الجَنَّةِ *

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ مُوجِبَاتِ رَحْمَتِكَ وَعَزَائِمِ مَغْفِرَتِكَ وَالسَّلاَمَةَ مِنْ كُلِّ إِثْمٍ وَالغَنِيمَةَ مِنْ كُلِّ بِرٍّ وَالفَوْزَ بِالجَنَّةِ وَالنَّجَاةَ مِنَ النَّارِ *

اللَّهُمَّ أَحْسِنْ عَاقِبَتَنَا فِي الأُمُورِ كُلِّهَا، وَأجِرْنَا مِنْ خِزْيِ الدُّنْيَا وَعَذَابِ الآخِرَةِ *

اللَّهُمَّ اقْسِمْ لَنَا مِنْ خَشْيَتِكَ مَاتَحُولُ بِهِ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ مَعْصِيَتِكَ وَمِنْ طَاعَتِكَ مَاتُبَلِّغُنَا بِهَا جَنَّتَكَ وَمِنَ اليَقِينِ مَاتُهَوِّنُ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا مَصَائِبَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَتِّعْنَا بِأَسْمَاعِنَا وَأَبْصَارِنَا وَقُوَّتِنَا مَاأَحْيَيْتَنَا وَاجْعَلْهُ الوَارِثَ مِنَّا وَاجْعَلْ ثَأْرَنَا عَلَى مَنْ ظَلَمَنَا وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى مَنْ عَادَانَا وَلاَ تجْعَلْ مُصِيبَتَنَا فِي دِينِنَا وَلاَ تَجْعَلِ الدُّنْيَا أَكْبَرَ هَمِّنَا وَلَا مَبْلَغَ عِلْمِنَا وَلاَ تُسَلِّطْ عَلَيْنَا مَنْ لَا يَرْحَمُنَا *

اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَدَعْ لَنَا ذَنْبًا إِلَّا غَفَرْتَهُ وَلَا هَمَّا إِلَّا فَرَّجْتَهُ وَلَا دَيْنًا إِلَّا قَضَيْتَهُ وَلَا حَاجَةً مِنْ حَوَائِجِ الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ إِلَّا قَضَيْتَهَا يَاأَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ *

رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ وَصَلَّ اللهُ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا وَنَبِيِّنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَأَصْحَابِهِ الأَخْيَارِ وَسَلَّمَ تَسْلِيمًا كَثِيراً.

one of the greatest fantasy fiction series ever written ♥

Absolutely loved this book.
There were a lot of interesting historical facts, symbols interpretations, the integration of art and architecture. I loved it.

it’s not a love story at all. It’s a story about an obsession and lust disguised as love.

in short, Florentino Ariza *falls in love* with Fermina Daza (from a distance), they exchange some letters and dried flowers, Fermina suddenly breaks away and marries a promising young doctor and they are happy. Florentino proceeds to have countless affairs (including a teenager while he was in his seventies !!! the girl was 14 years old !!!!!!! and he was meant to be the guardian of and who kills herself because of him, "this is really creppy and fucked up!!") while continuing to have a crazy obsession for Fermina. Fifty years later, her husband dies. Florentino shows up to tell her that he still Loves her, she rejects him, after a couple of years she falls for him, they runaway together and he is happy. The end

I did not find Florentino Ariza's lifelong devotion to Fermina Daza to be romantic at all, it was pathetic. I found all of major characters unlikable but i hated Florentino the most, a total creep!
and the book excused too much horrible behaviour all in the name of "love.", it annoyed and irritated me!

One of those books that everyone needs to read.
This was a book I had been wanting and highly interested to read since I read 1984 by George Orwell.
~ Imagine a world without art, literature and history , without religion and science, without love, without war, crime, pain or sadness, and without individual thoughts.
Humans are grown inside bottles, brainwashed and divided into many classes: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.
Alphas are smart, strong and tall. Epsilons are stupid, ugly and short.
Sex is casual and Everyone belongs to everyone else.
God isn't needed.
Everyone is Happy, and when feeling low, one should take some Soma (a recreational drug) to escape reality and feel better.
It is a bit disturbing and terrifying! It seems we are getting closer and closer to the kind of "happy life" that Huxley pictured in his novel.

~ Along with 1984, i highly recommend this book.

Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak was not one of those books which I would usually have picked up myself if not for the book club read, but now i'am so glad it was picked and that i had the chance to read it.
Each and every word is a quotation, worthy of sharing to the world.
This is a book with a story within a story and Each chapter is told from the view point of one of its many characters.
~ Ella Rubinstein is a married woman with 3 children, a peaceful life, but something is missing in her life and her relationship with her husband. She takes a job as a reader and her first assignment is to read and review a novel by an author called, Aziz Z. Zahara.
~ the story of the book 'Sweet Blasphemy' Ella Reads is about the Sufi Rumi, whose life changed completely when he meets the dervish Shams of Tabriz and his forty rules of love.
Rumi and Shams become great companions, almost inseparable, and this upsets those close to Rumi.
~ Ella decides to find out more about the author and her life will never be the same again after that.

I enjoyed reading this book ♥ it was really amazing.

a story of a young woman who has to choose between duty to her family and the potential for a better life abroad with her lover.

A king searching to find how he can learn to do the right thing at the right time, who were the right people to listen to, and what was the most important thing to do.
The answer comes to him in a very surprising way.

Finally !!! I read this over such a long period of time, but i really enjoyed it !
This book was Clever, full of ideas, and philosophies. Dostoevsky's characters and thoughts are very fascinating. one of the greatest books ever written, I'am Sure.
in short, the story is about The idiot, a very kind but selfless, naive man, and his doomed attempt to fit into society, love and life.
Dostoyevsky is a genius ♥
I highly recommend this book without hesitation. READ IT !

After this re-read, I actually Cried when I finished. ♥
it is still just as Great as it was the first time I read it.