aishaayoosh's reviews
127 reviews

I really absolutely loved the original. This one just felt like it was scraping for good material. Still some-what funny but really didn’t tickle as much as book 1.

Good effort though :)

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”

I loved this book... it’s exciting and out of this world. If you’re into mythology, you will love it. Madeline Miller is an exceptional writer. She draws you into this world of nymphs, monsters, gods and goddesses...triumphs, death, power play and romance.


The book makes Circe a contemporary heroine, a feminist who learns the hard way. One word “spellbound”

Well deserved winner of the Booker Prize 2019!

I love Bernadine’s writing ...after reading Mr Loverman, there was no way I was going to turn this book down.

Unconventional, fast paced, beautiful, hilarious...what a ride!!

Read this book! I’m definitely reading it again! What a feel good novel!!!

Depending on where you are in life and what experiences you have been through to get you to your present being ... it’s a book that everyone will reflect on subjectively!

There’s so much wisdom in this book ... and it feels like a kind of spiritual awakening...

The message of “maktoub” keeps repeating itself throughout. An Arabic word describing “fate or destiny written by the one above which is all part of a bigger plan”. I absolutely love this word ... if you truly believe ...it’s almost a solution for all calamity and good tidings

I feel like this book is more relevant now than it has ever been!!

Malorie Blackman has turned history on its head.
She has made it possible to cover the cruelest of offenses in a way that shows the universality of the dark side of humanity.

In the book, the Crosses are the ruling class, are “closest to God,” and are black. The Naughts, on the other hand, are white and despised. The Naughts have been free for years, but segregation and deeply ingrained racism and hatred are running rampant in an increasingly unstable society.

This book really makes you think about the cost of racism and how it affects peoples lives. Racism causes hatred and hatred can kill.

Thought provoking and well written ...on to book two of this sequel

An absorbing, distressing and heartwarming saga of four generations set in the time of the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The story that follows is a deeply wrenching one of migration, circling around themes of in-between identities, belonging and acceptance.

Personal stories coalesce with national histories. We are shown the effects of Japan’s occupation of Korea (which began in 1910), and the after-effects of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, and so on until 1989. You never feel history shoved down your throat but it is there in the background absorbed into character and story.

Koreans have suffered from the discrimination that all immigrants face, plus an added dimension that comes from their having been colonial subjects.

It seems as if the novelist is showing us how migration can fracture a family far beyond a single generation. It is a long book but it is written with such charm you hardly want to put it down.

This is definitely one of my favourite books and I recommend alongside the theme of colonialism spanning generations: Kintu (Uganda) and Home Going (Ghana).

Malorie Blackman truly delivers! Second book in the Noughts and Crosses saga... and still as gripping. The first book really set the scene ...and in the second book the characters are explored in more depth.

The author did write as a foreword that this will be a book about hate and it really is!
I don’t want to write too much because it will all be a spoiler alert

This is a nice light read for anyone interested in economics explained in Layman’s terms.


Tim Harford explains fundamental facts about free markets and decision-making.

These ideas are easy to grasp as he illustrates with an impressive number of examples, some of which include buying second-hand cars, game theory in auction settings, why healthcare works in very different ways among countries, the impact of corruption on growth etc.

This book will not make you into an economics expert, but, as it promises to, it will leave you thinking like an economist.

Let’s just say I walk into a supermarket with a very different view now

What a drag!!

Got half way and lumped it ....

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

It’s a cute book ...and every time you read it, it resonates differently.
A book written with a brilliant imagination and something for both adults and children to ponder over ...