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The Awakening  By Kate Chopin  Rating: 4/5  Genres : Classics, Sexuality, Novel Edna is a married woman to a loving and devoted husband with children that fill her life. She is expected to take care of the basic responsibilities of a wife and mother by her husband but she feels a void within herself with her well set family life. She yearns for an all encompassing romance that stirs her soul and wants to follow the guidance of her own self rather than listen to those around her - become a trailblazer and a rebel so to speak. As the change slowly starts seeping into her thoughts and actions, her husband becomes disturbed and rightly concerned. He tries to force her into the old ways but she only breaks free.  She has multiple suitors to keep company in the absence of her always working husband. One of them is Robert whom she falls deeply for but is elusive for her to capture. The other is a man with a notorious reputation of beguiling ladies and she has no...

Notes on an Execution  By Danya Kukafka  Rating : 4.5/5  Genres : Execution, Murder Trial, Novel, 2022-read I am very impressed with the crisp and short handed writing style of the author. This happens to be her second work and it doesn't feel amateurish at all. The plot is well developed and presented from different perspectives/angles with the narrative flying back and forth in time and space. The question mainly addressed is about choices a soul/person makes - what if one has no control over them and the person who does bad things yearns for a different reality where he is good, his life was good and he didn't have to bear the guilt of his impulsive actions? We should ask ourselves if we really want to punish a child for the mistakes his parents did and his future actions/behavior/violence is a product of such abuse which happened to him when he had no say/control over it?  Told from the point of the murderer who desperately wants to escape execution a...

Foundation's Edge  By Issac Asimov Rating 5/5  Genres : Science fiction, 2022-read,classics. Marvelous! A work of pure genius!! Issac Asimov in my opinion remains the true master and peerless genius of the science fiction genre. I savored every drop of this tasty and twisty nectar that is loaded with a bountiful of surprises and wit. This book is the fourth in the Foundation book series by Issac Asimov and all of them are a huge hit. This book follows the establishment of peace and restoration of sanguinity to the universe after the Mule has been vanquished. It portrays a mind game between forces and people controlling them who are one step ahead the other- holding one knife behind the back of the other.. A little background to the foundation series and this book. Human life which has originated on earth spread far and wide colonizing millions of planets in the universe. Hari Seldon was a psychohistorian who through several algorithms and analytical estimates predi...