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 The Woman in Me  By Britney Spears  Published Year : 2023 October  Page Count: 161 pages Medium Used : Kindle PW Genre : Contemporary, Memoir, Mental Illness, Conservatorship, 2023-read.  Rating : 5/5🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wow. What a book! Britney Spears has very deftly channeled her inner emotional voice into words and touched the very core of my soul with her narrative. Her life has been - for a lack of better word - wasted and misappropriated.  She has remained a naive, gullible and vulnerable child all through - but also a bit over the top paranoid and parochial. She just looked at things that were happening to her from her point of view and not how her actions might have warranted those measures to be taken. She just lacked the perspective. She was a perfect abuse material - wanting to please everyone, wanting to be perfect all the time, trying to shut out the overwhelming negative media coverage by hiding in her mansion etc. She was very passive and didn't rais...

 The Secret Scripture  By Sébastien Barry Year Published: 2008 Page count : 312  Medium used : Paperback  Genre : Suspense, Fiction, Mental Health, WW2. Rating : 3.5/5 ⭐⭐⭐🖖 I am confounded by this book. What the hell is going on. What the heck is the truth and what ain't? There are two versions to an old woman's past - one is too fantastic to believe and the other too contradictory to her memories that it must be a convenient and false fabrication.  A young girl,Roseanne,is made to suffer for the mistakes of her parents - a father whom she adored but unknown to herself, is a nightmare policeman for his own countrymen, her eerie,silent and withdrawn mother who is unquestionably committed to a mental asylum like the girl herself would later be. Roseanne is married to a man whom she deeply loves, Tom McNealty, who later annuls their marriage so that he could marry again on the pretext that she is a "nymphomaniac". She has no support, she has no proof. She has lite...

 Throne of Glass  By Sarah J Mass  Published year : 2012  Page count : 406  Medium used : Paperback  Genre : Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Multiverse, Magic, Mystery,Thriller. Rating : 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A wonderful and eye opening read. Makes us look around, question and ponder if what meets the eye is what truly is! If what we see and perceive is not an illusion behind which there exists, a scary reality waiting to pounce upon and take over! What if there are portals to other worlds or universes that can be controlled and manipulated by entities - not entirely good or bad - which can summon dangerous beings into ours and we need a shield of protection against defeat. Very thoughtful and ingenious work by Miss Sarah J Maas. Highly recommend to all scifi lovers and magic lovers out there!  Celaena Sardothien is the best assassin in all the empire of Eurilea. She is condemned to suffer the fate of a slave in the salt mines of Endovier. She is rescued b...

Girl in Pieces By Kathleen Glasgow Published Year : 2016 Page Count : 400 pages Medium : Paperback Genre : Psychological Fiction,Self Harm, Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse, Addiction, 2023-read. Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Take  I finished this book with a smile playing on my lips, silent tears of happiness and joy streaming down my cheek. I wasn’t prepared for this emotional roller coaster. I had to take occasional breaks to handle the turmoil this story was stirring in me. I got very invested in the character and the narrative is vivid, cinematic,very descriptive. The story focuses on the lives of people who feel overwhelming emotional disappointments and powerless to handle them, inflict self harm in the form of cutting or burning themselves. This act makes them forget the pain and gives them a high for a while. This story holds a candle of hope for people going through similar experiences and shows them that there can be a silver lining behind the obstructing void and darkness. I found i...

  The The Institute By Stephen King Published Year : 2019 Page Count : 570 Medium : Paperback Genre : Contemporary, Science Fiction, Horror, Paranormal Fiction, Thriller, Children, Child Abuse, Child experiments,2023-read. Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantabulous. Mind blowing. Very heart warming and refreshing despite dealing in subjects of child abuse and exploitation. Reinstates Stephen King as a master story teller and a genius in orchestrating a spectacular thriller. He has an uncanny ability to channel the inner voices of children and not only make the reader empathize with them but root for them from the bottom of their heart. This is a book with children in lead characters. They do some brave, unbelievable,fantastic feats and as surreal as they might be, the story is so engrossing, magical – we believe in them anyway. Children who are born with some special capabilities are kidnapped and secreted away in a remote place called the Institute. They are fed on drugs to boost their psychi...

A Court of Thorns and Roses By Sarah J Mass ( 2015) Series : A Court of Thorns and Roses#1 Published : 2015 Genre : Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Faeries, Mortality. Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a brilliant book! What a captivating read! Sarah J Maas has propelled herself into the cohort of my favorite authors with this shining jewel. Never have I been so shocked out of my wits or had my breath completely knocked out. I just couldn’t get through to the next page without gasping and my heart pounding. Humans. Magical Faeries. Evil witches. Spellbinding potions. Ancient curses. Eternal love. Irresistible attraction and seduction. Life altering games. What is there not to like ? What is there not to swoon over? There is not a ounce of boredom in this triangle love story and battle for freedom. This is fantasy at its best! A war almost 500 years ago between faeries and humans .. their lands segregated to east and west. Fearies are split into seven kingdoms each ruled by a high lord. A hundred years ...

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood Published Year: 2021 Page Count : 315 (Paperback) Genre : Romance, Humor, Young Adult, Chick-Lit, Contemporary Fiction, RomCom,2023-read. My Rating : 3/5 ⭐⭐⭐ Other Tags: New York Times Best Seller, Tik Tok Sensation. Brief Outline This is the story of love that develops between a PhD student Olive and a biology professor Adam at Stanford. Adam has a reputation for being a moody, unfriendly and highly extracting professor to students - in short, a dick. Olive is a regular, girl next door kind of character who wants to research into detection techniques of pancreatic cancer having suffered a personal grievance in her earlier life. Due to circumstances, they start fake dating and slowly start falling in love with each other. They can no longer deny the attraction they feel for each other. Against all odds and other hostile situations that arise - in the form of a jealous competitor - they stick together and take it long term. My Impressions I am on the...