20 December, 2018

My favourite books this year






Definitely a Must Read - very insightful




Questions the value of early conventional education; tells the real life ascension of a US mormon girl with nil conventional education, and a rough upbringing among rowdy brothers, prior to going to the best British universities to complete a PhD.




Politics




Targets teenager girls and young women audiences with their questions replied by famous women. Absolutely delightfully and powerfully written. Loved it, very contemporary way to address readers.






Gem book written by Oscar's Piano school manager's brother, a famous foreign correspondant born in Brisbane. Literature and current affairs. Incredible insight in 'another way of thinking' of indigenous people unwillingly caught in the mad mappings of colonisation, with all its layers. Magnificent writing.



Master Piece, I don't understand why it earned a price of Young Readers, it's a cannon of contemporary French (adult) literature, so subtil, honest and powerful. Talks about harkis and second generation harkis in France. Very subtil while powerful.





American couple's struggle with marriage, extremely insightful





This book was all over the place in Ubud, Bali, so I felt I had to read it. While it has a lot of entertaining value, and made me laugh a lot, the mystical content is a bit confused and confusing. Light reading.








Children from famous spy women recount how they survive WWII - giving a voice to children



When Arts become therapy against Humans' short comings




Easy read





 Great attempt from the author to genuinely render the voice of the voiceless in her writing tonalities and expressions - untranslatable.