The Last Invisible Boy

The last Invisible boy is just like the title. Its about a boy whose father dies and, He feels invisibly, and soon after terns invisible.
The only way to become visible again  is if he commits a bad deed. So he thinks becoming a rebellion is going to fix his problems. But instead it backfires really fast.

The book is intense, it covers allot of ground in-terms of emotions. You can feel the frustration and sadness, coming from most of the characters.
 Well done to:Evan Kuhlman  

Half a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Review by Uli Vuma

To sum this up in a quote..."If we don't end war, war will end us."-H. G. Wells

And that is all there is to it. This book is about a war between people, between nations, between living in silence and loving in silence. It centers around 3 main characters, Ugwu, Olanna and Kainene and there struggles during and after the Biafran War. We journey into the book and its setting with Ugwu, a man servant. His inquiring mind and general need to impress his Master, Odenigbo, is heart rending. It just roots the seed of sadness within you and you constantly wonder how he is doing when another character is in play. To please Odenigbo is Ugwu's one and only desire and sometimes Odenigbo is ignorant of this because of his fixation with his new girlfriend, Olanna. Their love is the rebellious kind. This is because her family, excluding her sister, are whole heartily against her relationship with the Professor. They fancy her with a chief, one that can give them high rank and riches beyond their dreams. Olanna is opposed to this, and she explains what she goes through throughout the book.

Kainene, who I believe doesn't sit right in the story line, is the comic relief. She is free spirited and is currently dating a white man. But nobody notices because they are all occupied with Olanna, her bigger and much beloved sister. She puts on a shield, one that hides her anger and sadness that her sister is afforded all the attention. This is probably why she started dating Richard, for the attention. But nothing is said in the book to this effect. For now she is roughing it out behind the scenes and waiting for her time of attention. And it comes.....

Fast forward 4 years and the arrival of babies, I won't say who's, and the abounding dangers of Biafra, has caused some of the characters to escape to a place called Nsukku. They land up impoverished and lodging with some refugees. They eventually run out of food and Kainene, wanting to be the hero, desperate for the love and attention she needed, decided to go look for food. But then she goes missing...

Books like these have to be digested slowly. They are quite intense, long running and enervate. But well worth finishing. This book reveals how harsh war is on the people that live in it. The emotions are out in the open, especially with characters like Ugwu and Kainene. Towards the climax, it can get really suspenseful, giving it a thriller-like feel. Chimamanda's writhing is amazing. How she managed to display those feelings in 540 pages escapes me. She writes as if she was there and that reels you in. This book is emotionally charging and if it wasn't for the lack of moisture in my tear ducts, I probably would've cried.

8 out of 10.

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Review By Uli Vuma

WARNING: SPOILERS BE HERE:

This book centers around a woman who murdered her own child. It is quite depressing and offers a lot of emotional grief. Basically, it is set in the bleak wake of the American Civil War. Sethe was a mother of four, had just killed her eldest daughter, was in the process of recovering from the loss of her mother in law, Baby Suggs, and was coming to grips with the fact that her old master, Mr. Garner, was fast on her heels, ready to X her out. Its really some edgy stuff. Anyway, on top of this already brimming list of dilemmas, her friend/lover, Paul D (Not Pauly), has come back in search for her love. And his arrival is what sets the book in motion.

It starts off ambiguously and ends off on the same note. The beginning starts somewhere after the War and you have absolutely no idea that lives have been lost the way they have. This monotonous mood simmers a little until we see flashbacks from Sethe. Then fireworks and quick and devastating jabs coming from the past. We see images of tombstones, old, dying ladies and lovers lost. These build up tension until Paul D comes and the entire story manages to fold out towards the end.

There is not much to tell without revealing key factors in the book so I will just mention how it made me feel. I had all sorts of knots in my stomach, not because I was disgusted but I was in utter stupefaction of this character. Her methods where something to be worried about, but her intentions where understandable. She genuinely wanted the happiness for her children that she battled to find in her whole lifetime. And that resonates with me. Sure, in the end, there was a tumultuous conclusion, but her mentality and what she wanted to achieve still sits there, even if it wasn't as naked as I'd wanted it to be.

Overall, I would say this book certainly exposed me to a lot. Some good, some bad, some heartbreaking. Mostly heartbreaking. I hope that I won't have to go to the lengths that Sethe went through for her children's well being. But by that same token, if push comes to shove, I hope to have the same courage that Sethe had and have the boldness to fall on my knees with grace like she did.

This book reveals desperate times and the characters within them that persevered. It also offers the opportunity for self introspection. You'll find yourself asking many questions, wondering if you would have thought the same things, done the same things, and felt the same. And then you will finally close that book, sit and ponder on whether you could ever live in a time like that and still love the way that Sethe loved.

Good Read. Pick it up.

Alex Rider: Storm Breaker

This book is all about a boy named Alex Rider who 's uncle dies during a secret mission. Alex then takes it upon himself to avenge his uncle by joining the Army and looking for his fathers killer. Alex finds out about why his uncle was killed. He meets up with the head of the association that his uncle worked for. His sister then becomes worried about how Alex was going to take being a spy and learning more about the death.

Find out more about the book by reading the book.

This book was quite heart breaking in the beginning. But in the end it became very exciting as they folded out a plan on how to protect the president from being ambushed.

Great for action fans.

Mao's Last Dancer

This is about a poor Chinese family that lives in one of the poorest cities in China. The family had lived there for years. They had about seven children, four boys and three girls. The children where taken care of by the aunt who's name was Niang and the Grand mother. The uncle and grand father helped with the cutting down of trees and fixing things around in the house. A few years later one of the boys wanted to dance as a ballet dancer. in the end it turned out that the same boy competed in a city competition. All the other dancers had failed to compete due to injuries. So the boy was about to step up to compete until .....

This book got me addicted to reading.
I would have to say that the book affected me because it showed me how others are way less fortunate.

Dragon Lance

TAKE CAUTION. THIS BOOK IS KILLER FUNNY

The book was just way more than I expected, 

every page had me on the floor with stitches.

This book is brilliant if you need to lift your spirits.

The end defies the laws of physics.

Anyone who doesn't see that as cool, is majorly crazy.

THE BOOK WAS ABOUT:

dwarfs and humans, they can see each other but they can't be seen together. 

So a dwarf and human decide to break rules and go on a quest for a book, yes a book.

Now what you have to understand is that they didn't have Amazon, eBay, or Walmart. So everything was turned into a giant quest. So if you wanted to eat Ribs, you would essentially go on a hunt for pork. You probably had to "quest" for margarine as well. I'm glad I live in this day and age. In the end though, beside their alliance for the book quest, the human double-crosses the dwarf. And someone ends up with a knife stuck up their chest, yes, up their chest. I won't say who did what. 

Just read the book.

Jane Eyre

Besides all the weird parts, this book, just like a sunrise becomes hotter and hotter towards the end. There was a whole lot of stuff going on there.
For me there were too little comical events, the romance was way too deep. It was great how Charlotte made Jane's story so emotional! I also was fascinated that Mr. Rochester locked up his wife. In the movie, we are rewarded with Mrs. Rochester spitting out flies. That was cool.

Over and above, Jane had a hard life. And besides the love drama, her pain touched me.
The romance made me tear up (because of my boredom).

Since the movie is out I'll do a double review.
The movie had too much hair! And tents. ( I think those were dresses though)

To Charlotte,
Well done, on keeping me awake!