My world as a book worm

A long way home By  Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose Published:  24th june 2013 Genre:  Biography, India Edition : Ebook Source:  Bought Pages:  288 My rating : 4/5  Goodreads rating : 4.13/5 Read: 2017/18 My mother described her reactions better than I ever could mine: she said she was "surprised with thunder" that her boy had come back, and that the happiness in her heart was "as deep as the sea" The Plot  Imagine that you have four kids and one night two of them disappear. The following morning you know that one had an acciddent and the other one is still missing.  Years after one young man explores google earth every day trying to reconstruct his last steps (what he can remember) of his previous life... the life before being adopted by a lovely australian couple. And one day... all his efforts are answered.... he finds light at the end of the tunnel. This book is the journey full of emotions of this yound ...

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank By Anne Frank Published: 1947 Genre: Nonfiction, history, biography, autobiography, memoir Edition: paperback Source: Purchased Pages: 283 My rating: 5/5 Goodreads rating : 4.1/5 Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing. I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage. It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because...