A Mom making a Difference through Grace
Recommended: High School,Young Adults,Adults As an easterner I was wondering how I would be able to relate with a western shakespeare and thats where I was truly wrong. My goal for last year was to read Shakespeare and to truly understand why it was admired by many.And I understood it for the first time.Shakespeare brings out everyday emotions and showcases
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Recommended: Middle School, High School,Young Adults,Adults This is a beautiful book for anyone who is intimidated by Shakespeare ,It i s an abridged contemporary rendering of Shakespeare which can be used with young children.It still gives an close feeling of reading Shakespeare because it has the exact lines from the plays in its retelling.This is one book I would highly
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Recommended: All ages A book that I really really loved .This book has a depth that I really really loved. Prince Phillip loses his way in the Hemlock Forest where an evil robber king and his followers live. He must learn the lessons of the Golden Thread by turning aside from temptation and and following the Golden Thread to return home to
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Recommended: Elementary, Middleschool If you’ve been around my channel for sometime you know my leaning towards books that build character and morality.And King of the Golden River is one such book. This is a Victorian classic about a boy named Gluck and his journey to the Golden river.I do not want to spoil the book and hence I do not
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Recommended:(parental discretion advised ) Young adults and adults World War 2 has been a subject that fascinated me.I got into reading this book.This is a hard book but the takings from it are enormous and helps us to appreciate life. This is a collection the true life incident recorded by Anne frank who is hiding with her family from the
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Recommended :Young Adults Amartya Sen is a Nobel prize winning economist.And hence I was interested to read this book ,the book consists of his essays and his exploration on India’s past and present. I grew up in a very tolerant household where we were encouraged to think, question and talk different ideas .Even though Mr Sen holds a very different world
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Recommended : HighSchoolers and above This is a very unique read.This is the true life incident of Elie Wiesel in Nazi German Concentration camp in second world war 1944-1945.It deals with raw human emotions with respect to survival in a camp.And dehumanizing of a person. I as a person am not into reading hard reads.While i was listening to another
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Recommended: High school and above. During October I try to keep up with the Genre of Intrigue.So this year I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.It deals with rejection ,loneliness , unwanted-ness and sadness. All real and powerful emotions and hence a difficult book to read.And in some ways when we read the life of Mary Shelley it is easy to
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Recommended : Middle Schoolers and above For those wanting to cultivate a love of history in their children,I would recommend this book.As an older reader this book made me nostalgic as I remember reading Akbar and Birbal legendary stories during my very own middle school years. An absolutely interesting read for middle schoolers. Amrita has done an excellent job to
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Recommended : Middle Schoolers and above Stories compiled for a western audience while could still be nostalgic to an Indian.This is compilation from ancient Indian texts like Jatakas , Panchatantra and other fables.A collection of 25 storiesThe stories of talking animals and supernatural adventures are very much Indian in style.The most famliar of all is the talkative tortoise . Watch the
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