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Ania W. (aniaw) - Reviews

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The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 2/22/2010
Helpful Score: 1


The Alchemist is a story about following your own life path. It reminds you about the importance to listen to your own voice and notice signs that fate puts on the road for you. The novel is a typical reflection forcing you to stop for a moment, to look from a distance into your own life- identifying what really you would like to achieve and what is important to you. Enriches internally and reminds you of your own dreams.


My Sister's Keeper
My Sister's Keeper
Author: Jodi Picoult
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 2/22/2010


This book is about reflection on life, illness, morality and limits. Surpassed me in its own way incredibly moved and touched. This book affects deeper layers of human nature. Presented here is a girl (Anna), who is in a dramatic situation. She is a perfect match to be a donor to her sick of leukemia sister. Anna decides to fight for their rights- the right to make her own decisions on the disposal of her body. It is not easy, because Anna is a child who is torn between her own harm, and the love of parents and siblings. Anna is the hero of ancient tragedy- whatever she chooses it will be bad ... Very touching and captivating novel.


The Shack
The Shack
Author: William P. Young
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 2/22/2010


Wonderful story about the human condition with its own weaknesses, regret, despair and anger. A story about how hard it is to come to terms with the loss and that there somewhere is always waiting for us solace in the form of God or whatever higher power call / fate. The book delights with freshness, idea, while it is more than just a literary work. Everyone will find something in it for themselves, a moment of reflection and meditation on the meaning of their lives. The vision of God presented by the author is so natural and reliable thanks to incorporation of the divine qualities in the human appearance.


Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika Decides to Die
Author: Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Review Date: 2/22/2010
Helpful Score: 1


This book touches the problem of the grey reality. Who of us do not sometimes feel like you could die without any important reason like Veronica? After reading this book, a person reflects on his or her life, trying to fix it and add color. Read it with bated breath -not for a great story, but the truth, leaning out from between the pages of a book. Veronica after attempting suicide goes to a psychiatric hospital where people who live there show her that it is worth to live ... that you can control your life- if only that you want . Veronica decides that again she would like to taste the world and at the asylum finds her true love... Beautiful book, which may be about any of us ...


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