Inane Murtaza

By now, almost every one of us would have somewhere or other seen the cover of the book with a weird face or a boy with a spacesuit alien. For those who haven't, you guys should immediately Google the word 'Wonder' and I hope this jogs your memory. The book deals with a boy with Treacher Collins Syndrome and how his life is affected when he finally decides to join school after years of home schooling. Blurb (From Goodreads): Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, he has been home-schooled by his parents his entire life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, Auggie's parents are sending him to a real school. Can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all? My Take on the book: What attracts you immediately to th...

"I have a dream...", the first time I ever heard this speech by Martin Luther King Jr, the speech reverberated through me for a very long time. The lives of the people affected by the evils of Slavery can never be compensated and this was also depicted brilliantly in one of my favourite classics till date, Uncle Tom's Cabin. So, recently when I picked up this book, me and 2 of my friends decided to buddy read this one. Though it took me quite a bit of time to finish the book, but it felt like an achievement as it was my first book for 2018. Blurb: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned and, though they manage to find a statio...