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5 Fascinating Books That Beg You to Skim Through This Week


Sun 19 May 2019 | 09:38 AM
Ahmed Yasser

You still have plenty of time to start reading good and entertaining books.

1- Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson

“Mike Tyson” has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Yet even after hitting rock bottom the man who once admitted being addicted to everything fought his way back and achieved triumphant success.

Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson

2- Transcription Novel

In this inventive thriller, a naïve young secretary lands in the middle of a clandestine fifth column operation run by “MI5” in World War II, London, where she is recruited to transcribe the recorded meetings of Nazi sympathizers.

“Atkinson’s” use of comedy in the first half of the novel is unexpected and inspired and when the heroine is assigned her own false identity and charged with befriending a middle aged woman who is a Nazi sympathizer, the humor tilts toward the madcap.

Transcription Novel

3- “Silent Spring”

“Silent Spring” is as groundbreaking controversial and relevant today as it was when it was first published in 1962. It’s strange to read “Silent Spring” after more than 50 years from its publication in a handsome new edition from the America library .

Now it seems like a dispatch from disappeared world in large part because of “Silent Spring”.

Carson’s book appeared first in serialized form in the New Yorker in June 1962, drawing much attention from other media and a promise by then-former president ”Kennedy” to investigate the claims in this book. A few weeks after Kennedy’s promise, the book itself came out.

The book jumped to the best-seller book list and stayed there for months, selling more than 600,000 copies in it’s first six months.

“Silent Spring”

4- King of Scars

King of Scars is a forthcoming novel by ”Leigh Bardugo”, set in the Grishaverse and focused on the character Nikolai Lantsov. It is set to be released on January 29, 2019.

”Nikolai Lantsov” has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders the young king must find a way to refill ”Ravka’s” coffers, forge new alliances and stop a rising threat to the once-great ”Grisha Army”.

With the help of a young monk and a legendary ”Grisha Squaller”, ”Nikolai” will journey to the places in ”Ravka” where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself.

King of Scars

5-Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar

The book is a deeply moving novel about an American-born woman with ”Bengali” immigrant parents and the racism she faces raising her three daughters. It’s based on Devi S. Laskar’s own experience of police raiding her home.

Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar