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5 Best Books of 2019..You Can't Wait to Read


Mon 07 Oct 2019 | 02:51 PM
Ahmed Yasser

You still have plenty of time to start reading  good and entertaining books . There are 5 books that beg you to skim through this week. there are plenty of highly-anticipated books releases on the way.

1- Rising by Elizabeth Rush

This book introduces how climate change is affecting American shorelines, provides critical evidence of the devastating changes already faced by some coastal dwellers. Rush, who teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University presents firsthand accounts of these changes.

Rush also presents a legible overview of scientific understandings of climate change and the options for combating it. In the midst of a highly politicized debate on climate change and how to deal with its far-reaching effects, this book deserves to be read by all.

Rising seas trouble us so much not just because of global warming but for the choices our society has made about how to treat the coasts.

Rising

 

2- Always Look on Bright Side of Life

Eric Idle was the only member of the Monty Python team who wrote solitarily. While John Cleese , Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Michael Palin forged close working relationships.

Idle, who lives in Los Angeles, doesn’t just provide a detailed account of his days with John Cleese, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam. His relationships with celebrities as Robin Williams, Mike Nichols and Steve Martin also give readers a nuanced look into talented Americans whose love of what they do enriched Idle’s path to stardom.

The book begins with his easygoing British childhood and education at Cambridge, before he segues to how he met the future Python members during TV writing stints.

Always Look on Bright Side of Life

3- Road To Character by David Brooks

David Brooks, writer and columnist at the New York Times, he examines his life and the lives of Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall and George Eliot among others, searching for ways people build character.

Brooks hopes his readers will come away pursuing “eulogy virtues” with the same vigor they pursue professional success and that they discover there is wisdom in history and literature that can not be found in academic journals.

Some disagree with portions of ”Brooks” conclusions and their arguments are not unfair but he includes interesting stories and a compelling framework for finding purpose in more than wealth and professional success.

Road To Character

4-Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

T.S Eliot described the novel of the Jazz age the “first step” American fiction had taken since Henry James. It is considered as one of the great classics of 20th-century literature.

The novel combines magic and shocking realism. The story revolves around wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan, the luxurious parties on Long Island creates the tale of America in 1920 that resonates with the power of myths.

-Great Gatsby

5 -Weapons of Mass Diplomacy Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by ”Abel Lanzac” demonstrates indisputably that a graphic novel can provide great opportunities for trenchant commentary on public affairs.

Writing from his own experiences within the “Quai d’Orsay”, brings us a story that is both a compelling international thriller on par with Thirteen Days and a very funny and true-to-life comedy of daily life reminiscent of Office Space.

Weapons of Mass Diplomacy