5 Fascinating Books That Beg You to Skim Through This Week

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- Goodbye Freddie

Nadia Akbar’s novel, set in Pakistan, narrates the stories of the youth, as they grow up in a society ripe with corruption, volatile politics and gender bias.

Nida and Bugsy are two such teenagers whose lives get entangled when they meet at a party. After her brother’s death, Nida has grown estranged from her family and chooses to spend her days smoking one joint after another.

Bugsy is trying to harmonize rock music into the music scene in Lahore, a place that is still clinging to the tunes from years gone by.

Goodbye Freddie

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- High Season by Judy Blundell

A shimmering story of art, money, and celebrity, The High Season is wicked summer fun,” Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand described it.

High Season by Judy Blundell

4-When Life Gives You Lululemons- Lauren Weisberger

Who doesn’t remember watching “The Devil Wears Prada” hundred times?. The movie fans can easily read the New York Times best selling author Lauren Weisberger’s new novel entitled ''When Life Gives You Lululemons''.

The novel is featuring one of the Devil Wears Prada’s characters: Emily Charlton first assistant to Miranda Priestly who left her ex demanding boss in order to build a career.

When Life Gives You Lululemons

5 – Gandhi 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha

This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi’s life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948, drawing on many new sources and animated by its author’s wonderful sense of drama and politics.