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  Evil Under the Sun Evil Under the Sun is a whodunit classic written by Agatha Christie. In Evil Under the Sun , the famous detective Hercules Poirot travels to a resort to relax. At the resort, a former actress named Arlena Marshall, who is portrayed as a self-centered person who causes people to not like her, is found strangled on the beaches of the resort. With everyone at the resort having an alibi, it is up to Hercules Poirot to find out who did this murder.  This book is one of my favorite detective novels. I have always been a fan of whodunit books and have recently decided to revisit them. The main thing I like about this book is how it keeps you in suspense till the end. Once I picked up this book, I only felt like putting it done once I found out who did it. Another thing Agatha Christie does well is how she writes the novel in a way where we are in the detective shoes ourselves and you can almost imagine yourself trying to solve the case.  This involves you m...

                   Cancer is a word that strikes fear in people just by thinking about it. Cancer is truly tragic whether it's terminal or curable. Even though many cancer patients don't die, the process of recovering from cancer is truly painful.             Hazel Grace, the 16-year-old protagonist of the story, has had cancer since she was 13. Hazel at the time of the story Hazel has stage 4 cancer thyroid cancer that has just spread to her lungs. One day, Hazel would experience extreme pain in her lungs. She couldn't breathe, she couldn't think, and everything was going black. She soon found herself lying on a hospital bed. Her lungs were filled with liquid, and she felt like she was dying. The liquids in her lungs were cleared, and in an effort to possibly suppress the pain, a doctor gave Hazel phalanxifor, an experimental drug that could suppress the pai...

I’m sure that the majority of you reading this are familiar with the author Rick Riordan, most famously known for writing the Percy Jackson series. In 2021 Rick Riordan released a refreshing new book, completely outside of the Percy Jackson universe. Daughter of the Deep is the first series book (Please, Rick Riordan, please release book two very soon). Daughter of the Deep occurs in a near-future world where climate change has deeply affected the environment. This novel is heavily inspired by Jules Verne's classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" while also a compelling exploration of marine biology, environmental conservation, and some pretty imaginative technology. The story starts with Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy receiving a cryptic message from her father, the renowned but long-lost Captain Nemo Dakkar. Harding-Pencroft Academy is a five-year high school that produces the best marine specialists in the world. The message tells her to search for ...

We Were Liars Summary and Review By Krishna Jaswal Summary      We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is narrated by Cadence Sinclair, a 17 year old who suffers headaches and migraines because of an accident that happened 2 summers ago. The Sinclair family is perfect, beautiful, and wealthy. They're tall, handsome, athletic, and old money. In the summertime they all live on a privately owned island off the coast of Massachusetts together. In the family there are “the Liars,” which consisted of Cadence, her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and a teenager named Gat who Cadence had fallen in love with. They grew up with each other and were known to be very close. The Liars however never stayed in touch with Cadence while she was recovering from her accident.     After a phone call from some relatives and a visit from her Granddad, it becomes clear that something is going on in the family, something wrong and the truth is not being told. Granddad’s mind is starting to falter ...

                                                                      Why Non-Fiction books are good for you      Many people think that non-fiction books are uninteresting, but non-fiction books are actually pretty interesting and you just have to find the right book.  For me, that book was My Life in Dog Years which I reviewed last time. I feel that non-fiction books are good for you and the two main reasons are that they offer information about the world and that they also give you exposure to real-life stories.       The first reason why I think that nonfiction books are good for you is because they give you a lot of information. Books such as National Geographic give you information about different stuff such as volcanoes and nature in...

                               If I Stay  is a young adult novel written by Gayle Forman. Published in 2009, the book received  the   2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Award and was a 2010 Indies Choice Book Award winner. The book also had a film adaptation that was fairly unsuccessful.  If I Stay  is a very interesting book to say the least.                  The protagonist of the story, Mia Hall, is a 17-year-old girl in high school. Mia struggles to fit in with others in school and with her family. Her mom, dad, and little brother, Teddy, all love rock, but Mia's music taste is drastically different. Mia loves classical music, but her mom, dad, and little brother were all rock-loving, enthusiastic listeners that were full of vigorous energy. However, Mia didn't really like rock. When the family listens to rock, a...

If you’re just like me and love Greek mythology or any mythology in general but generally tend to avoid any form of poetry, Bull by David Elliott is probably worth a try. This poem book follows the story of the royal family of Crete and the Minotaur, but not just in an ordinary way, the style in which David Elliott structures this book is quite curious, as he writes each poem in the book from the perspective of a different character (i.e. Poseidon- king of the oceans, Minos- king of Crete, Daedalus- the royal family’s forcefully-kept engineer, Pasiphae- Minos’s wife and queen of Crete, Asterion- Asterion/the Minotaur, half man half bull, etc.). David Elliott transforms the arguably mundane story of the Minotaur and gives it a scornful, condescending, profanity-full, but particularly amusing twist. In other words, the general plot of the story is followed but with a modern-like tone. The traditional story starts with a man by the name of Minos “humbly” requesting Poseidon to crown him k...