What is the last book you read, and your rating?

[Shafna]

The last book i read was Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. It was easily 5/5. The story is about the relationship between an old teacher and his student who has a troubled lifestle. After years of teaching "Morrie" (the teacher) stays home due to his illness which is destroying him little by little. He meets his student (Mitch) back again after.many years. And once again destiny makes them to be a teacher and a student back again. This time Morries teaches him Life not books. And they continuosly meet up on Tuesdays of the last days of Morrie until he dies. The book was beautiful and so hearttouching. Making the reader realize all the love he has and he needs in life, things he has to let go, things he has to hold on, things that are complicated but necessary and all the things that makes your life worth to live.
It is definitely a book to be read by everyone who thinks life is not beautiful, life is not worth it and life is unfair.

[tayloremily]

Hi! The last book I read was Happy healing by Dominique Bourlet. I rated it 4 out of 4 stars.

This book was about self healing techniques. I really liked it.

[sarahahp]

Hi,

The last book I read was Hidden: Nistar by Batya Casper. It contains two novellas. One is about a girl who grows up with her grandmother and has no idea why she doesn't have a mother. The second is set during World War II, in a home in England where some refugees stayed with a family.

I rated it 4 out of 4 because the detail and descriptions were written so well.

[Redlegs]

The Bonfire of the Vanities is Tom Wolfe's 1987 homage to New York, in all its greatness and awfulness.

It relates, in exquisite and excruciating detail, the downfall of Sherman McCoy, successful Wall Street bond trader (a WASP and Master of the Universe) after he is involved in a motor vehicle accident that leaves a black youth in a coma.

This is a caustic, at times vicious, satire that takes on the Irish, the Jews, African Americans, the police and judicial systems, newspapers and Wall Street greed.

There are few, if any, 'good' characters in this novel. Everyone is playing the game, for financial or political advantage.

Wolfe obviously loves the vast diversity of New York and its various boroughs, although the novel focuses mostly on Manhattan and the Bronx. He is also an enthusiastic and observant student of language and accents, and he frequently details the nuances of American English at play in this cosmopolitan city.

But it is the downfall of Sherman McCoy, his headlong fall from grace, the destruction of his marriage, his career, his social circle and his public reputation that is so sordid and pitiful. Sure, Sherman made plenty of mistakes, but the system is designed to severely limit his options for redemption and genuine justice.

While perhaps a little long and overly detailed at times, this is a powerful and riveting work by Tom Wolfe and is highly recommended. 5 stars out of 5

[quirky_scorpio]

last book that I finished was Julu by Jan Anderegg...m still in awe of it and reted it 4/4.

[Mrsbrinson31101]

The last book that I read the Bible and I don't think I can rate it effectively without offending someone.

[Thehorselover]

Breaking Sandcastles by Kirk Burris
3 our of 4 star rating

[Noosh]

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and it was a perfect 4 out of 4!

[Redlegs]

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is another of those lengthy Russian sagas that is convoluted in its plot, vast in its cast of eccentric characters, and full of quite strange behaviours and motivations.

Prince Muishkin, the so-called 'Idiot' of the title, returns to Russia after an extended spell in Switzerland where he was treated for, and has apparently recovered from, epilepsy. Soon coming into unexpected wealth, he becomes involved in the upper society of St Petersburg in the 1860s, and particularly close to the Epanchin family, the wife and mother being a distant relative.

There are many wonderful and strange characters in this lengthy novel, which has many diversions from the main plot thread, and which, unfortunately, after a promising beginning, degenerates into something of a soap opera.

This is a classic Dostoevsky novel, not quite as bizarre as Crime and Punishment and not as fascinating as The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky delves into the habits and proclivities of pre-revolutionary Russian society, with its stark inequalities pf privilege and deprivation, full of quirky characters whose motivations are not always easy to understand or reconcile.

4 stars out of 5

[D Churchill]

The last book I read was the Laws of Human Nature, and I'd rate it a full 4 stars. Robert Green has a way of presenting research about being human that makes you look not only at your own ways but take an honest look at every relationship and connection that make being human so dynamic.

[juliesand]

I just finished Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks by Dr. Morton Tavel. Some interesting discussion of the swirling news stories, old wives tales, etc. surrounding health. I gave the book a 3/4.

[123Mickey]

I just finished The Power by Naomi Alderman. I gave this book a 3/5.

The book comes highly hyped/recommended-Bailey winner. I was disappointed. For anyone who has read feminist literature for many years, the premise of the switch of power from men to women isn’t as exciting as it would be for someone just coming to this genre. The book is long, somewhat disjointed and violent. It is written in the style of Atwood's Handmaid’s Tale but without the

[Oliver_books]

The MECE Muse by Christie Lindor
Rating: 4 out of 4

[AleYaya]

I just finished Adrift by Steven Callahan. I had heard of the movie and thought that this was what it was based on. Turned out to be a completely different story, but gripping nonetheless.
I give it a 3 out of 4. The story was incredible, so it was hard to make a bad book out of a story like that. But the author threw in these terribly grainy black and white pictures that were poorly drawn. And his captions under them were often really long and incredibly hard to understand. I ended up skipping them entirely as I read. They didn't add to the story and would only make sense if you had physically seen the life raft and other equipment he was describing.
Overall, a great book.

[kmaatman1986]

The Trial of Connor Padget by Carl Roberts.
Rating: 3 out of 4