Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW Carly Bennett is introduced as a polished and successful English professor—respected, composed, and seemingly in control. However, her inner thoughts reveal anxiety, depression, and unresolved bad experiences from her past. We get glimpses of her childhood: a sudden fall from her reputed state of being and when she was accused of making harsh allegations against her stepfamily. She was sent away to boarding school, rejected by the very people she trusted—especially her mother. The emotional twists: Carly insists she never made those claims against her stepfamily. The cold case reopens driven by the possibility that her mother didn’t abandon her, Carly begins investigating her mother’s death. She starts reviewing old records, news reports, and faint memories. Inconsistencies emerge—details that were overlooked or dismissed. For the first time, Carly considers that her mother’s death may not have been an incident that was merely to be forgotten. My favor...

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW You are a business owner or a consultant probably choosing to read this book because a pattern is recognized in your Business. The author is a businessman too who emphasizes in his book that stagnation and comfort is the true enemy killing your business. 80% of the businesses are dying slowly means they are stagnating. The writer goes on to condemn the consultants who sell sedatives that numb the organizations to pain of decline. Sell differentiation instead of same frameworks, sell best practices when there is war on stagnation of businesses and the consultants don't tell you the truth. The author promises to his readers that he can deliver measurable results in ninety days, and you can double your EBITDA in three years over analysis in eighteen months. He is confident that he doesn't create dependency but systematic capability with independence. He doesn't guarantee a transformation for your organization that is easy. Reading this book can be v...

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW This memoir is about reflecting back on Mrs. Johnson's, a  middle-aged woman at forty-nine, her wedding  day and her marriage to Big Johnson. The author stores up memories and talks about her experience in her humor filled memoir. she has been trying to figure out since childhood how relationships work, how families get together and stay together which happened to be a mystery to her. Love is something beyond the excitement of romance and being in love. This took more than forty years for Lisa to realize as when she is preparing to get married to her boyfriend Big Johnson who was previously married twice before her. It is a committed, thoughtful decision. Love is nurturing and love is listening. Love is caring and Love is Kind. From where Lisa is coming from in her family in Mum's and Dad's side of parent's commitment wasn't in their genes. Nothing lasted more than six months. Either they would run, or they would ask her to marry them a...

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW The Sirens of Paris by David Le Roy set during World War II in a war-torn France , is historical fiction novel, blending war, romance, and spirituality into a deeply reflective narrative.  The story follows Marc Tolbert, a young French American who abandons a safe future in the United States to pursue art in Paris —only to become trapped in the chaos of war and its moral consequences.  In the beginning of the novel, in the very first page a mysterious figure a church priest does prayers that opens with The Sirens of Paris where Marc already is dead and facing judgment before the Unknown unto God reshapes the entire reading experience by placing morality at the center.  The war setting becomes more of a backdrop that shows Paris as the central beloved place of Marc but the where real conflict is happens within him— and can find him emotionally rooted between loyalty and self-preservation, love and fear, courage and weakness.  Paris ...