Review: Star Wars by LucasFilm Press A Graphic Novel

Rate:

5/5

Goodreads Description:

Everyone's favorite tale of good versus evil takes on a whole new look in this graphic novel! Join Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, and the rest of the heroes and villains from a galaxy far, far away in this graphic novel collection that retells the original three Star Wars films: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. You'll experience the saga in a way you never have before!

Review:

I LOVED the illustrations, from the very first one, I wanted to recreate them!

Cuz thats what I do, I recreate my favorite drawings for my own personal use.

The book felt like I was running, everything was happening so freaking fast but I mean, what else can you expect, this is a really long trilogy full of so many struggles and things happening that if they tried to make the novel more justice to what we see in the movies or novelizations, then the book would be at lest 3x bigger. I like this for kids that really like Star Wars and youre trying to encourage them to read more. I really dug the illustrations, some of them were really funny, the shape of them.

I wish I could find examples from the book but I guess you will simply have to find out. 

This book actually came at a perfect time, since I wanted to see the series again but was too busy studying to my finals, so this saved me approximately 8 hours. 

Recommend it?

If youre a Star Wars fan, I think that whatever I say wouldnt matter.

Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

Rate:

4/5

Goodreads Description:

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages.In seven brief lessons, Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli guides readers with admirable clarity through the most transformative physics breakthroughs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This playful, entertaining and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, already a major bestseller in Italy, explains general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role of humans in the strange world Rovelli describes. This is a book about the joy of discovery. It takes readers to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. “Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,” Rovelli writes. “And it’s breathtaking.”

Review:

There isnt much I can say on this book, there isnt much that I can think about to be honest. Its the first book of its kind that I have come across and I went the audiobook version. It all pretty much felt like I was listening to a lecture but it was free and a lot more interesting that some lectures I have had to endure. The audiobook is pretty short but it is packed with interesting points. This is totally a book that can entice a lot of discussion between readers and at a book club, something that you should read with a buddy and discuss as you go along. Things would be a lot more interesting and fun that way.

Recommend it?

Yes with someone else. 

Review: Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Rate:

4/5

Goodreads Description:

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.

Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.

Review: 

This book wasn't as addicting as her first one was for me but it was still very interesting. At first it took me a bit to get into, not really caring much for the characters, but just like The Girl on the Train, doubts start to set in and the reader starts to get pulled in.

The way the story ran was slower than her first book, the thrill wasn't obvious.

Into the Water had an interesting background to offer the readers, making this little town seem very dark and sinister, the way you can only find in books. You get the feeling that everyone is hiding something, its just a matter of time before the secrets get out.