The Book Quill

This book is a must for all the people who love figures of speech. Anthony Doerr has beautifully used all sorts of literary devices to create such a soul rippling effect that I just could not help but highlight numerous of them in my kindle. It’s a beautiful amalgamation of emotions of people during World War II. Their fears, their hopes, their beliefs, their happiness, their grief. It so powerfully leaves a footprint of what people had to suffer through during the war. And, most importantly it puts a very strong message underneath the whole story – ‘No one is victorious in a war’. The book completely takes you through a stroll of World War II. The language Anthony uses will compel you to feel the horror, the misery , the suffering , the waiting , the stillness and the aftermath. The story revolves around a blind little girl, Marie Laure who lives with her father in a small apartment in Paris ,who works as a locksmith in a museum nearby to their house. They are a happy couple who ...

This story is a part of every woman in India. It very subtly but strongly brings out the deep rooted psyche of every typical Indian, it’s not always their fault, but that’s what they have grown seeing around, and our ideology is intertwined with our society and culture. The book very beautifully and satirically brings out the stereotypes and hypocrisy of our society and how our society judges women at every stage of their lives and most of the time, not intentionally. Radhika Mehta, the protagonist is an intelligent, sharp and hardworking woman with a “no nonsense to be taken” attitude but there have been situations in the book where she had to stoop down either because of emotional bonds and out of love, or because that is the culture of the society you have been brought up in (which can be really senseless sometimes). She earns a lot of money, has an opinion on everything and had a couple of relationships; all these three are like a wicked witch’s potions formula for us Indians, ...

This story is about a family which is troubled from its very beginning, with a severely leukemic child, who they cannot give any part of their body to rescue her from death hence they get another genetically modified child through invitro fertilization to save their diseased child. From the very beginning as soon as Anna was born, she has given some part of her body to her elder sister so that she could live a few more days. From a young age, Anna has been aware of why she has existed ever, that is to save her elder sister Kate. She has been having no issues in saving her elder sister, till the time her sister is in need of a kidney which tags a series of events putting the whole family in turmoil. Anna not wanting to give a kidney sues her parents for medical emancipation. She does not want to be a donor anymore for Kate and a mother is torn between her two kids, a father is in despair to decide which child to take side for and an elder brother is helpless for not able to be of a...