Book recommendations
Kane and Abel
The book is a marvelous story of two men who were born on the same day under completely different circumstances and how fate brought them together with both having an utter desire for success.
William Kane, born in a rich family of banker father was always good at maths, and his ability to understand stocks was extraordinary. He lost his father in the titanic mishap. Later his mother falls in love with another man. He starts resisting his mother’s boyfriend, Henry Osborne, who later turned husband to not let him lend any kind of leverage. Due to the blind love things fall apart and ignorance leads to his mother’s death and Osborne getting kicked by Kane. Meanwhile, Kane starts his glorious career as a banker.
Wadel Koskiwcz, later renamed Abel Reanovski was found in the forest by a trapper family and raised along with eight siblings in very poor conditions. But destiny has different plans with him, gets parted with his mother under the guidance of Baron due to his exceptional talent. Later the fallout of World war 1 deteriorates his prospects. Getting trapped by Germans, later moved to Syria. He manages to escape to Turkey and finally moves to America. Works as a waiter and due to his knowledge of accounts and management joins Leroy’s hotels as a manager and in no time reaches great heights.
Both are connected by unexpected circumstances on various occasions. One owning another life and the other owning success, albeit unknowingly. Eventually, they generate a bitter feud against each other with both getting hurt by unrelenting ego.
A must-read book from the author, Jeffrey Archer!
Rage of Angels
This book is one of my first of Sidney Sheldon. So the curiosity was there. My review and analysis of the Book:
The story concentrates on protagonist Jennifer Parker, an advocate with big dreams. She gets trapped into a trick on the first day of her career, being one in a group of juries on a very high-profile case involving Michael Moretti, the Mafia head. The lawyer, Robert De Silva, is so confident on the conviction of Moretti and hence gets outraged by a sudden shift of the case from his hands.
Jennifer’s life changes upside down with a small mistake she makes leading to his acquittal and everyone starts to blame her.
But nothing is going to stop her way to being the most sought-after lawyer in the history of the states! As they say, you make a door when an opportunity doesn’t knock. She builds her image from scratch with constant help from Adam Warner(later her lover). Adam is a lawyer in some reputed firm and wishes to join politics as the senator due to their good image.
Get Mandar Joshi’s stories in your inbox
Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer.
Jennifer falls in love with these two men, both married and which by the changes her fortune to unimaginable circumstances.
The bitter feud between Warner and Moretti keeps worried Jennifer all the time. From the nadir to the zenith of her ambitions to again becoming a pawn of a criminal organization, Jennifer shows her emotional intelligence. But she could not recover from the loss of the people she loved the most.
This book shows how our choices affect our future dramatically and how loneliness can make us go to any level possible.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Scout Finch, the narrator of the story, is a child who is unusually very thoughtful with regard to the goodness and evil of mankind. She expresses her perspective of deeply drenched racism in society.
Her father, Atticus Finch is a lawyer with wisdom and intelligence in the poverty-ridden city of Maycomb. He is respected by everyone and it turns out he is the Messiah of the poor. But the conscience which makes him popular also becomes the reason for the hatred for him when he decides to defend Tom Robinson, a black man. To the surprise of his children, Scout and Jem, he never holds a grudge for the people of Maycomb.
The verdict of guilty Tom’s trial is narrated by Scout with depleting human faith due to spurious rape charges brought up against him by Bob Ewell. The children find it difficult to understand how the verdict can go against the defendant as it was clear that Ewell had produced a prefabricated story.
The verdict gets ingrained in the minds of Scout and Jem and they find it difficult to converge teachings of their father and the injustice in the real world. The lack of morality in the world and the ability to handle good and evil is the main highlight of the story.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
A must-read from Harper Lee(4.5/5 ratings for this book).
Turtles all the way down
Recently I read this book by John Green. I have waited too long to pick it. But one day I thought, not anymore!
I was very much interested in it after reading the best-selling “Fault in our stars”. I must say that this book Is yet another masterpiece by the author. The story surrounds the protagonist Aza Homes. She is a teenage student who has been suffering from Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). in layman’s terms, it means that the person overthinks a lot of unnecessary things.
Aza is suffering badly and she often remains in her thought process and is excessively possessive about microbes in her body. She cannot help but think about how an extremely large number of bacteria reside in our bodies. There is another plot to find the father of her childhood friend Davis Pickett with her best friend Daisy. The story essentially revolves around the struggles of Aza. As a reader, you will find yourself in her mind. She is always in a conflicting state of thought processes. It is a very touching and emotional story and one kind of feels very sorry for her. It is also very disturbing. I got to know that the author himself suffered from OCD. It is simply his life, only with different characters.
Overall a worth read.
