Book Reviews-Emily
THE READER
By Bernhard Schlink .
This story begins in post-war Germany, when 15 years old Michael Berg vomits on his way home from school and a stranger helps him out. After a winter spent sick with hepatitis, he tells his mother about the stranger. And his mother tells him that as soon as he is better, he should use his own pocket money to buy some flowers, go introduce himself, and say thank you.
Finding his way into the woman’s (Hanna) house, she just comes back form work. Michael watches through the crack of the door when Hanna is changing out of her work clothes. Michael feels embarrass and he begins to run away and Hanna catches his eyes. He returns and this is when their erotic love story begins. They showered together and made love.
Then one day Hanna disappears, and when Michael next sees her, she is on trail for her part in a war crime (bombing raid) and she is sentenced to prison. By that time, Michael is already married with a daughter. But later he divorced with his wife as he still could not forget about Hanna. In the end, when Hanna is able to leave the prison, she commits suicide and Michael is depressed.
The Five Pepple You Meet in Heaven
By Mitch Albom
This story begins on Eddie’s eighty-third birthday, a simple and lonely person who has had long war services. During Eddie usual routine, he notices a little girl frozen in fear beneath the car, in order to safe her from a falling car, he dives to save her, but he ended up dying from this tragic accident.
Eddie finds himself to be awake in the afterlife, where he learns that the heaven is not a grand Garden of Eden. After that a man explains to him that heaven is a place where his earthly life is explained to him by five people who are in it. The man continues to explain about the different stages in his life
With that the river raised quickly, engulfing Eddie’s waist and chest and shoulders. And he feels his body being washed from his soul, meat from the bone, and with it went all the pain and weariness he ever held inside him, every scar, every wound, and every bad memory. And suddenly he is transported into a pier where he sees thousand of lives there ranging from unborn babies to elderly. Those lives that he sees are all the people he has saved when he is still alive. A while later , all the people in the pier vanished into the thin air.
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HoneySuckle Lovelace : Ghosthunters
By Cherry Whytock
This story is about a Dog Walkers’ Club business is increasing from strength to strength. Honeysuckle and her friends already have plenty of clients and they have just got another one, a twitchy whippet called Twitter. Life at home is not going so well. The relationship between Honeysuckle and Honeysuckle’s mum, Rita, is getting worst. As Rita has a new admirer and Honeysuckle is not keen on him at all. Honeysuckle dislikes him as he wants them to move out of the leaky houseboat and scares them with spooky local stories. When Twitter’s owner asks Honeysuckle to dog-sit in her old, creaky house, Honeysuckle remembers one of the spooky stories. After a deeply scary time there, she’s sure the house is haunted.
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