Review of "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" by Cheryl Strayed

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My new favorite book! This collection of essays is the sweetest, most profound, beautiful, uplifting, heartbreaking, intense, emotional, clarifying, intelligent, honest and life-changing collection I've ever read. Cheryl Strayed is a brilliant writer, applying her personal life experiences to each and every personal letter addressed to Sugar. I will purchase this book and read it from time to time to remind myself of the "Tiny Beautiful Things" that Sugar provides.

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Review of "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity" by Katherine Boo

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was definitely well written, but, for me, it was difficult to get through. It is a work of nonfiction that reads like a novel and it is so easy to think of the book as a work of fiction. Whenever those thoughts entered my mind, I thought, why would she create these characters just to weave a life of pure awfulness (no better way to put this) that surrounds them. However, this book is a piece of investigative journalism and it is all TRUTH. That fact left me feeling sick whilst reading the book. Sometimes, I think I prefer to subscribe to the belief that 'ignorance is bliss'. I was never aware of any of this occurring in India and now that I am somewhat alerted of this world, I wish I still had no knowledge of this underworld. It was too depressing for me overall....i like to think more optimistically about the world and humanity itself...

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