The Reading List For Non Readers

If you are a book lover, then you obviously started with a book that just twisted your life upside down from a plain human to book worm, however, it takes time to find the right book, the right author, the right story that makes you sink into the book and forget about the world.

    In the following article, I’ll list for you some anonymous reviews from bookworms about the very first book they started with   :

1- The misfortunes of Sophie by Sophie Rostopshine  :

    

The misfortunes of Sophie is a collection of short stories that happened to a little girl living the aristrocrats life, and with all the pros and cons of life, she always managed to get the best of the situations.

    The book teaches that dealing with life may not be easy but it is possible and at the end, no matter all the material things you own, only the invisible things make your happiness, because it is felt not seen.

2- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen :

   

 This title goes in almost every kind of reading list recommandation, and it is sure not a cohensidence, Jane Austen’s style is very special, she doesn’t tell you about the story, she makes you live inside of it, a mixture of moral, education, life and love, you meet with Mrs Bennet and Mr Darcy, and discover a gentle side of life with the flaws of both of them.

3- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery :

   

As the title expresses it, the story involves a prince, but quite uncommon to the kingdom stories we know, he reigns over the asteroid 612, and, too curious to say up above, he decides to visit the earth, there he meets a human and they go along a journey together all along the book.

    The beauty of this story is seen in two points, the first is that the wolrd’s current situation can relate to the story in a very subtle way, the second is that the story is dedicated to kids, by the simple phrases and the innocence flowing out of it, and yet, a person would never understand its beauty unless they read it as an adult.

4- Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :

    

We always think of Sherlock when it comes to detectives, but in the books, we are mesmerized by him because we see him from Watson’s eyes, as the story is told from the point of view of his assistant, Doctor Watson, who has an absolute respect for Mr Holmes work, and the story is told that way because the author himself is a doctor.

    Through the stories, you feel like there’s a light veil between Holmes and the criminal, the veil can drop at any moment , at any sentence, and it keeps you hanging until the very end, making each piece of the puzzle fall right into place, and the conclusion is made through a deep and illuminating conversation between Watson and Holmes.

5- Girl On Paper by Guillaume Musso :

    Its original title is “ La Fille De Papier”, and it talks about a writer and the protagonist of his own book, as they meet at the very beggining, because unfortunatly, she fell off the book.

    The story seems fictional until the very end, and through it, Musso takes the readers across California and Mexico to rediscover the true meaning of love, friendship and devotion, yet the end is shocking, heart breaking and tear dropping.

    To conclude, there isn’t much to say except that a book might be too heavy, too expensive, too long or even too unrealistic, yet we should keep on reading, not to fall asleep, not for isolation, not out of boredom, but we read because we find in books all the hopes, the lights, the promises, the shadows and the dreams we see in the world, we read because we walk through the pages, hand in hand, with people we never met before, we read because we search for the glitters of life, that can only be written by the finest of minds.

                                                                               Sabrine Bouras.