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Anthem (book review)

Anthem by Ayan Rand (May contain Spoilers) Summary: This book takes place in the future where the government has a full control of people, they label every individual with a name and number, no one has a real name or identity, they all have to attend school till they reach the age of 15 and then the government decides where the people shall work for the rest of their lives. As for Equality 7-2521 he was different, he was smarter than most of the people in the school and that what made all his teachers and colleagues fear him. He thought that he was cursed because he thinks of things he should not be thinking and that is because the government taught everyone to be equal, no one is superior to anyone at anything. Equality wanted to be a Scholar but the government decided to make him a street sweeper.  While he was sweeping the street he was designed to work on, he met a girl named Liberty 5-3000 who he soon fell in love with her which is a sin because love was...

A Place Called Here (book review)

A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern (May contain spoilers) Summary: Sandy Shortt is a 34 years old woman who started her own finding missing people organization in Ireland, after spending her whole life wondering where all her missing socks went and more especially where did her neighbor Jenny-May Butler disappeared to when she was 6 years old. Jack Ruttle asked Sandy if she could find his missing brother Donal who went missing about a year ago and after they agreed on a place and time to meet something weird happened: Sandy went missing. She got to the place a little early and she decided to take a look around the woods, she walked and walked till she saw a group of 50 years old people sitting together, by the time Sandy got to know their names she found out that they were those 5 students who went missing in a school camping trip back in the 70s, Sandy didn't just walked into the woods, she walked into a place called "Here" where all the miss...