Aicha Amano

For 227 days with little to no food, a 16-year-old boy from India shared a small boat with a hungry Bengal tiger... Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel from Pondicherry, India grew up with beautiful and exotic animals from his father's zoo. His familiarity with the animals has led him to love and revere these wild animals, observing their behavior and studying their way of living and adapting despite their captivity. Because of the sudden political instability, the Patel family found that it will not be able to continue the expensive upkeep of the zoo. The father decided to sell the zoo and its animals, start anew and try his luck across the ocean. Pi and the rest of the family were eager to be able to journey to Canada, to where another zoo has purchased a variety of their best animals. But in the middle of crossing the great ocean the ship sank and the only human survivor was Pi. In a small lifeboat Pi cowered with fear, anxiety, hunger and all the chaotic jumble of thoughts in...

(My version of "10 Reasons to Hate Kindle by Dave Rosenthal") 1. You can't leave a Kindle copy of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco lying on your beach towel when you doze off at Mergrande Resort. D'oh! 2. Cute nerdy guys with glasses won't introduce themselves upon noticing your copy of Forgotten Realms by R.A. Salvatore 3. My favorite cover art and inset graphics such as the illustrations on Hippolite's Island by Barbara Hodgson by can't be appreciated. 4. All books are the same in Kindleworld. You lose the charming, adventurous nature of Red Dog by Louis de Bernières and the melancholy of the loveliest poetry by Pablo Neruda . 5. I can't use my collection of random bookmarks: my very first company calling card, the latest receipt that I grieved over or a cute cut-out of a magazine. 6. The 101 Must Visit Destination and the Sandman: Dream Hunters aren't made for electrons. 7. The battery never dies on my paperback of A...

A beautiful, absorbing memoir of a precocious little girl living far away from her own home, who bloomed with the most exquisite grace and became Gion's Mineko , one of the most famous geisha in her era. To learn more information, check out online accredited colleges to find history classes that can teach you about Japanese Culture and the secret world of Geisha. Masako Tanaka was a quiet little girl of independent means. Willful, clever, and often a little too proud, she lived her idyllic life before she decided to agree to go to an okiya to save her parents. She is taken in the Iwasaki okiya when she was barely 5 years old. Masako was going to be legally adopted into the Iwasaki household, and was deemed to be the apparent successor of the establishment. Though struggling to understand the situation as only a little girl can, she adapted to her new environment, came to get used to her small living quarters and had developed a relationship with the women of the okiya . And it...

As every compulsive book buyer may know, only the money in your pocket is the limit! I myself absolutely adore books, but with the income of a struggling writer I can only buy so much but I always end up wanting more than I could afford. I head off to the nearest book sale for a generous helping of pre-owned books, but I find some of the coveted titles are not there. It's really hard to get a specific title or author, and you're not even sure if it's there or if you're going to find it. The popular authors I love are still hot on the shelves of big bookstore chains, especially the "Mecca" of bookworms in the world, Barnes & Noble . No matter how you love books, you are always hindered by its price tags. Since prices are high especially if the book is on this week's Bestseller List! Contemporary authors are popular and their books are pricey because of the fan base and followers, but it doesn't mean you have to wait until the next sale, knowing you...

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife... " So starts the best love story ever told. Jane Austen writes this shining piece of romantic literature, Pride and Prejudice , considered as one of her greatest masterpiece. It has the highest fan base among all her novels. Set in early 19th Century in a society where women were born and raised to meet specific requirements to be eligible for matrimony. They were artistic, musical, all loveliness and graceful submission. Because unlike the men of the era, it is only in marriage that a woman can claim to have a respectable social status and an easy access to wealth. The Bennett family of Hertfordshire has not one, not two, but five daughters of marriageable age. The book is largely centered on one of the daughters, Elizabeth, the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Elizabeth is a down-to-earth, level-headed woman of quick wit. She is considered ...

There's nothing more fitting as a first post than a feature on my favorite book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin . This novel by Louis de Bernières is set in the pre-WWII era. It tells of the story of a community in the small Greek island of Cephalonia. It centers on the life of a Pelgaia Iannis , a fiercely independent and loving daughter of a well-loved village doctor, and the apple of the eye of Mandras , a Cephalonian fisherman of simple means. Despite the idyllic and oftentimes funny going-ons in this small island, there was a sudden tension in the when the Italian forces found their way to their remote village, getting ready to heighten their forces for the upcoming war. Captain Antonio Corelli is the officer-in-charge of the Italian regiment that settled in the heart of Cephalonia. Polite and cultured Antonio Corelli could not understand the vehemence of the villagers. The tension runs thick as Greek and Italian cultures clash and the people of Cephalonia treat the soldiers ...