Aicha Amano

I've been bit. Travel bug. Darn... it bites hard. I want to travel the entire world today. I feel like going on a travel rampage ever since I moved to this city. Before, I used to be a total settler, you know, the kind who's absolutely content at spending an entire lifetime in one place. Maybe it's the move that made me ballsy -- I realize that even if I uproot myself, nothing bad will happen to me, the world won't implode, my family wouldn't fall apart (yeah because I'm so  important a member!) and that my life wouldn't go haywire. I've been meaning to do international travel a year ago, but due to troubles with my nephew (who I had to take with me but there were problems with his passport blah blah) my Japanese visa went unused :( I was quite looking forward to it. I had my travel money saved up, a checklist of all the things I need to bring, travelogues and maps, and I even had entire playlist ready. I haven't quite moved on from that di...

Daughter to the famous British writer and woman’s activist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley managed to produce one of the most famous and well-discussed novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”As bearing witness to the great scientific upheaval that help give rise to the Industrial Revolution, Shelley managed to use the influence of science to explore the dangerous nature of the study. When it released in 1818, the book soared and became an instant success. Her husband, the equally gifted poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, famous for his poem “Ozymandias” helped her edit the original manuscript and get it published. While the husband and wife tandem became a source of tragedy outside of literature, they both managed to experience a great deal of success as writers. Written during the Victorian era, this book continues to be released for contemporary audiences, even found online as an eBook, as it continues to shine as it once did in 1818.   Plot Overview Victor Frankens...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the early 1970's at the onset of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Universities have closed down, scholars were exiled or thrown in jail, and books, deemed dangerous, were confiscated and burned in city squares. Anti-intellectual ideas were at an all-time high and the regime had managed to overthrow modern thinking. Online history classes at online universities should be able to teach you more about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. This novel by Dai Sijie is a story about two city-bred and educated teenage boys, 18-year-old Luo and the 17-year-old unnamed narrator of the story. Both were sent to be "re-educated" in an extremely remote mountain village called Phoenix of the Sky. The rural community is made up of peasants, lowly farmers and merchants who were given the authority to teach and guide the boys away from bourgeois thinking. The two young men have noticed that the villager's ideas primarily based on the...