Twilight

TWILIGHT

Introduction

Twilight is the first book of the famous Twilight Saga Series written by Stephenie Meyer in 2005. It's a romantic fantasy novel with the concept of a human falling in love with a vampire. The book is from the perspective of the female lead. The emotions are expressed beautifully by the use of good vocabulary. The novel focuses on the attraction of a human girl toward 103 old vampires and how they face the challenges life gives their way. 

This book by Stephenie Meyer is inspired by one of her dreams about a human girl and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood. Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the draft of chapter 13 of the book. She wrote from chapter 13 to the end of the novel and then covertly filled in the first 12 chapters with no ideal audience in mind or any intention of publishing the novel.

Book Name: Twilight Saga

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Genre: Vampire, Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance

Language: English

The story begins with a girl who recently moved to her father's place in Forks, but she didn't know that she would encounter many dangerous and life-threatening experiences there. She falls in love with a guy who behaved strangely around her, who was a vampire named Edward Cullen, living in the Forks with his family. The story weaves itself showing their curiosity and interest in each other, the book also has an entrance of the second lead who doesn't have much role in the first book but later you will find his importance, not going to break the suspense. It also shows that the creatures who crave human blood can also take a safer path to keep themselves humane which depicts that even people who can't control their circumstances can be good too, for example, Edward Cullen's foster father, Carlisle. 

However, you can find the concept a little strange if you are a practical person, the reason being it shows how the girl behaves with no self-preservation instincts and gets attracted to the dangers. If you are not a fan of facts, you will love the book as you will feel as if you are living in it. The emotions and descriptions are great and you will feel yourself falling for the male lead as well.

Also, you would like the playful nature of Edward's brother and the carefree but responsible father of the female lead. 

The ending is convincing but not exactly nice as she got hurt and became so close to her death.

About the Author: 

Stephenie Meyer, born December 24, 1973, is an American writer and film producer. She is best known for writing the vampire romance series Twilight, which has sold over 100 million copies and been translated into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in the US, having sold over 29 million books in 2008 and over 26.5 million books in 2009. Meyer received the 2009 Children's Book of the Year award from the British Book Awards for Breaking Dawn, the Twilight series finale. 

With no prior writing experience, she had the idea for the Twilight series in a dream. Influenced by the works of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, she soon wrote Twilight. After many rejections, Little, Brown, and Company offered her a $750,000 three-book deal, which led to a four-book series, several side novels, novellas, and a string of commercially successful film adaptations.

Famous Quotes

• "When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end."
• "I made the cowardly lion look like the terminator."
• "You are exactly my brand of heroin."
• "Until my heart stops beating."
• "We’ll be watching."

Bottom Line:

The conclusion can be that the book is worth reading either way if you think Bella took the right decision or not. Also, it creates suspense for the upcoming books as the story has just begun. One will enjoy reading about the blacks as well.

My rating for the book is 4.4/5 

Wings of Fire

Wings of Fire

Book Name: Wings of Fire

Author Name: A P J Abdul kalam, Arun Tiwari

Genre: Autobiography

Language: English

“Wings of Fire” An Autobiography of Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India. It was written by Dr. Abdul Kalam and Mr. Arun Tiwari, a well-known missile scientist was a colleague of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Dr. Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck, and the chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs.

Friends, I don’t have that much knowledge to make a judgment on this book, I just want to express some of my thought with you and what I have learned from this book “Wings of Fire”.

About the Author

“Avul Pakir Jainulabeen Abdul Kalam” his full name, The author was born and raised on Mosque Street in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. He served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. 

Greatly admired all over India, he was a scientist by profession, who played a leading role in developing the country’s missile program. From humble roots in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. Dr. kalam in an inspirational autobiography ‘ The Wings of Fire’ traces the rise and the make he made his life.

Arun Tiwari rose to fame as an author with his book Wings of Fire, which he co-authored with Dr. A.P.J Abdul kalam. He has written several books and co-authored five books with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. He contributed to the design of the missiles. Tiwari has been the director at the Cardiovascular Technology Institute in Hyderabad. He received the Defence Technology Spinoff Award for developing the Kalam-Raju stent.

About the Book:

This book contains the life of a simple yet determined person. There is so much knowledge and good things that everybody can extract from this book. Reading this book is a very heartwarming and beautiful experience.

This book contains a very detailed description of how great things can be achieved through simple thoughts. This book conveys the message of the authors that always keep your dream high, your goal clear, plan perfectly and do hard work.

The story is all about a warm and intensely personal, deeply passionate, common boat – owner’s son who has become India’s most distinguished living technocrat. The pure faith in God and deep kindness, dealing life with positivity, science, and technological advancements, Love toward one country and many more things are mentioned in this book.

The book is full of insights, personal moments, and life experiences of Dr. APJ Kalam. It gives us an understanding of his journey of success.

This is a story of a boy who was born in a normal and middle-class family. He had a curiosity about aeronautical engineering. He faced so many failures during launching the satellite called SLV [Satellite Launching Vehicle] but he proved that anything can be achieved by keep trying because when you become a failure then you go one step closer to success.

The author, by narrating his life journey evokes the reader to identify with one’s inner fire and potential, for he was of the firm belief that each one of us was born with the strength and potential to make a tangible change in the world. How he inspired himself to achieve his dream and how he went about accomplished so much is what the book captures nicely.

The book recollects many anecdotes and stories from childhood, his time at school and college, He wrote the time spent at the Langley Research Center, NASA and Wallops Flight Facility gets a lot of attention.

Personal tragedies have not left been left out. The time when he lost his father and how he felt when conferred with many awards like the Padma Bhushan have been written in much detail.

The second half of the book deals with the author, the scientist who made a significant contribution in developing the country's guided missile program, a pioneering effort for the security of the nation. It’s not with reason that he was nicknamed the ‘ Missile Man of India’.