Durdana Baloch

_The Silent Patient_ _From Alex Michaelides_ It's a thriller story, I hope to express it exceptionally & beautifully in spite of the fact that I know it's more than that, it's carries diverse characters at the same time, at the starting it appears slower but after you reach up to the chapters ahead it's like appalling, Alicia being the artist inspires me a lot that with this ability, that how she expresses herself and so gifted she is there. It incites alot interest and, It provokes alot of curiosity and emotions, like anyone would love to read it and finish it at the same time. Alicia being the artist and Gabriel her spouse having connection behind her back get caught by "Theo Faber" as like a deductive being the Alicia's shrink, who get to discover that Gabriel is in relationship with her spouse "Kathy". He ends it up destroying "Gabriel" but three more lives as well. His own, Alicia's as being quiet for ages after her spouse death, and Kathy's his own spouse. From here the title is taken as the silent patient because after the death of Alicia's spouse, she remains silent and deadly until she is provoked by his therapist Theo. So it's a thriller story, in the conclusion you get to discover the result that Alicia wasn't the killer of his spouse Gabriel but Theo himself was. I am glad that I got the opportunity to read this in few time and literally it's now one of my favorite novel. Must go for it, it's exceptionally very interesting builds up alot of curiosity. And Alex Michaelides has written it uniquely. PS: To Alicia, it was alot to bear.

_Ikigai_ The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life Ikigai: It simply means purpose in life, It talks about how to step back from a fast-paced routine and think about life holistically and through Japanese concept it refers to long and happy life, It talks about Japanese culture and how important Ikigai ( Purpose of life ) is for them and I found through this book why it's important for us to live a meaningful life. As beautifully it says " The art of staying young while growing old " where actually we are far back from this concept though in this book it expresses a lot about positivity and actual way of living a happy life and the focus was more on longevity and things necessary to achieve that how a simple life can be a happy life. This book teaches us to find out our ikigai ( Purpose in Life) and it may take some time but after that it will be worth it and will pay off. I recommend you all to go for this book and it's an easy read too.

From Yuval Noah Harari _Sapiens_ I recommend this remarkable tome to all sapiens , this will answer a lot of questions to you , I recommend this informative book to all Humankinds because it's like a giant review written for sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari , it will just get to open your mind , it's an incredible piece of tool to make us think and rethink about humankinds , how the world came into being, how we sapiens evolved , how we got resources , from fire , from money , from farming and from science , this is a giant book of 498 pages I literally can't say it's easy to read this book in just few days but , I don't how I ended this book in a short period of time, just because I couldn't cease off passing the pages full of information , I got curious more & more , when I just started reading it from the 1st day , this kept me engaged , and this book had an impact of , How I see the people and the world around me , and most importantly the effort put by Yuval Noah Harari is highly appreciable , He has dealt with history of humankind very systematically, this book is highly insightful and inspiring , it also answers ( if you have a Why to live , You can bear almost any How ) I recommend to those who like challenges and want to think out of the box. It's " A Must Read Book " for every Humankind.

_From Franz Kafka_ "The Metamorphosis" _Gregor Samsa the traveling salesman, one day wakes up and turn into a creepy crawly animal in bed, it's genuine ponders that what had happened to him and everything looks so distinctive for him there. In any case he gazes at the clock seeing that time is passing and I can get up and go to work. What he feels is baffled by this, he tries alot to induce up but his contemplations pulling him towards his work and getting stressed around the work & family considering around it. That how my family will survive and what about my boss, that I was always an active worker, absenteeism wasn't my kind of thing, though what happened to me today, so by this line the despondency begins that in this circumstance, he is still considering almost his work and everything he considers that how his family be surmounting all the obligation his father has to pay, but the response of his family which is nothing but a lose of his earning son into an insect and they can't find him again, therefore circumstance getting more regrettable and more awful, his family extraordinarily his sister getting chafed from him, that how he slithers and bounced once more and once more by this circumstance. His father Mr. Samsa hit him because of his creepy actions & he becomes sick and he dies one day, the day he dies the charwoman brooms him out of the house by this their family begins to start a unused life, move the other loft and begin trusting to move forward in spite of the fact that Grete Samsa there daughter will be their future sustenance, by the little rundown of it. Took me to the despondency that a working person when got nothing to do and can't work any longer, how is burnt with depression and profundity and has got to confront death at the end.