Review #559: The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.”

----Peter Høeg

Leah Kaminsky, an award winning Australian author, has penned a terrific and extremely soul touching story in her debut book, The Waiting Room that revolves around a Jewish woman who is also a doctor living with her husband and son in Israel whose ordeal through out a single day after the warning about a possible bomb threat is strikingly captured by the author, as the woman whose deceased mother's ghost keeps haunting her about the days that she underwent during the Holocaust, and as her mother's voice runs through her head, her fear grips her completely, making her question her life in such an unsafe place.

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Review #167: The Book of Stone by Jonathan Papernick

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.”
---- Leo Strauss, a German-American philosopher and philologist of ancient Greek text

Jonathan Papernick, a Canadian author, penned his debut novel called, The Book of Stone after so many successful short stories, that revolves around a man whose fate drastically changes after his father's death leading to religious as well as social extremism not only in his country but also within himself.

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Review #50: Shanghai Love by Layne Wong

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Eric Michael Leventhal, a literary consultant and holistic educator on the island of Maui, Hawaii, has once quoted a remarkable line about the holistic approach of treatment:

“A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.”
And this defines the real definition of Chinese Herbal Healing Methods!

Layne Wong, an American author, has bring out the whole wide world of Chinese herbal medicinal practice, in her debut book, Shanghai Love, which is not only a love-story set up amidst of Hitler's raging war in Germany and the Japanese's wrath in Shanghai, but also delves into the exotic dimension of herbal healing methods in those oriental periods, in the late 1930s in the provinces and in the very core of the city, Shanghai.

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