What it means when a man falls from the sky
Author: Lesley Nneka Arimah
Genre: Fiction, Short Stories
When i read the first paragraph in the first story, i thought i will never like this book and probably would stop in the middle but glad i finally finished it. This book makes me overwhelmed. First, she chose a very poetic words for such a short story. Second, for me, all stories have vague story line which made me out of place and often re-read it over and over again. Third, she used simple dialogs in between, like only one or two sentences but some..hit me so hard. Last, some made me confuse but so into it at the same time The first story called "The future looks good", i depicted this story by only one scene of a girl named Ezinma trying to unlock a door with her keys but then it let us float into what made Ezinma be in her place now, past memories about her family and all the chaos in her life, flowed slowly until it reached the unpredictable shocking ending i was not ever prepare for. It consist of 12 different stories and i'm not gonna tell all of the stories in this book but most of them are about grief or pretty heart breaking with some background of unhealthy family relationship and also non-fiction fantasy character. I guess most of people who have read this book might love the "What it means when a man falls from the sky" (as it became the title of this book). My favorite story is the one with title "What is a Volcano?", story about dissension between the goddess of rivers and the god of ants, which in some ways i found it relevant to human relationship.
No one asked Ant what he thought of River, but someone should have known that you do not take small things from small men..
Author: E.J. Levy
Genre: Fiction, Short Stories
This book has 10 individual stories about heterosexual and homosexual relationship, family relationship and even relationship with God. All the stories have the same big theme of "love". I personally like this book because the stories seems so realistic (yet quirky) to the real events, It's definitely not the Nicholas spark's love story and also this book provides you with different kind of perspectives on how people define love and affection. I never knew about E.J. Levy before but i could tell she's overeducated cause the words sound so smart full of intelligence. I think that is one of other things that make these love stories different from other common love story that often more exploit emotion of readers rather than think realistically. This book is more pragmatic for me than just a 'theoretical' despite the title is in theory. I'm still not sure about which story is my favorite haha. It's not because i couldn't find wow-factor but just because i feel each story has its speciality that i wont let myself to compare to each other.
Reasons to Stay Alive
Author: Matt Haig
Genre: Non-fiction, Self-help (um maybe?)
I still did not sure what made Matt Haig had been so depressed but this book is about the memoir of his anxiety and depression, more about how he went through it. I'm not gonna say much for this book as it seems so obvious if you just read the description behind this book. But I thought it was gonna full of motivational words or wisdoms but apparently this book told more about why depression is something that can happen without exception and how does it really feel as someone holding this kinda miserable feeling. Maybe for someone who is going through the same feeling can be so relatable. Which i think thats why this book might help people battling with depression. Cause most of the time we only just need people who know what you feel rather than people who tell us what to do or give advice without knowing whats within, right? Other than that, what i found interesting in this book is also because Matt Haig several times indirectly mentioned about how his wife, Andrea deal with him. It implicitly gives me perspective on how important it is to have someone around when you dealing with depression.
I still did not sure what made Matt Haig had been so depressed but this book is about the memoir of his anxiety and depression, more about how he went through it. I'm not gonna say much for this book as it seems so obvious if you just read the description behind this book. But I thought it was gonna full of motivational words or wisdoms but apparently this book told more about why depression is something that can happen without exception and how does it really feel as someone holding this kinda miserable feeling. Maybe for someone who is going through the same feeling can be so relatable. Which i think thats why this book might help people battling with depression. Cause most of the time we only just need people who know what you feel rather than people who tell us what to do or give advice without knowing whats within, right? Other than that, what i found interesting in this book is also because Matt Haig several times indirectly mentioned about how his wife, Andrea deal with him. It implicitly gives me perspective on how important it is to have someone around when you dealing with depression.
To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames.
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