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Alaa Aroosi

Alaa Aroosi

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Youth and yearning
  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia
  • member since July 13, 2008

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  • Room
    • Rated 1 stars

    “Just because someone has a story that can be interesting at some level, doesnt mean it justifies her right to develop it into a book that lacks any interest because the story was handled the wrong way. If she let the mother takes the narration, then couple of pages of this book could have been spared the humiliating amount of grammatical as well as spelling errors.”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Monday, April 25, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Sh*t My Dad Says
    • Rated 1 stars

    “Okay serieously what kind of standards do they have for a puplishable memoir nowadays? There are like piles of memoirs and each memoirist is so convinced his childhood is a book worthy.”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Tuesday, February 1, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Million Little Pieces
    • Rated 1 stars

    “It looks like the main purpose of this memoir is to let James brag about his bad-ass-soul which he cares so much to show it off to the whole world rather than giving the reader the full benefit of learing from a story that could've ended in a real catasrophe.He has gone too far with those bad-ass tales of his that later on I didn't care much about the fabricated events he included in his "non-fection" ”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Wednesday, December 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • She's Come Undone
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Lamb who professes manipulating his readers' emotions, attaching them strongly to one of the most flawed characters that anyone could ever read about and then leaves them choking up in tears and helpless feeligs of sympthy,love and mourning.To have someone's flaws exposed-like Dolores had been exposed to us, gave us a better understanding of her negative attitude toward life and instead of abominating her we find ourselves drawn to her. I loved almost every part of this book espcially the period of time she spent meeting her shrink Dr.Shaw because to me, he and the obligation he felt toward Dolores has resembled me & many other readers who felt the same way toward her.”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Wednesday, December 8, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Rebecca Skloot has honored the legacy of Henrietta Lacks' life and her cells HeLa.Skloot starts from the very beginning of the story,the day in which she fisrt learned about those cells at the age of sixteen.She goes beyond telling the medical facts of HeLa and tell us the story of a hero whose cells were a revolution in science world and seemed to beneficial the whole world except the Lacks family , Day and his five children who never knew about their mom's cells growing and multiplying even after her death and only scientists researchers and hospitals seemed to be benefiting financially from those cells.The author has written three biographies into one book ; Henrietta's,HeLa's and Deborah's Henrietta's daughter.You cannot hate this book , all the questions it aroused in my head all the lessons it taught me all the tears it made me shed.”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Thursday, November 4, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Never Let Me Go
    • Rated 1 stars

    “how the author should have thought about his writing this book on a more deep level but I certainly don't care about this book neither about how the plot should have gone nor about the three characters whom I see as careless about changing their misfortuned future..”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Thursday, October 28, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Reliable Wife
    • Rated 2 stars

    “I could really rip this book in two and save only the first three chapters and some of the parts that shone with inspiring creativity and beauty.I don't know from which living creature the author has inspired Ralph Turitt's character, beacuse all he seemed to be doing was to me beyond logic, and absolutely unbelievable.He's so forgiving he doesn't mind getting killed, and he is so forgiving he doesn't mind being betryed by his wife, and this wife is very hypocritical and contradictory, but always at the last chance given she shows remorse for what she's been doing to the poor husband you wouldn't want her title as a Reliable Wife to be taken away and all of her crowns and sashes fall to the floor. ”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Tuesday, March 29, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • A Gate at the Stairs
    • Rated 5 stars

    “I'm going to stop here and bow to Lorrie Moore who just stole my heart , folded it carefully in this book , swung it back & forth and in a one moment changed every fact I knew about it, my heart.
    Tassie Keltjin a twenty year old college student who works as a babysitter for the brinks,a role model to her brother Robert who seems to be a little bit off the track,falls in love with a muslim student but then break up with him and the adopted baby she looks after is taken away by the adoption agency and her brother who gets killed in Afghanistan just after three weeks of his arrival at this point it dawned on her so she stumbles through her life trying to see how she relates to the world and this is where it's hard to hold back tears and hard not emerge without a broken heart.”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Tuesday, October 19, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Olive Kitteridge
    • Rated 3 stars

    “the title is the name of the character that is involved in most of the stories here.And as interesting as Olive- the connection between the stories- may be, it's not necessary that you get acquainted with her because she isn't that loving .were all the town's people finding her likable and sane? of course not as for the readers who as well will have different feelings towards her and that's what's most fascinating about her.Piano Player,Ship in Bottle and River were my favorite stories from this collection.”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Thursday, October 7, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Reader
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Even though the novel was short & easy to read there still had been those moments when I had to stop & think for so long for the book aroused a lot of questions concerning morality and personal values.I liked pretty much everything about the story except that I already knew its events because I have seen the movie a couple of months ago, so there have not been much of a thrill”

    Alaa Aroosi wrote this review Friday, September 24, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
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