6 posts about "nonfiction"

Matthieu Aikins follows a brown refugee from Afghanistan through to Europe. It gives you an inside view of a refugees journey, starting from the why, to the how.

I would have preferred to read an account written by an actual migrant first hand, but they are obviously too busy with a ton of real life issues to be writing books on a very dangerous journey.

The rise and fall of Arif Naqvi is fascinating, but I found this book a bit wanting.

First, the story itself:

It's a awesome political, economical and yes, climate overview of the planet and where its headed. Too much of future looking literature really holds its tongue. This is a no holds barred overview.

A book extract:

The book to read to get a handle of where Australia is today, and how politics works at the state and federal level.

Too Migrant, Too Muslim, Too Loud is a no-holds-barred memoir and manifesto from outspoken senator, trouble¬maker and multicultural icon Mehreen Faruqi. As the first Muslim woman in any Australian parliament, Mehreen has a unique and crucial perspective on our politics and democracy. It is a tale of a political outsider fighting for her right and the rights of others like her to be let inside on their terms.

This is a awesome read. In many countries, many people have long stopped wondering or caring about how their country actually functions, and this book takes us through a bunch of really useful government functions, from providing food and shelter to the needy to... just about everything you can imagine.

Than along comes a man (Trump) and his political appointee who could care less about reality and are busy throwing spanners in the very system that runs America - the many agencies which DO ALL THE THINGS.

Oh goody, yet another book written through colonial tinted glasses.

It's a well written, easy reading book so I can see why it's so popular, and if it was labeled fictional, I'd give it four stars, for fictional it is, speaking of a world where the British Raj and it's leaders brought civilization to the masses, but the masses turned the wise Brits away even though they were led by that holiest of holy cows, Lord Mountbatten - and this turning away caused mass bloodshed in the process. It's almost a biblical story, and no wonder so many people still think fondly of empire, they probably read books like this one.