What Makes Life Worth Living In The Face of Death? There are just a lot of emotions flowing as I write this. So compelling a read, it is a shattering and intimate book. When Breath Becomes Air is a sorrowful tale of doctor Paul Kalinithi. All his life, he pursued neuroscience as a deep passion. And after decades of striving and hard work in residency, when he was just months away from realizing his dream, he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. In an instant, his life upturned as a neurosurgeon-scientist, a doctor, to that of a cancer patient. He did not even know whether he had some months or years left. All his life, he wondered how to lead a meaningful life. Or what makes a life worth living. Despite being a surgeon witnessing death on a near-daily basis, he found his answer by facing his own death. These questions about life and death make this book a universal read. He wrote this story just months before his death. Yet, he wrote a story so intimate and compelling. H...
"Open your eyes and see what you can do with them before they close forever." War Stories have a different place in my heart. All the suffering and pain, I wonder whether it is worth it. Everybody loses the war in the end. All The Light We Cannot See is one such story. Not a great one, but a good one indeed. Set in the time of World War 2, the story is the coming together of two worlds. It shuffles between the world of Marie-Laure, a young girl in Paris, and Werner, a German boy, at a time when both the countries are at war. Marie-Laure, who became blind early in her childhood, lives with her father in Paris. He works for the National Museum of History in charge of its numerous locks. The other world belongs to Werner, a German boy and an orphan. Enthused by science since childhood, he is very skilled at repairing radios and was appointed to the brutal Hitler Army to detect and destroy the enemy's broadcasting messages. With Germany's invasion of Paris, Marie-Laure a...