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This was an utterly heartwarming novel that was and will always be available for those who are in despair, getting lost in this so-called life thing, and grieving upon it. It surely has a self-help sort of nature with it, which I don't find it the least bit annoying. Rather, I would say it was quite necessary to have a book focusing on that topic, especially for the time we are in.

I like the way how philosophers are being quoted throughout the book, and I found it even more compelling to see how a philosophy graduate cannot help herself even after studying about the subject. To me, it seems like it is a notion of ambiguity that Nora has, that she was actually willing to live and die at the same time; not loving others but actually wanted to be cared for; wanting to achieve something or to commit but eventually stop midway... I wouldn't say this is an absurd idea to put in a novel, but that is what life is—you get stuck sometimes, and for me it's how you're going to get through the rigmarole and to seek a meaning from it.

It helps me to realise, also, what a life I would like myself to be in. But then there's no ends if you skip the process, and yet it's still long way to go for all of us, isn't it? So a few more words to go, this book helps to alleviate the pain you're experiencing at the moment, and it's not some sort of inundated self-help guru recommended type of book. I think there's still the essence of it, as speaking of the book alone.

Give the book a read, there's surely some enlightening ideas for you to grab some bits of.

This is a book that perhaps, if time allows, one might as well go through the context again for multiple times.

It was written in a morose tone, and it was about nothing exquisite, heroic, or you might call it a book of the defeated, who are unable to summon the right life-a friendship with great depth and proximity, a marriage of mutual respect, not founded on love, as Stoner stumbled his way towards the end-where cancer paved the path and death awaited before him.

It was a life of no significance, as brought up at the very first of the book. Stoner was no much of a hero, his presence meant little to the field he was deeply rooted and found a profound love for. To his daughter and wife, he was just a man who supported their living and lived in their household. To Lomax, he was a target for his utter of hatred, as his stubbornness prohibited them to get along well due to a talented student.

Academically, the book serves a purpose for all literature lovers as it connected the contexts of different proses, works, arts written by famous writers like Shakespeare, Shelley, etc. Despite that facet of the book it reigned, to me, the emphasis was more about the life Stoner led himself into-for sure he couldn't lead all of it. The melancholy he experienced each time was heartfelt, as the words brought me along with him. And how it was to be, after all, numb by all the events one had gone through in his life. It was to no uncertainty that I found myself resonating with every single word used to describe Stoner's internal feelings without difficulty. It was so smooth, so realistic, so beautifully written.

And I believe as well, that we might all find little parts of ourselves in the book, whenever we felt aloof, distracted by people, or due to that long-bore loneliness that we carried within ourselves since the date we met the earth. It was with great pleasure I had found in reading the piece of work, despite its contextual remorse.

If you can, don't just give it a read, but serveral.

So basically this book, to me, was full of love, hope and nature. I totally appreciate the writing style of Delia, putting pillars of clues of a murder with Kya's growth from a wild girl into a woman who could read and write well. Surely, the suspense in this book was very well shaped, it keeps you digging more and more as to know what will happen next. What more to say is the theme of the book, the core of how isolation can affect we humans, the social mammals at all. It was really deep to me that the long lack of love and care of Kya could cause her to react so strongly when to deal with sexual violence. She was long abandoned by her family, so she seek the sense of community, living like everyone else does, and to understand that she was forever an outcast of the place, leaving her with wild until her death. It was a heartwarming book. It taught us there's love and hope, and there'll always be pain while dealing with people. And to illustrate the point that us, humans, as often the intruders of nature, breaking the perfect balance between nature and living species, just like the town in North Carolina slowly turning into a commercial and developed place within years. It gets rarer and rarer for us to live fully by wild every now and then. So as to treasure the sight of nature's beauty presence while we still can, do our part to not destroy it as much as we can.
Indeed a very well-written novel.

It was very resourceful to read this book and to adjust our tendency to bias facts due to exposure in mass media as we are living in the age of technology, fast-spread messages and news, that everything comes in a snap and we absorb them without filtering the knowledge through our brain first.

In my opinion, Hans Rosling has done perfectly well in awing readers with his straight forward and engaging, simple but clear language to deliver us the main theme throughout the book–we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, yet also by the history of humankind. It highlights the point where we should learn to view things in an up-to-date manner, and rather not judged by the fact or so-called leaps in technology advancement we've made–especially for the western countries, that western still dominates the world in a “privileged” way, ahead of all its rivals. Indeed, it continues to emphasise on the misjudge in facts, mostly based on the old facts opinions that were embedded among us and harvested to other ones as we grow up. Our world view is outdated. And yet we shall learn to change our view on that.

It is an incredibly useful book in proving common misconceptions wrong, alongside the facts and the uses of data that helps to establish another new level of understanding in the current global situation. Worthy to read.