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Do you ever wonder how different your life might have been, had you, in a particular instance in your past,  made a decision instead of the one you made; a life altering decision that would change the course of your life forever?  Blake Crouch's Dark Matter deals with the same premise with the different outcomes of differing decisions spread over the multiverse, which is branching and expanding with every decision. Jason Dessen, a blooming scientist in his 20's, gives up his research and ambition to settle a family with the woman he loved. Now, working as a physics teacher at a highschool, he seldom wonders what he gave up, as he is happy with the decision he made to settle with his wife.  One night, while returning from a local bar, he is attacked, taken hostage and then drugged. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a lab where everybody seems to know him but he doesn't recall meeting or knowing anyone. To clear his mind, he runs away from the lab and finds that everyt...

In Cold Blood tells the story of real life murders of the clutter family at their residence in 1959. Herb Clutter, his wife and two children lived in Holocomb, Kansas. They were ranchers by profession and were a pretty well-off family in the farming dependent neighborhood. The story is not written in a single point of view but with several characters throughout the chapters taken as the first person.  “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.” The book is a very interesting read wherein it tells the story of the murder and the process to bring the culprits under conviction. The book focuses the most on the nature of the convicts, delving deep into their past, their thoughts which make the book further interesting and difficult to put down. The characters of the perpetrators are written in a criminally immaculate manner. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, two ex-convicts are proven to be the murderers wherein they travelled nearly 800 miles up and down in a sin...

Teach me to be the sea vast, limitless, yet Pacific where I work for others and be a pillar of modesty. Teach me to be the sun even though far away, still warm and bright helping myself by helping others emblazing them with light. Teach me to be a flower bright, colorful, cheering everyone enjoying being the reason of smiles not caring for anything in return. Teach me to be a tree that is firm on the ground and brings fruits and shade let my nature be the shade and morals the root no one has to ask twice, wouldn't that be great? Teach me to be a house a comfort zone, a Serene place make my heart so gentle and big everybody gets their space. Teach me to be the wind so gentle, a symbol of coolness no one has to ask for more no one gets no less.                                          ...

A boy of six, Neil Spencer has been abducted in Featherbanks. The police led by Amanda Beck is investigating the case. Detective Pete Willis lived near the crime scene (the last place where Neil Spencer had been seen heading towards), so joined the search. Pete Willis had been responsible for catching Frank Carter also known as The Whisper man, who had murdered five children around twenty years ago. Frank Carter’s personality put a heavy toll on Pete, mentally; in that Pete had never been able to find the body of Frank’s last victim and Frank always teased him about it. The search goes on but to no fruition, until two months later when Neil Spencer’s body is found at the same place that he was taken from. The way the body had been arranged reminded the police of The Whisper Man. Even the name of the village was warm and comforting. Featherbanks. It sounded like a place where we would be safe. “Whispering,” Jake said quietly. “what?” “Whispering.” “It was whispering at my wind...

PLOT Barry Sutton, NYPD is on call for a woman attempting suicide by jumping off a building. When Barry reaches the floor to try to talk her off the suicide, she confesses that she has FMS, False Memory Syndrome. She tells him that one day she got a severe headache and nosebleed and she was in a place she had no idea how she got there. Also, she had memories of her life where she had a husband and a son and when she tried to contact her husband, she found out that he was married to his past wife who she remembers to have committed suicide by jumping off a building. "Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured." Barry is unable to save the woman and decides to meet the husband she talked about. At first, the husband straight up denies remembering her but afterwards gives him a call about doing something bad in a hotel. Barry finds the hotel and enters; her...