THE BOOK OF DREAMS PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Tim Severin | 352 pages | 01 Oct 2015 | Pan MacMillan | 9781447212140 | English | London, United Kingdom a book review by Michael J. McCann: The Book of Dreams: A Novel He ends up in the Wellington Hospital in a coma. Meanwhile, we also experience the dream-like state in which Henri is stranded as his body struggles to heal and his mind tries to escape from the coma. Perhaps the best drawn of the three is young Sam, who has an IQ of and is a synesthete, someone whose brain tends to translate physical perceptions into colors. Because she is now alone in the world, hospital staff know almost nothing about Maddie that could be used to coax her back to awareness, and Sam makes it his mission to learn all he can about her. Eddie Tomlin is an interesting character who carries the spear for Nina George when it comes to writers and books. He steps through the door and finds himself back in his office, but in a different life. He steps through the next door to something different once again and quickly becomes lost in a maze of alternate realities. Dreams take us into remote past, allowing once again going through both joyous and sad events of our lives. Sometimes dreams offer us magical pictures of the future, allowing us to see what we could not imagine in the present. We remember some dreams clearly and for a long time, but immediately forget the others just having woken up. All of that is the wonderful world of our dreams. The content of our dreams has long been one of the great mysteries of humanity. At different times, people had very different ideas about the meaning of dreams. Interpreting the mysteries of dreams, people tried to look into the future, understand and learn about the mysteries and riddles, which fate had prepared for them. They also tried to analyze the past, which opening up from a new side, made it possible to see something important that had escaped the attention. It needs a real art to interpret a dream, as a dream can become a true warning for us, can promise us joy and prosperity, and can warn us of impending troubles and illnesses. It can give us a promise of forthcoming love and happy private life, but may be a harbinger of disease or somebody's death. Dreams can help us enjoy future positive moments of life and prevent unwelcome events that recur in our lives. There is a great number of options for the interpretation of dreams and almost all of them are collected in dream interpretation books and collections of dreams' dictionaries. The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers , and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. The novel opens 14 years later as Desiree, fleeing a violent marriage in D. Marrying a dark man and dragging his blueblack child all over town was one step too far. Stella, ensconced in White society, is shedding her fur coat. Jude, so Black that strangers routinely stare, is unrecognizable to her aunt. All this is expertly paced, unfurling before the book is half finished; a reader can guess what is coming. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. The scene in which Stella adopts her White persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion. Bennett keeps all these plot threads thrumming and her social commentary crisp. In the second half, Jude spars with her cousin Kennedy, Stella's daughter, a spoiled actress. A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity, by the author of Dickens. This tells of the revolt on a farm, against humans, when the pigs take over the intellectual superiority, training the horses, cows, sheep, etc. The first hints come with the reading out of a pig who instigated the building of a windmill, so that the electric power would be theirs, the idea taken over by Napoleon who becomes topman with no maybes about it. Napoleon trains the young puppies to be his guards, dickers with humans, gradually instigates a reign of terror, and breaks the final commandment against any animal walking on two legs. The old faithful followers find themselves no better off for food and work than they were when man ruled them, learn their final disgrace when they see Napoleon and Squealer carousing with their enemies A basic statement of the evils of dictatorship in that it not only corrupts the leaders, but deadens the intelligence and awareness of those led so that tyranny is inevitable. Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody. Already have an account? The Book of Dreams: A Novel by Nina George, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Bennett keeps all these plot threads thrumming and her social commentary crisp. In the second half, Jude spars with her cousin Kennedy, Stella's daughter, a spoiled actress. A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity, by the author of Dickens. This tells of the revolt on a farm, against humans, when the pigs take over the intellectual superiority, training the horses, cows, sheep, etc. The first hints come with the reading out of a pig who instigated the building of a windmill, so that the electric power would be theirs, the idea taken over by Napoleon who becomes topman with no maybes about it. Napoleon trains the young puppies to be his guards, dickers with humans, gradually instigates a reign of terror, and breaks the final commandment against any animal walking on two legs. The old faithful followers find themselves no better off for food and work than they were when man ruled them, learn their final disgrace when they see Napoleon and Squealer carousing with their enemies A basic statement of the evils of dictatorship in that it not only corrupts the leaders, but deadens the intelligence and awareness of those led so that tyranny is inevitable. Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody. Already have an account? Log in. Trouble signing in? Retrieve credentials. Sign Up. Page Count: Publisher: Crown. Review Posted Online: Dec. Show all comments. More by Nina George. New York Times Bestseller. IndieBound Bestseller. Inseparable identical twin sisters ditch home together, and then one decides to vanish. Page Count: Publisher: Riverhead. Show comments. More by Brit Bennett. More About This Book. Pub Date: Aug. Page Count: Publisher: Harcourt, Brace. In analyzing your dreams, you can learn about your deep secrets and hidden feelings. Remember that no one is a better expert at interpreting your dreams than yourself. To guide you with your dreams interpretations, we have interpreted over keywords and symbols and over 20, different meanings in our ever expanding dream dictionary. There is no "one dream interpretation fits all. Every detail, even the most minute element in your dream is important and must be considered when analyzing your dreams. Each symbol represents a feeling, a mood, a memory or something from your unconscious. Look closely at the characters, animals, objects, places, emotions, and even color and numbers that are depicted in your dreams. Even the most trivial symbol can be significant. Book of Dreams - Steve Miller Band, Steve Miller | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic I love when authors are willing to take chances and just go for it in order to tell the story they want and I appreciate when publishers give them the opportunity to do this as well. Such a great read and I look forward to checking out the author's other novels. Read this book if you are up for the challenge that it might be a high risk, but high reward type read. Thank you to First to Read for the opportunity to read an advance digital copy! I was under no obligation to post a review and all views expressed are my honest opinion. View all 10 comments. The Book of Dreams surprised me in the best of ways. Henri Skinner, one of our main characters, is a former war reporter. While literally on his way to see his son, he is injured and rushed to the hospital. While there, he i The Book of Dreams surprised me in the best of ways. While there, he is comatose and vividly dreaming about the secrets of his past. Also at the hospital is Madelyn, a twelve-year-old who is also in a coma. She has survived an accident that killed every member of her family. Each character is dreaming of hope and fighting for life in their own way, and together, they are bonded by these wistful wants. Gosh, The Book of Dreams gave me so much to think about. First, it had me feeling deeply for its characters, and then it transferred to real life, as the story became so earnest, it felt real and luminescent. The Book of Dreams is deeply emotional and soaringly rewarding. I cried until I felt that ache in my chest. I had the hardest time letting go of this story and turning the last page. There is sadness, loss, and tragedy here, as is hope. I received a complimentary copy. All opinions are my own. My reviews can also be found on my blog: www. View all 25 comments. The ripples of tragedies were too sensory overloaded for me.