6 books that I have read recently.
- True Singapore Ghost Stories Book 13
Author: Russell Lee - The story Of Cars
Author: Katie Daynes - The Shocking Story of Electricity
Author: Anna Claybourne - Sum Rithy: Surviving The Genocide In the land of Angkor
Author: Kok-Thay Eng - The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexander Dumas - Anne Frank
Author: Susanna Davidson
Summary of the 1st Book:
The Story of Cars
Author: Katie Daynes
Non-Friction
The Story of Cars
The Story of Cars described how cars were created and improved though the years. Many inventors like Karl Benz to Gottlieb Daimler changed the way cars evolved to cater to the different audiences.
The invention of cars started as early as 1400 when Italian invention Leonard Da Vinci had drew up plans of how a car look like.
It was until centuries later in 1700 when Nicholas Joseph Cugnot created a steam engine cart that moves on iron tracks. Sir Goldsworthy took Nicholas idea and improved it further by making the vehicle move on the road instead on iron track.
Moving away from stream engine, inventors tried using electric in the form of batteries but it did not work out. Finally Etienne Lenoir created an engine that was powered by petrol.
In 1886 German engineer Karl Benz designed and built the first petrol driven vehicle which consist of three wheels, one seat and a small engine at the back.
At about the same time, another German, Gottlieb Daimler tried his engine inside a carriage and developed the world’s first four-Wheeled car.
As years go by, the design of cars and technology improved tremendously. New brands like Rolls-Royce,Austin seven, Flat and Porsche came into the market.
Meanwhile, in US, the Americans were designing bigger, longer and higher fuel consumption vehicles. Their designers were very creative and came out with many attractive and unique designs to attract the potential buyers. Many people used the make used of their vehicles o race and break speed records.
In conclusion, with so many cars polluting the environment today. Engineers are racing against time to create new vehicles using renewable energy to reduce air pollution. We must also do our parts by using more public transports and purchase electric cars.
Summary of the 2nd Book:
Sum Rithy – Surviving The Genocide In the land of Angkor
Author: Kok-Thay Eng
Non-Friction
Sum Rithy Surviving The Genocide in the Land of Angkor
The story described how Sum Rithy and his comrade suffering under the Khmer Rouge regime and how they were tortured and executed. Sum Rithy was lucky to escape to live to tell the ordeal.
Sum Rithy life is a tale of family, love and resilience. The hard times he had to survive under the hands of Khmer Rouge. He is also one of the only people who survived the most notorious prison in Siem Reap province.
This is a testimony of the suffering and death of almost 10,000 people who were captured to the prison. They were tortured and starved to the extent that they ate insects and they were eventually executed somewhere in the forest along the way to Angkor Wat.
In conclusion, The Cambodia Genocide was carried out by Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot. It started in 1975 and ended in 1979 with almost 2 million death. The regime was eventually removed from power in 1979 by the Vietnamese Invasion. The Cambodia’s vowed to not such cruelty towards mankind ever since.
Summary of 3rd book
Anne Frank
Author: Susanna Davidson
Non-Friction
The Story of Anne Frank
The Story of Anne Frank talked about how her family sought refuge during WW2 when the Nazi’s came to round them up in her dad’s office which has a secret annex. Together with their family friends, they were captured and brought to a concentration camp to perform hard labour which led to Anne, her sister Margot and her mother Edith’s death eventually. After the war, Anne’s father Otto returned to Amsterdam and found that he was the only survival. Miep who is Otto’s cousin gave him Anne’s diary. There was a particular line in Anne’s diary that made Otto decide to publish and devoted himself to share Anne’s diary to the rest of the world. The line was. “I want to go on living after I am dead….”
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