Inside Out Nana

My Women Empowerment and Education reading list includes remarkable books with very strong, eye opening and motivational messages  from exemplary women. Some of these contain harsh  real life stories,  show both the difficulties that these women have endured, and (thankfully) the ways they've managed to pull through! I have slowly collated this list through my own readings and through recommendations from friends and colleagues (some of which I'm yet to read), with the aim to  increase everyone's awareness on the importance of Women Empowerment.  I hope you find these books as encouraging and empowering as I did!  And if you have any recommendations or thoughts, do share them in the Comments section below! 1. Invisible Women -  Caroline Criado-Perez 2. Becoming -...

Book Author: Michelle Obama; Book Review by Bixuan Cheng  Summary In Becoming, Michelle Obama invites us into her life and covers her whole life story. It starts from when she was a little girl, sharing an upstairs' room with her parents and her brother in the south side of Chicago. She soon gained her footing in the world with solid supports from her family and  faith in education . Her story moves onto her studies at Princeton  and Harvard Law school, and soon enough with her  dedication  and  commitment , she became a high-powered corporate lawyer. However, once she’d checked off these big boxes on her life’s to-do list, she finds that she is not as fulfilled in life through the study and work of law as she expected she would be. One summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upend...

Dystopian Books are by far one of my favourite genres. They can be so thought provoking and teach us so many valuable lessons. Amongst my authors of choice we definitely have Margaret Atwood and George Orwell , whose famous novels are a must have in any comprehensive and stimulating reading list! Today I share two things to help you choose your next read: my classic dystopian books shortlist and a dystopian mind map showing the themes and interrelations between my chosen novels. Classic dystopian books Shortlist: 1984 - George Orwell The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood --> Followed by The Testaments Brave New World - Aldous Huxley --> Followed by Brave New World Revisited Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Animal Farm - George Orwell The Power - Naomi Alderman Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro The Maddaddam Trilogy - Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake The Year of the Flood Maddaddam Do you want to know how all the above books are related between each o...

Book Author: Jacqueline Novogratz; Book Review by Kritika Agrawal  Summary   The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz  After working as a Wall Street banker for three years, Jacqueline Novogratz realised that she wanted to make a bigger difference in the world. She decided to use her financial knowledge to help people suffering from poverty in Africa, so she travelled to Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and other poverty stricken countries to fulfill her goal. During this time she realised that when people are made accountable for their own business initiatives and development, their commitment is much stronger and their economic activities have a much higher chance for success. She also learnt that people in developing countries do not want "handouts", financial aid or crowds of volunteers, but rather, to earn the dignity that comes from being able to help themselves. The author's work used a patient capital approach: money was invested into ...