Everything Everything -Nichola Yoon

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I felt little weird reading the end . Something was not right about how the disease being portrayed .
Does Carla or her mom always decontaminate themselves before meeting her . How come she can see everydetail of what Olly doing in his room from her window pane .isn't it too much !!!!
If you don't want to go deep into questioning your self you will enjoy the book.
The book is full of doodles and illustration drawn by maddie was quiet fun to read.

The Diary On the Fifth Floor - Raisha Lalwani

The Diary on the Fifth Floor by Raisha Lalwani
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Firstly the cover of the book is extremely attractive . It gives you a thriller / horror essence . But the story is nothing close to it .

The story is of Savannah Khanna 25 years old, depressed individual who feels uncomfortable in the surrounding world and visit a psychiatrist  to get help for the extreme negativity in her life. Her entire feeling has been written down in her diary which she gives to the doctor unwillingly. How will the doctor help her to get rid of so much hatred towards the world is what the entire book about.



The diary is of her thoughts written , about the world, and the doctor is her outlet.

Each chapter is like a slap to our face, showing the reality how mankind has become at present .

Example: When there is a death in the family, and someone post  FB status RIP. ( do you think it is necessary to let the world know?)

The book focuses on the mental health and how we should perceive the world. The more negativity we feed to ourself the more upset we will remain in our life.

Chapter 20, Princess gave me  a shiver - A woman  leaves her infant at home under care of  a nanny to resume with her job only tofind out the horror  happening with her baby.

Overall it's a good read. Enjoyed reading the harsh reality.

Just( Married) Missed- Himanshu Bhatia

Just  Married Missed

Author: Himanshu Bhatia

Total Number of Page: 232

Publisher: Petals Publisher

Blurb:

Siddharth Gupta 27 , ambitious hero gets pressurised from family to look for a  bride. Without much  eagerness he register himself in to a matrimonial site where he stumble upon Beauty with brain Shreya Malhotra. Soon they start going out and find themselves comfortable in each other's company.

Things were perfect ( imagine the violin play)  until Shreya goes for a vacation with her friends to Bangkok and meet the lover boy ,an extreme flirt Shivam Malhotra in the airport. With his cheesy lines he tries to flirt with Shreya ,but it made her irritated. Shivam  manages to woo  Shreya's friend and start dating her. With  few incident Shreya starts  liking Shivam soon after . On the otherside Sid  is all geared up for the marriage. Who will get the bride?

My view:

 Though I could guess the story  ,but still it was somehow unknown to me which made me hooked up till the end.

 I like Sid's character in this book.  The way he expressed his feeling was so honest and relatable, especially the time he went for the date with Shreya for the first time.

Didnt like Shivam though, but at times his way of respecting Shreya was very impressive.

All the characters were well portrait and each played a good amount of space. An easy and fun read .

Author Himanshu Bhatia can give a tough competition to ChetanBhagat  with his debut novel, a very very Bollywoody Just Married Missed, making box-office overflow.

Thank You Author Himanshu Bhatia for the copy.

Ratings: 3.5/5

A Drizzle In The Desert - P.C. Balasubramanian

Author: PC Balasubramanian

Pages:232

Publisher: Leadstartcorp

Price: Rs 249 

Excerpt From the Story:

The relationship between a parent and a kid is like the relationship between a man and a plant.The man sows the seeds and when he sees the first shoot of green emerging from the soul,he feels that is the best moment in his life.As the shoot grows he sees it every day,waters it ,protects it and nurture it.Once it becomes a plant, he relishes every moment looking at the new leaves ,bud, flowers as they blossom.When it grows bigger he may remove it from the pot and may replant it elsewhere. Now the plant need little less attention.Once it grows into a tree, you find that the tree has other duties as well. It has several branches ,many take shelter under the tree and several birds make the tree their home. The man the gardener who sowed the seed is not the sole owner. At best he can look at the tree ,feel it and take shelter.

Overview

Abhishek ( Abhi) , well settle in USA with his wife and a daughter gets a job at Neomart. The company soon  wanted to shift there base in India for it's growth. Abhi's wife  Anjali who is an architecture refuses to move to India. She suspect Abhi of having an affair with his college friend and bestie Deepali. Anjali  also dislike his father-in-law Mr Sundaram dedicating his entire life taking care of an unrelated man called Vasu.

Meanwhile  Deepali marry Karthik and join Neomart USA,but things doesn't go well between them.
Moving  to India, Abhi gets burdened with  request  from Deepali as well as from his father.

He needs carry out his father's request which is Vasu's last wish and also fix Deepali's life. Will Abhi come to know the reason behind his father's dedication? will he fulfil  Vasu's last wish? Will  Deepali find her happiness?

My Views:

If you are looking for some freshly baked  new stories , this one will cater your demand.

A story about relationship. 

A flawless fiction with a surprising twist at the end .

True to its title , the book has a strong message for everyone.

Why are we so judgemental without even knowing what is happening to other's  life?

Don't you think A relief from our guilt is much  like a drizzle in the desert?

Highly recommended to people who enjoy good storytelling.

Ratings:5/5

Book Review |My Mute GirlFriend - Himanshu Rai

Author@ Himanshu Rai

No of Page: 207

Publisher: Shristi Publishers.

From the Book - (BLURB)

" That day I realised I had lost her forever. I had lost her smile, her friendship , her voice...

But still ,somewhere in my heart , I believed her to be my girlfriend. My Mute girlfriend."

Rohan is a telecom professional posted in Meerut and misses his girlfriend from college days, who had stopped interacting with him, without giving any reason. Although she had always stood by his side and her eyes reflected immense love, but she remained his mute girlfriend. The book opens with an SMS from Vaidehi to Rohan, after five long years. But before he could reply, his mobile gets damaged and he wanders in his memories to narrate a story. About how his girlfriend became his mute girlfriend after the first year of their engineering college. My Mute Girlfriend is a true romance story of how Rohan unravels the answers to why Vaidehi was mute for so long and how their life is about to change. But little do they know that the worst is yet to come.


Overview:

The story is about Rohan and Vaidehi and their love. Rohan also had a huge crush on Navya , a girl from his school.  Though Vaidehi  was the  ultimate one for him, but he couldn't take Navya out from his memories. One fine day Vaidehi stopped talking to Rohan . Clueless Rohan was in immense shock and heart broken. 

What happened to Vaidehi that she stopped talking to Rohan for 5 years?   

What about Navya? 

Will Rohan get to know the reasons behind  Vaidehi's  unpredictable behaviour?

There is more to it.

My views:

The word " Mute" made me think the girl probably has speech problem. But I was completely wrong.

 A story  about  growing up, being respectful, loving family,  friendship , love and memories.

It' s an  innocent  romantic story and more enjoyable because it was the  golden 90's era where we actually enjoyed life without mobiles and internet.  

• From Rohan's  school days till his new job life you would not want to skip any pages.
• A very unpredictable  ending. The narration was easy and a visual treat . For the first time I DID  enjoy reading about the ragging in an engineering college.
• The book cover was pretty filmy.
•  Because of the unpredictable twist at the end I am rating it -

Rating: 4/5

Thank you author Himanshu Rai for  the book.

You can grab this book on amazon click - My Mute Girlfriend

Book Review |Chronicles of Kali- The secret Book of Asuras

Chronicles of Kali- The secret Book of Asuras

Author: Prithviraj Banerjee

Publisher:Vishwakarma Publications

No of Pages: 239

Available at Amazon:Buy the book

A little bit from the Mythology:

Goddess Kali  in Hindu religion represents the awakening  of the inner force  that destroy evil. She is also known as Shakti. In our ancient scripture the demon Raktabeej ( the blood seed) was given a boon  that his blood fell on ground would create more of such demon with increase strength.  It was only kali who  solved the vexing problem  by drinking up all the blood before it fell on the ground.  

A bit about the story:

The story starts off with the protagonist Kali,who was found by master Vyaas  floating on a raft in Ganga. Kali had supernatural power of being able to interact with nature. She was destined to do something big once for the human race,to save them and their thought process from the Asuras who have the secret to create disharmony. 

How will Kali find Asura in this modern age and save the human race? What secret has been written in the book of Asuras and where to find them?

My Views:

What fascinated me in the first place was the eye catchy brightly coloured illustration on the cover by the author himself.

The author has beautifully compared Asuras with human thought process.

The chapters are full of short mythological tales which make the story more interesting and fun to read making it more relatable to the modern age.

The characters have been developed  with much thoughts and research.

Being a mythology lover every chapter made me stick to the book till the end.

A very very thoughtful topic combined with  entertainment from Los Angeles to the Ghats of Benaras.

I recommend this book to everyone.

A book that reveals the secrets of human thoughts and how one can defeat them.

Rating: 5/5

Thank you Vandanachoudhury maam for this review copy.

Review :Men And Dreams In the Dhauladhar

Men and Dreams in the Dhauladhar
Author: Kochery C Shibu
Publisher: Niyogi Publishers
Page: 284
Price Rs 395 available at amazon.

The story starts with  Nanda an engineer from Kerala and also a Kalari warrior, set to work in a hydel power plant  in a remote village called Dhauladhar  which nestled in Himalayas .Nanda  has a dark past which he wants to escape.

Khusru  the second character,a native from the village of Kashmir finds himself joining terror group, who plans to blow up the power plant .
The third character was Rekha who is a doctor by profession and has a passion for kathak dance. She longs for someone who would make her feel loved. She  meets Khusru and  fall in love with each other and  elopes. They hide in the site. Fate brings the three together and their story gets interconnected.Will there dream come true?  Will  Khusru and his terror gang succeed in blowing up the power plant?
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My views:

• The background story  of each character was depicted minutely.The details helped in understanding the three character and their connection with the story. From Kerala to Kashmir I could definitely feel the essence  of the character's native place.
•  The local language was something I loved reading  except the Hindi slangs. Language blended with the description of each place whether it is Kerala or Kashmir
• My favourite character was Nanda. I enjoyed reading about his family background and their culture of Kalari Art. 
• The author depicted the real struggle of the  construction worker after doing much research.
•  The technical portion which was extremely researched by the author was little  tedious for a layman like me to understand.
• Some of the part was unnecessarily stretched.It made the story more like a document.
• There were too many side characters which at times got  confusing.
• Would have enjoyed more if the climax was little more detailed.
• Overall the book was an easy to read with beautiful description of the mountains. 

would I recommend this book? Yes definately, if you enjoy technical fiction grab this book.

Rating: 3.8/5

A big thank you to the author for sending me a copy of the book.

Maidless in Mumbai - Payal Kapadia

Author: Payal Kapadia

Publisher: bloomsbury India 

Pages:192 

                     

Payal Kapadia's book Maidless in Mumbai will connect all new-mom's together in one string. If you haven't read this hilarious book yet , grab it from Amazon and calm your hormones . 

The story revolves around Anu a working lady who has given birth recently to a baby girl Tara. Before she was admitted to the hospital she lined up all her important postpartum work pretty neatly . She appointed a nurse to take care of her baby but when the time came the nurse didn't pick her call neither she came for work.Meanwhile her MIL( mom-in-law ) comes for a stay and she gets bombard with advises."yesterday you were living for yourself .Now live for your daughter." Her husband avoids being into all such  situation. Anu looks for the perfect maid who can help her in the midst of the chaos.  Will she find one?

My Views:

Though the story says maidless in Mumbai but I think its pretty problematic everywhere. I myself face this every time and my life becomes chaotic with a one yr old . 

One thing I would say is - women whether working or not life changes hysterically with a newborn. The book is hilarious. I giggled all through the chapters cause the author was right on point but in a comic style . A must read !

Ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Book Review : Afrikay Sabyasachi

Author: Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Publisher : Mitra and Ghosh
No of pages : 88
Language: Bengali

Benuda or Sabyasachi ( renowned Bengali actor)  has a passion for wildlife photography and has covered every state in India which has been known for its national park / tiger reserve. This book is about his first African safari which was also one of his dream destination.
The trip was entirely sponsored by Nikon, Elite Shoes and Aviana Tours and Travels.
The book can guide you in case you are planning for a trip to Africa . From vaccination for yellow fever to the hotel chosen and the type of car booked for the entire safari is given in detail. The journey Kenya- Tanzania  has been described beautifully you will definitely have an imaginary trip with the author.
Also the book contains his photography with detailed information .
For me this book is a must buy for wildlife photographer.
Ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Book Review :The Seeker

The Seeker
Author: Karan Bajaj.
Publication: Penguin
Booklength: 246 Pages


 Do you believe Yoga can make a man walk on water?

Well this was what made me grab a copy of The Seeker . Can a man see future or can he read minds? Well the answer to this is yes.  I found my answer after reading this book  and I was  extremely surprised to learn the power of Yoga.
The story is about a wall street banker Max who after his mother's death was left with series of questions on life suffering and death. ( A modern tale of Gautam Buddha) He decides to look for an answer and leaves everything behind to travel to India in search of spirituality.  He find himself a guru who teaches him the power of yoga which later helps him to find his answer. From the frozen Himalaya's to the hot paddy fields of South India Max's journey penned down by the author will actually make you feel every bit of pain and penance.
Though at times few chapters were a little drag  but overall this book left me thinking a very heavy feeling.

Ratings⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Book Review-The Frogs

Book length : 17 ( Kindle estimation)
Publication: Westland
Available at amazon for free

Have you ever came across someone who have compromised entire life to please society/ husband  but never got anything in return, neither love nor respect !
I was scrolling through my Kindle when I happened to come across this book The Frogs free at Amazon Prime. For a quick read I thought to choose this one as the cover was interesting! ( I sometimes judge  books by it's cover)

The protagonist Aparna was into gardening and learning new things right from her childhood while living with her aunt. Later She got forceful married to the man whom she never loved. Her life was just to serve her husband and keep her family happy. The story builds up when her suppressed anger lead to series of unexpected events.

The twist at the end was brilliant.!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5