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November 10, 2023
The Blogchatter Book of Thrillers – Book Review
Title: The Blogchatter Book of Thrillers
Author: Blogchatter
Publisher: Readomania
Price: Rs 250 /-
No of Pages: 111
Link to Purchase: https://amzn.eu/d/2kzGADc
My Take:
The Blogchatter book of thrillers contains 15 spine chilling short stories. Some of them chill your spine more than others but one and all are scary. I tried an experiment while reading this book in order to find out which ones among the stories frightened me the most. At the moment I am staying in a gue...
September 14, 2023
Unbroken: The Untold Story – Indrani Mukerjea – Book Review
Title: Unbroken: The Untold Story
Author: Indrani Mukerjea
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Harper-Collins Publishers India
No of Pages: 373
Price: INR 599
Link for Purchase: https://www.amazon.in/Unbroken-Indrani-Mukerjea/dp/9356994102
My Take
The book gives us a very good picture of the author’s early life and her struggles. She was abused and ill-treated, and her own family toyed with her emotions and betrayed her. The author comes across as a strong independent woman...
August 20, 2023
Joy and Sorrow: A Bird’s Eye View
Joy and Sorrow: A Bird’s Eye View
Oh little birdie!
Every morn,
I would wake up,
To your melodious song,
Of love and beauty.
I often wondered,
Wherefrom you learnt,
To sing like this?
Did you learn it on your mother’s lap?
Or is it God’s gift to you?
The Maroon and Red hues,
Of your patterned wings,
Like coloured fans,
Help you soar high,
And sometimes swoop low.
You have been teaching,
Your young one to fly.
I often hear your instructions to her,
Wafting through my balcony door.
She is growing u...
July 13, 2023
The Witch In The Peepul Tree – Arefa Tehsin – Book Review
Title: The Witch In The Peepul Tree
Author: Arefa Tehsin
Publisher: HarperCollins India
No of Pages: 323
Price: Rs 325 /-
Genre: Fiction
Link To purchase: The Witch In The Peepul Tree
My Take:
Pros:
The story is about a murder that occurs in a traditional Muslim household of the fifties. Who murdered the daughter of the house, Sanaz? Further, how come the door of the room where the murdered girl is found, bolted from inside? The windows are barred and there is no ...
May 24, 2023
My Name Is Cinnamon – Vikas Prakash Joshi – Book Review
Title: My Name Is Cinnamon
Author: Vikas Prakash Joshi
Genre: Young Adult
Publisher: Hay House Publishers India
No of Pages: 216
Price: Rs 279
Link for Purchase:
My Take:
Pros:
The story moves at a gentle pace like the slow and steady waves of a quiet river. Such waters are generally deceptive in appearance and look shallow but turn out to be very deep. The correct phrase to describe the way this book is written is ‘light but with a surprising a...
April 30, 2023
Evoked The Lavasa Incident – Mansi Babbar – Book Review
Title: Evoked the Lavasa Incident
Author: Mansi Babbar
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Price: Rs 299
No of Pages: 216
Link For Purchase: Evoked The Lavasa Incident
My Take:
Pros:
Right from the word go, the author has concentrated on only one thing, which is to maintain the pace of events that occur in the story. Using this one strategy she has managed...
April 28, 2023
The Slimy (Z)ombie
The next morning found Gayatri and Varun standing at the point near the river where the filming had taken place. The time was 6.30 AM, and the Sun was rising. Varun did not want to attract too much attention to what they were doing. He wanted to get it over with quickly. Gayatri was looking very apprehensive. She kept repeating, ‘Be careful Varun.’ Again, and again.
Varun rapidly changed int...
April 27, 2023
A Voice From (Y)onder
By the time Varun and Gayatri got back to the inn, it was 8 PM. They went to Gayatri’s room. She said, ‘We need to look at the last 5 lines of the verses to proceed further. They still don’t make sense to me.’ She pulled out the piece of paper on which she had written down the verses. They looked at the verses again.
Move backward in paths,Known, well known,
Trace the route,
By which you came....
April 26, 2023
A Talk With (X)avier D’Cruz
Aravankolom was a small village and Gayatri and Varun did not have to travel far to reach their destination. The auto-rickshaw soon stopped by the side of a bungalow. There was a security guard sitting in front of an Iron gate. They paid the auto driver and walked up to the security guard. Varun told the guard the same story of being historians doing some research. The guard picked up ...
April 25, 2023
Deep (W)aters
Gayatri and Varun walked back to the inn. They went to Gayatri’s room. Varun asked, ‘So what do we do now?’
Gayatri said, ‘I think it is time we looked at the second stanza of the verses we heard during the seance with Loveleen. We need to unravel that now.’
‘Okay let us get down to it.’
Gayatri fetched her handbag and pulled out the piece of paper on which she had written the verses. She sa...
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