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Men On My Mind
About the Book: Men on My Mind Men on My Mind is a hugely entertaining novel about love,sex and adventure. You're a girl from the land of the Kamasutra. And every oneexpects your love skills to comprise the acrobatic, the inventive,and the superlative. You try, of course, to gamely meet thebaffling requirements of the men who walk in and out of your life.But how much can you really do, when your investments yield minimumreturns and maximum weirdness? When your mother's words keepringing in your head: 'You need at least five men to fulfil you,sweetie. Remember Draupadi?' From starry-eyed crushes to lustful longings, from Catholicconvents to raucous nightclubs, from boarding-school bloomers tothe Open Butterfly g-string, from lovers to stalkers tophilanderers - Radha Thomas takes you on a crazy ride throughMumbai, Delhi, Beijing, Rotorua and New York, in the age-old questfor The One. A wickedly funny and flirtatious book about that mysteriousthing called love, Men on My Mind is a delicious mix of sex, adventure anddiscovery that you must not resist. About the Author: Radha Thomas Radha Thomas was born in Tamil Nadu, grew up in Mumbai and Delhiand then left for the USA to pursue her dream of becoming a jazzsinger. She has been a tour guide in Australia, New Zealand andFiji, sung jazz with renowned artists in New York, organizedtradeshows and exhibitions in China, owned and run a boutique onLong Island, and worked for an art publisher in New York. Shereturned to India after about twenty years and found work in apublishing company. She used to host a weekly jazz show on theradio and continues to sing jazz when the mood strikes. She is alsoa trained Dhrupad singer and currently works for Explocity Pvt.Ltd, Bengaluru.
270 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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November 22, 2020
This was so bad I wondered who snuck into my house and put it in my pile of books to read. It was a sort of Indian Mills and Boon (I think?) set in Mumbai. I got to page 3 before I started skimming but it didn't improve. DNF.
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2/10
May 23, 2020
Funny. Enjoyed reading it.
March 1, 2014
Its all about the authors experience with sex...she has just blabbered about her spoilt brat experiences with sex.
Only the cover is interesting rest assured not recommended for reading!!
Only the cover is interesting rest assured not recommended for reading!!
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June 2, 2017
A hilarious and amazing Ride of an Indian Girl right from Childhood to her teenage years then to the early 30's... fun encounters with men , world tours and lot more.. Read to indulge into a quirky Girl's world .. Looking forward to reading More men on my Mind the 2nd one ...
December 21, 2019
A time pass book while traveling
February 5, 2013
As the title reads the plot is about the different men on the mind of an Indian Girl at different places in the world at different times in her life. Her roller coaster ride from age 7 into adulthood with a variety of information, first-, second-hand and some times borrowed, eavesdropped learning from adult talk, imaginary settings of M&Bs, inexperienced school mates, their fantasies and their never to be realized dreams.... from real experience, expectations, desires, biased opinions from adults.... the information just follows from all corners as the little girl grows up with an aim to find her Mr. Right... through her childhood in Mumbai, her boarding school days in Panchagani, teenage in Delhi, and a lot of places outside the borders of India after that... I lost count of seriously.
What makes the novel interesting is the quotidian coordinates Radha Thomas connects to create a background to the pressing whys of this roller coaster ride - a girl from India, India - the land of Kamasutra, India - the land of Draupadi, a wife to 5 men... therefore, the expectations and burdens on a 21st century Indian girl or any Indian girl born until now to be just perfect in the act of love, lust, pleasure and choice of Mr. Right... Thomas has also drawn upon our reading experiences of boarding school stories of Blyton, the romances of M&Bs, the images that immediately come to mind when we think of a certain city, or person, or institution, or a certain profession- ... there is an immediate connect with those parts if the reader has read and remembers...
The Girl Friends Files: Men & Music on My Mind could have been an apt title to the book as well... because as much as this book is about finding that elusive Mr. Right, it is also about Music, our girl has a lovely voice, she sings; a handful of men in her life are all musicians of some kind as well, saxophone, violin, DJ .... all strung together through the bonds of friendship among women - between mothers, aunts, BFFs -those special bonds of fun & gossip and agony aunt tales :P :P :P
Setting: Contemporary, to be specific Urban Upper Middle Class India - a daughter of divorced parents who shuttles between the homes of her mother and father and their new partners n friends. Very similar to the film, Life in a Metro, where all that people think of is sexual activity...
Reading Expectations :-
For some odd reason I thought the book was non-fiction as the chapter titles were quite arbitrary so I picked, chose and read ... soon enough to realize there is a plot involved, so had to read from page one -cover-to-cover
It could have been a travelogue of sorts because of the sheer number of places the girl visits... some interesting tid bits... but there are just there as a name...
One time read ...
Men on my Mind was my reading experiment ... I rarely read from the genre of Chick Lit... the typical contemporary woman walking through this world with dreamy eyes and looking for the man almost sounds as a Mills and Boons plot... ! No wonder I was so not interested in M&Bs, 10 pages of my very first M&B and it was out of the window, never to visit my library or Men On My Mind
What makes the novel interesting is the quotidian coordinates Radha Thomas connects to create a background to the pressing whys of this roller coaster ride - a girl from India, India - the land of Kamasutra, India - the land of Draupadi, a wife to 5 men... therefore, the expectations and burdens on a 21st century Indian girl or any Indian girl born until now to be just perfect in the act of love, lust, pleasure and choice of Mr. Right... Thomas has also drawn upon our reading experiences of boarding school stories of Blyton, the romances of M&Bs, the images that immediately come to mind when we think of a certain city, or person, or institution, or a certain profession- ... there is an immediate connect with those parts if the reader has read and remembers...
The Girl Friends Files: Men & Music on My Mind could have been an apt title to the book as well... because as much as this book is about finding that elusive Mr. Right, it is also about Music, our girl has a lovely voice, she sings; a handful of men in her life are all musicians of some kind as well, saxophone, violin, DJ .... all strung together through the bonds of friendship among women - between mothers, aunts, BFFs -those special bonds of fun & gossip and agony aunt tales :P :P :P
Setting: Contemporary, to be specific Urban Upper Middle Class India - a daughter of divorced parents who shuttles between the homes of her mother and father and their new partners n friends. Very similar to the film, Life in a Metro, where all that people think of is sexual activity...
Reading Expectations :-
For some odd reason I thought the book was non-fiction as the chapter titles were quite arbitrary so I picked, chose and read ... soon enough to realize there is a plot involved, so had to read from page one -cover-to-cover
It could have been a travelogue of sorts because of the sheer number of places the girl visits... some interesting tid bits... but there are just there as a name...
One time read ...
Men on my Mind was my reading experiment ... I rarely read from the genre of Chick Lit... the typical contemporary woman walking through this world with dreamy eyes and looking for the man almost sounds as a Mills and Boons plot... ! No wonder I was so not interested in M&Bs, 10 pages of my very first M&B and it was out of the window, never to visit my library or Men On My Mind
January 25, 2013
‘Men on my Mind’ is nothing if not true to its name. The book traces the adventures of an Indian girl who grows up with… well .... men on her mind since the tender age of 7. From a dreamy pre-teen inspired by M&Bs struggling with her first crush, she grows into a self assured woman gamely trying out all kinds of men for size.
The book is a hilarious take on men and relationships. Here’s a heroine who turns the male-female stereotype on its head. She treats her encounters with men with the flamboyance and casualness generally attributed to men in their dealings with women. Oh she wants true love but she’s fine occupying herself while The One comes along.
The book certainly is a pacey, well written read peppered with hilarious situations and diversely interesting characters.
However, my problem with it is that there are just too many men. Towards the end it gets a bit tiresome and the end itself is a tiny bit of a letdown. I spotted a few editing errors too. Also, there were some sequences that didn’t seem to go anywhere (like the plain Jane episode). Of course since I read there’s a trilogy in the offing, we can hope it will come together and maybe the end is not ‘The End’.
Other than that ‘Men on my mind’ delivers all what it promises. It’s gutsy, sexy, provocative and very very funny. If you’re looking for something light and fun, this is the book to pick up.
The book is a hilarious take on men and relationships. Here’s a heroine who turns the male-female stereotype on its head. She treats her encounters with men with the flamboyance and casualness generally attributed to men in their dealings with women. Oh she wants true love but she’s fine occupying herself while The One comes along.
The book certainly is a pacey, well written read peppered with hilarious situations and diversely interesting characters.
However, my problem with it is that there are just too many men. Towards the end it gets a bit tiresome and the end itself is a tiny bit of a letdown. I spotted a few editing errors too. Also, there were some sequences that didn’t seem to go anywhere (like the plain Jane episode). Of course since I read there’s a trilogy in the offing, we can hope it will come together and maybe the end is not ‘The End’.
Other than that ‘Men on my mind’ delivers all what it promises. It’s gutsy, sexy, provocative and very very funny. If you’re looking for something light and fun, this is the book to pick up.
March 14, 2013
The search for the “Elusive Mr. Right” has provided quite some fodder for a few delightfully dishy reads in Chick Lit and has proven to be a successful formula for many a RomComs. As the name suggests, ‘Men on my Mind’ is quintessentially the journey of a young, innocent 7-year old who has her moment of epiphany when she eavesdrops on a conversation between her mom & her aunt. Wherein, her mom explains to her aunt that every woman needs at least five men to fulfill her & goes on to describe each man & his usefulness in detail. Armed with this knowledge, our girl starts off the journey of finding her Mr. Right from this tender age. What follows is a series of humorous/embarrassing/painful incidents as she experiments with a series of men from possessive loonies to pathetic kissers to drug addicts to two timers. But she never loses hope, takes it all in her stride and shinnies her way through the dangerous minefield of BFFs & boyfriend to ultimately find The One who would eventually makes her toes curl & nose tingle over just a smouldering stare!! The fact that India is the land of Kama sutra & Draupadi who needed five men to fulfil her is used expended & employed by the author to elaborate on our heroine’s various shades of grey.
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March 7, 2013
LOVED THE WAY IT STARTED, AND HOW IT WENT ON.. BUT THE END WAS ABRUPT AND NOT CONVINCING... IT FELT LIKE THE AUTHOR PUT A FULL STOP TO THE STORY AS SHE GOT BORED OF WRITING...
July 23, 2014
Nice .... Reveals truth for many women want to hide ... Simple language ..
August 9, 2015
Not my type :(
July 7, 2015
brainless book.
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