Gita’s Comments (group member since Dec 08, 2013)

Gita’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Another Midsummer Night's Dream is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD on 8th and 9th March, 2014.

Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction, Middle Graders, Chapter Books

Story Outline: For many centuries, people have been abducted from Earth and taken to Planet Superior for a purpose. Indrashish has the evidence yet he does not want to tell anyone because the inhabitants of Planet Superior do not want to be found, they hold all other planets in contempt, and they are very powerful.
Read the book to find out more and also what William Shakespeare is doing in it!

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

Link on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Another-Midsumm...

The Missing Girl will be available as a FREE DOWNLOAD on the 2nd of March. 2013.

The Missing Girl is a short chapter book, along with a bonus story Adi the Virus.

After a game of hide and seek with her brother and friends, Sneha goes missing.
The presence of a strange car points to kidnap. The police is called in. But Sneha is not kidnapped. She is in the midst of an adventure, an adventure of a different kind.

Bonus Story: Adi The Virus.
Adi is very talkative. Wherever he is made to sit in class, he gets his neighbour into trouble by talking. His teacher calls him Adi the Virus.
But some viruses do good....A fun class room story.

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

Link to amazon.com is http://www.amazon.in/THE-MISSING-GIRL...

This Sunday, Feb'23,my FREE DOWNLOAD, King Neptune's Delite, is a novel for Middle Graders, Genre: Action & Adventure.

King Neptune's Delite

The story starts in a tiny fishing village in Kerala, India. Maya finds a bottle with a diamond ring, a newspaper cutting, and a blank paper. She, her brother and their two friends put together these clues and guess someone, probably aboard a ship, had sent out a signal for help.

The children, who have lost their fishermen fathers in a cyclone, work for the owner of a Curio shop. They pick the beach for shells, drift wood, sea glass and anything of value the sea brings in.

Maya is the youngest in the group but she is the practical and sensible one. However, the dazzling find, the appearance of muscled, tattooed Swamy, his suspicious manner and above all, the call of adventure makes even Maya reckless. Instead of going to a grownup or the police, the children decide to go to the rescue of the prisoner. Their quest takes them to the harbor town of Cochin, aboard the ship, 'King Neptune's Delite', and into danger with men for whom bloodshed is a game.

Added to the adventure, the book reveals facets of Indian culture, the community living of small villages where no child is left uncared for, and humour, and fun.

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

Link to amazon.com is http://www.amazon.com/King-Neptunes-D...

Please read sample chapters at
https://www.goodreads.com/reader/5162...

Thank you and do take time to rate/ post a review.

Please download my book, The Magician's Turban, on 16 Feb,2014.
The Magician's Turban is a short chapter book for middle graders. The genre is Fantasy, Magic.
Hassan and Ismail attend a magic show, as part of the entertainment arranged by Bimal Ram for his son's wedding. Three magicians perform. The third magician is Jadugar. His act leaves even the two other magician's baffled.
Naturally. He is a real magician and the purpose of his act is to show that magic is real; it is not merely slieght of hand.
Ismail is not convinced so Jadugar sets about convincing him in the only way possible: he takes him and Hassan into his magical world.

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

Link to amazon.com is http://www.amazon.com/The-Magicians-T...

Thanks for bearing with my weekly posts and also for the downloads. Please post reviews too.

For me, the sequence up to Tess' arrest makes sense. She saw herself as sullied, not surprising given the times, and she blamed Alec for coercing her by using her family against her. She loved Alex passionately, and hated Alec with an equally strong passion, so she kills him. All this has its own emotional logic. I find it disturbing but I am convinced that is the way it could have happened and I accept it.

Because Tess has difficulty in accepting her own 'fall', she is glad when the soldiers come for her because 'she will not live for Angel to despise' her. I understand her fears. She has seen how severe Angel can be.

I also accept that Tess wants her sister to take her place. Perhaps she does this for both of them.

What I cannot accept is for Angel to go away hand in hand with Tess' sister, after her execution!

Going by the perceptions of those times, Tess is not a pure woman, and she herself thinks she is not pure. She thinks she is no longer good enough for Angel.

What I wonder about is the intention of Hardy in giving that subtitle to the book.
He had written on a taboo subject. Did he want to reassure his readers or was he mocking them?
Or, did he start with something else in mind (the book appeared as a newspaper serial ), and the story acquired a life of its own, as it often happens.

I am going back to the lines I quoted before.

"why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order."

Here Tess is raped /seduced by Alec, the wrong man. Even before that, when Angel Clare misses dancing with her in her village, Hardy mentions about the two perfect halves which seldom meet.
This sentiment is echoed in his other books also, in different ways.
Far from the madding crowd, Return of the Native,The Trumpet Major immediately come to mind.
And Jude the Obscure. In a way it is the inverse of Tess. Jude is trapped by trickery into a soul destroying marriage.

Crystal wrote: "Lindsey wrote: "Crystal: My big thought was how can you fall asleep in the the dark woods, when you're lost? Around Alec?! Oh my, but I guess Tess is supposed to be very natural/ nature driven..."..."

And she works on a farm which means she wakes up very early every morning and goes to bed early. She would be very tired after the long day and sleepy too, and as Crystal says, naive. She would have believed that they were truly lost. Alec's presence would have alarmed her but he left her alone which made her feel safe.

I like the restraint Hardy shows, and the subtlety. He took a sensitive topic and handled it so well. He does not blame Tess, rather he 'bemoans' her fate.

"But, might some say, where was Tess's guardian
angel? where was the providence of her simple faith? Perhaps, like that other god of whom the ironical Tishbite spoke, he was talking,or he was pursuing, or he was in a journey, or he was sleeping and
not to be awaked."

Also, he makes it mot the story of Tess alone, but of innocence.

"why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order."

The writers of that age usually ignored such sensitive issues or branded such characters as 'fallen'. A writer of today would probably feel the need to be very explicit; some might go into graphic details as the 'story demands it.'
I feel Hardy makes us feel the impact of the catastrophe by naming Book 1 as 'The Maid', and Book 2 as 'The Maid No More.'

My e book on offer as a FREE DOWNLOAD this Sunday, the 9th of February, 2014 is The Dinosaur Puzzle and Other Stories


The book is a mixed bag of short stories for preteens and for anyone who loves a good story.
What does Ananda’s great-grandmother have to do with the missing bones of a dinosaur?
Ayub finds a wounded ‘soldier’ and hides him. What are the consequences?
When Appu finds a baby elephant in trouble and helps him, what does it lead to?
And much more….
Is the black hill really Ghost Town?
How lucky is Raghu’s marble? Lucky enough to track a major archaeological find?

Seven stories of fun and adventure!

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

Link to amazon.com is http://www.amazon.com/The-Dinosaur-Pu...

Happy Reading!

Cinderella's Escape : Published on Feb 2, 2014

Anna Maria lived with her stepmother Priscilla, and her stepsisters, Stella and Marcella.
Cinderella's stepmother was no way as evil as Priscilla. Her stepsisters were a little less mean than Stella and Marcella.
Anna Maria did not live among cinders because there were no cinders. There were no mice and rabbits to play with either.
But there was a mystery to be solved and an escape to be made!
BRAINS + COURAGE = FREEDOM + HAPPINESS



Cinderella's Escape

Available on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/CINDERELLAS-ESC...

and Smashwords
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

My free download for this Sunday, the 2nd of Febraury, 2014, is
Hunt For The Horseman

Genre: Middle Graders, YA, Action and Adventure
Length: 191 Pages

Story Outline
No dead parents; no ghosts, vampires, witches; no violence and bloodshed.
What then?
HUNT FOR THE HORSEMAN has a young girl, Sandy, visiting her extended family, in her ancestral palace, in India. She meets scads of cousins, scores of uncles and aunts, and had great fun in the palace because it has amazing hidey holes built into it by a queen who had a great sense of fun.
Sandy joins in the century old game of trying to find the horseman (a toy) hidden in one of the many secret compartments.
Where is the story? Where are the bad guys?
Believe me, they are very much there. Dangerous mafia men are out to grab the palace. Only a miracle can save the palace. And a miracle takes place....

For a more detailed story line and excerpts, please check the goodreads and amazon links.

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

This is the link on amazon.com for http://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Horseman-G...

I am again offering Theft at the Fair and Other Stories. The amazon link for download is http://www.amazon.com/Theft-Fair-Othe...

Thank you. Please read the books and, if possible, rate and review them too.

I am terribly sorry, I do not know what has gone wrong but the free download of 'Theft at the Fair and other stories' has not been effected this Sunday and there is nothing I can do about it now.

I have created a free download for tomorrow, i.e. 27th Jan. 2014. I hope you will download the book. I will also repeat the offer next Sunday.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Theft-Fair-Othe...

Once again,my apologies.

My earlier free download, Dearie the Deer was an animal story, Krishta, Daughter of Martev was science fiction.

This Sunday, the 26th of January, 2014, my free ebook download on amazon is a collection of mystery stories. The book, like all my other books, is for middle graders.

Theft at the Fair and Other Stories is a collection of four mysteries.
You may follow the book link for the story outlines.

The free download is available on all amazon stores like amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.in, etc. but the download is as per US time; approximately 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time on the date specified.

This is the link on amazon.com for Theft at the Fair and Other Stories.

http://www.amazon.com/Theft-Fair-Othe...

Shradhanjali wrote: "This sounds fun and interesting and I see that both the reviews for Dearie the Deer are good. Glad to support a fellow Indian, cant wait to read them :)"

Thank you!

The free download offer for Dearie the Deer met with good response. The reviews too have started trickling in. I am again offering the book as a free download this Sunday.

In addition to Dearie the Deer, the FREE DOWNLOAD this Sunday, 19 th of January, 2014, is
Krishta, Daughter of Martev

Krishta is Sci-fi; and with a word count of about ten thousand words, is an Easy Read Chapter book.
STORY OUTLINE
Krishta, of Ayzeon, has a problem. She is not coping up with Science at school. In a last ditch effort, she accompanies her father, Martev, who is among the greatest scientists in the universe, to Planet Earth. As the sciences are still at a very fundamental stage on Earth, she hopes to understand the basics and build upon them.
Suraj, working in his school chemistry lab, discovers Krishta and along with his sister Sunita, tries to help her as much as possible. Everything is fine except that Ikor, banished from Ayzeon for his violent ways, has tracked down Martev and seeks revenge…..

Krishta is for Middle Grade Readers and has minimum violence; in fact it opposes violence.

I hope you will enjoy reading the book.

For the next three months, I will be offering one kindle book every Sunday as a free download. I will confine all my posts to this thread, so as not to hog too much space!

I am not able to gift kindle books to reviewers, as amazon does not provide the GIFT Option from India. By making my books available through Free Download, I hope to get some reviews from goodreaders.

The first book on offer is my personal favorite, Dearie the Deer

This is a short chapter book but it packs in a lot. The story is about Dearie, the most timid of deers and his metamorphosis into a leader of the herd. I hope you will read the book and also post reviews.

Action, Adventure, Mysteries, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Fun with friends and cousins and a lot more, all at a special holiday price of $0.99.

All books are for middle graders; no violence, horror and no preaching either! Just stories.

Theft at the Fair and Other Stories Hunt For The Horseman The Dinosaur Puzzle and Other Stories King Neptune's Delite The Unicycle and Other Stories The Forbidden Forest Dearie the Deer Another Midsummer Night's Dream Krishta, Daughter of Martev

I used the Self Promotion folder, however, if the post isn't meant to be here, I apologize to the moderators and to the other group members, particularly to Mr.Frederick.

I am a writer and yes, at the moment I have joined the group to promote my book, 'The Vigil and Other Stories'.

However, I'll dive into the very interesting discussions later; truth is, I cannot think of anything else except my books and what I'm writing now. My reading,discussing, and many other essentials are all on hold!