Category: Book Review

#bookreveiw: A Patchwork Family by Mukta Sathe

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Have you ever felt ‘meh’ after reading a book? I was left with this feeling after finishing Mukta Sathe’s debut novel, A Patchwork Family. I was looking for a short read and the title of the book intrigued me. The story started with the narrator, Ajoba( grandfather in Marathi) and his relation with his best friend. It then spins in to how a bond of friendship, love and trust develops with his best friend’s grand daughter Janaki. While the narrator talks about this beautiful bond, he sites certain misdoings of the society and the system may be to create more …

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#bookreview : Padmavati The Harlot & Other Stories by Kamala Das

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Some books leave a lasting impression on your heart and make you yearn for more. This book was such which I never wanted to get over. This collection of 19 short stories is one of the best work of Das. This collection as usual is bold like any other work of Das and spans unflinchingly over themes like communalism, lust, sex, marriage, family, love, relations, et all. All the stories are extremely well researched and strictly conforms to the structure of a short story. The brevity and the tightness of the stories keep you hooked and the climax of each …

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#Bookreview: Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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What is marriage about? Is it about companionship? Is it about unwavering trust? Is it about a bond like ’till death do us apart’? Is it about respect? Is it about unconditional love? And does it come with an expiration date? All these thoughts rumbled my mind after I finished reading Taylor Jenkins Reid’s epistolary novella ” Evidence of the Affair”. One more question which perturbed me was, can a love relationship be stronger than the bonds of marriage ? Rather can it bloom without any expectations and its fragrance reinstate the faith in the purity of love for eternity? …

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#Bookreview : Those Delicious Letters by Sandeepa Dutta Mukherjee

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Durga Puja is the biggest emotional association with the roots for any Bengali across the globe. But this year things are different. The celebration is lacking the pomp, revelry and most importantly the joy of uniting with your loved ones during this pandemic outbreak.  But ‘Those Delicious Letters’ by Sandeepa Dutta Mukherjee has helped in reducing this melancholy in the air. Here is a book which brought with it the niff of Bengal which we all yearn for being ‘probashi’ Bengalis and try to immerse in it during this celebration. The plot revolves around a forty year NRI Shubha Sengupta, …

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#Book Review : Happily Ever After & Everything in Between

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I saw my life playing out of the two initial graphic novels of Debbie Tung, Quiet Girl in the Noisy World andBook Love and her third novel Happily Ever After & Everything in Between was the most anticipated book of the year for me.  It is said marriages are made in heaven but that heaven evolves in all different forms, especially takes birth from friendship. This is the book about Debbie’s journey in finding a loyal friend, Jason and later the most trustworthy and loving companion with whom she ties the knot for a lifetime.  Debbie is an introvert person whereas Jason is an extrovert. …

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