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Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Book Review of Equinox by Madhuri Maitra



Equinox
by 
Madhuri Maitra


The Blurb
When Indus Publishers announces a short story competition, it affects the lives of the ensemble cast in unexpected ways. A jaded journalist, a bored housewife, a starry-eyed ambitious girl, an army colonel, an impoverished divorcee-all enter the competition for pressing reasons of their own. They emerge with only slightly deeper pockets than they had but far richer in experience. Social issues are explored in an engaging manner, entwined in the lives of the characters-this is indeed the way of life. The novel also promises an enchanting look at the diversity in India; the characters belong to different Indian states and embody the peculiarities of the people of that region. Equinox and its checkered characters step to music of their own; many readers will find that it resonates with their own inner music.

Book Review: 
I received this as a review from author herself via The Blog Tours conducted by The Book Club .Thank you Rubina Ramesh for the same .

Interesting ! Interesting ! Interesting !

You all might thinking that I am sounding like the salewalas of a saree shop then you right in feeling like that because the book Equinox  is worth reading an million types .Due the following reasons
  • This book relates to the desires of persons who have a passion for writing .
  • To gain a new identity .
  • In order to full fill their  desires and solve the  problem brewing in lives people from all walks of life start writing as a huge about of money is given in reward.

The Author Madhuri Maitra has portrayed every character and their problems in an effective way . All the  characters come from different walks of life like A bored  housewife from Mumbai, An Army  Officer from Mussoorie , A jaded travel journalist  from Kerala , A impoverished   divorcee from Delhi and A starry ambition girl from Vashi.

The Author has described the functioning of  a publication house very well.She also has portrayed the emotions , fears  and helplessness of the wannabe writers in an effect manner  which every person having a passion to write can relate it .


The most interesting part of this book is that when the writers do some research for their stories the find some untold facts about the  respective  places .For eg : the jaded journalist finds out that Kerala is most developed state than others states but is shocked  when he comes to know  that people go aboard to earn their living despite the  fact.


A highly recommended read to all the book who intend to write articles , short stories and book some day.
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Always an avid reader, dreaming of delighting her own readers someday, Madhuri published her first two books in 2014. Haiku and other Micropoetry is a collection of short verse on nature and on life; while Equinox is a novel dealing with urban realities. While the former is pithy and thought-provoking, the latter is a simple reflection of modern lives.
Madhuri lives and teaches in Pune. Films are as close to her heart as books are; she teaches Film Appreciation in addition to Creative Writing. She enjoys bringing her favourite authors and films
to young minds. She also conducts workshops for children and adults. She has also written and published papers on films and on writing. Visit her website http://of-prose-and-poetry.com/#/otherpublications for details.
She is currently enjoying the monsoon, immersing herself in her personal library and nurturing
ideas for her third book.



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Saturday, 27 June 2015

Spotlight of Dove's Lament by Kirthi Jayakumar



..... IS A JOURNEY THAT TAKES YOU AROUND THE WORLD, BRINGING TO LIFE THE HUMAN SIDE OF CONFLICTS THAT TEAR PEOPLE APART.





EXCERPT 

The haunting images of people falling dead, as the flames of life were extinguished in a puff of smoke, danced before my eyes. I wanted to run.I wanted to shout. I wanted the pain coursing through my veins to end in a deafening blast. I wanted the dead back. The silence around was too loud for me. I couldn’t cope. Slowly, my dead-still surroundings started stirring and I became aware of the voices around me … some begging for mercy … some calling out to their loved ones … and what seemed perhaps, newly orphaned children crying piteously. I heard Death’s cape swish and flap in the sick winds that Murder blew. Images of corpses with a permanent scream locked into their faces were etched in my memory forever.

‘Habimana, Habimana, are you one of those faces?’ No!
It cannot be.
Pain shot up my left arm.
I fell back in a stupor.
Habimana … I know you are not dead … I will find you,
wherever you are …
Blood dripped somewhere.
Blackness.

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About The Author

Kirthi Jayakumar is an writer, artist, activist and lawyer based out of Chennai, India. She is the founder of The Red Elephant Foundation and the A38 Foundation of International Law. Driven by the goals of peace and equality, Kirthi indulges in different mediums to express her dreams for the world around her. An optimist by ideology, an idealist by thought, a humanist by religion and an equal-ist by tionality, Kirthi is a global citizen. Her first book, Stories of Hope, earned her a nomination as one of among six Indian authors to watch out for, alongside the likes of Devdutt Pattanaik and Lavanya Sankaran.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Spotlight of Eligible Princess by Summerita Rhayne




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The Eligible Princess

AFTER HIDDEN PASSION, THE KAMBOJ PRINCESSES SAGA CONTINUES WITH RUKMANI’S SISTER LAKSHAYA...
by 
Summerita Rhayne


Blurb 

King Kartikeya needs a bride. The more blue-blooded the better for him. Princess Lakshaya must marry to please her family. She is sick of being rejected by suitor after suitor. She must not fail this time. 

But what when she finds that King Kartikeya is not who she thinks he is? Can she still go ahead with this marriage? Set in Early Middle Ages in India, Book 2 in the Kamboj Princesses Saga follows Lakshaya in her journey to discover the passion of her life and love. Find adventure, intrigue, history and romance in this sensual historical fiction, Book 2 in the Kamboj Princesses Saga.



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About the Author 



Summerita Rhayne loves to write sensual and emotional romance. There's no knowing when some quirky - or sometimes even not so quirky - happening in daily life might trigger her right brain and then she's off craving a new story. She loves writing characters who learn and grow and find their way out of their troubles and emotional hang-ups. Hot, sensual heroes and sassy but sweet heroines mostly fit the bill in her stories. She also believes that a touch of humor never goes amiss in a book.

She divides her time between family, job and writing - and loves winding down with music, movies and the internet!




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Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Book Review of Delirium by Sowmya Aji




Delirium
by 
Soumya Aji
A Harper Collins Publication

Sports, Love, Steroids... Will love win? 







Blurb 
I was addicted. 
To him. 

Anjana Narendra just can’t keep her head straight when it comes to the nation’s heartthrob,cricket vice-captain Avinash Katagi.The mere sight of him sets the heart of this thirty-one-year-old television journalist pounding, and fills her stomach with butterflies. He seems smitten too – taking her out for romantic walks in the botanical gardens, appearing by her side when she has a road accident,knocking on her door in the middle of the night. Even as Anjana is swept off her feet into a whirlwind romance,the reporter within her sniffs out the biggest scoop of the season. all too soon, she is neck-deep in trouble with her bosses and the cricket board, struggling to make sense of the sordid world of steroids and celebs. Will anjana give up the delicious young man she is hooked on to? and does she even want to? Sinful and alluring, Delirium is a heady cocktail of intrigue, temptation and betrayal.

Book Review :

I received this book as a review copy from the author .Thank you The Book Club and Rubina Ramesh for the same. Delirium is excellent book to read .The book is based upon cricket, intake of drugs and journalist who tries to expose them. It is mixture of steamy affair, high octane drama and nail biting suspense. When you read this hair rising book you would not feel like getting up from your place.

The emotions of

·    Anju ---------The journalist.
·   Avinash Katagi --------the national hero and vice captain of Indian Cricket Team.
·   Ratan----a Senior Cricketer and The captain of Indian Cricket Team.
·  And others are described in an enchanting and   eloquent way.

Sowmya Aji has written this book in a very beautiful way. The situations and action packed drama are penned in a fantastic way. This mixture of steamy affair, high octane drama and suspense are proportionally divided .There is no dull moment while reading this book. The pace of story is normal.
Sowmya Aji has described the BCCI's attitude towards the issues like drugs addiction and the intake of steroid by some players of the Indian Cricket Team in an outright manner.
I like the way Anju finally helps him in her way. This book is highly recommended read to all


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I love day-dreaming and my close friends in this endless activity include Hamlet, Howard Roark, Absolem, Miss Marple, Elizabeth Bennett, Katniss Everdeen, Holly Short, Sirus Black, Gimli and Septimus Heap.. occasionally, Saphira also :) Otherwise, I am a serious hard-nosed print journalist who writes about politics, social issues and culture..
I've spent most of my life reading and writing.. I also love movies, dance, theatre, music, trekking, yoga.. I tried my hand at Russian and French and remember Rooski Izink Nimnoga and je sais un peu de Francaise .. (I bet I got that wrong).. but the latest language I picked up, Spanish, is very close to my heart, as I want to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's yellow butterflies in Espanol.. I speak, read and write three Indian languages -- Kannada, Hindi, Tamil .. and my masters is in English, so I obviously love language and communication..
I also love knitting and I hate cooking :) I'm trying very hard to be good at a new job -- parenting -- to my three-year-old, but boy, is that the toughest job!

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Thursday, 7 May 2015

Spotlight and Book Review of Save in Sri Lanka by Devika Fernando




Saved In Sri Lanka 
by 
Devika Fernando

Some People Are Destined To Meet 



Blurb 


Some people are destined to meet.

It sure feels that way when Sri Lankan tour guide Sepalika meets Daniel. The mysterious tourist from Ireland steals his way into her heart and makes her question everything her life is built upon. Instant attraction turns to love – but does he feel the same? And what about the secret she’s hiding from him?
Follow the two on their quest for a happy ending amid the beauty and wonders of the tropical island paradise of Sri Lanka.



                                   MY REVIEW
I  received the  reviewers copy of the book Saved in Srilanka  written by Devika Fernando   through the blog tours conducted  by The Book Club .I would like to Thank Rubina Ramesh  for the same.
What can I say about this book I have no words to express .Saved in Srilanka is a very well written book by Devika  Fernando. This book acts like a multipurpose app. Saved in Srilanka novel is combination of sweet budding romance between a tour guide Sepalika, the Irish tourist man Daniel and the beautiful places in Srilanka .Devika has described the places in such a way that makes us feel like we are present in the very place and are enjoying the beauty like the Irish man.

The emotions and the situations are designed in such a way that we will not get bored of reading the book. The best part of the book is that  the heroine Sepalika does not cry in each and every situation and boldly faces her problems with a small smile on her face .I think the author has given a touch of herself to her character Sepalika in this book. The USP of this book is

  • The love letter which Sepalika pens down for the Irish man Daniel when she meets him during the       tour.


Over Saved in Srilanka is a wonderful book to read.
Recommended read .To all those who love to read sweet romantic tales.




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Almost as soon as Devika Fernando could write, she imagined stories and poems. After finishing her education in Germany and returning to her roots in Sri Lanka, she got a chance to turn her passion into her profession. Having lived in Germany and in Sri Lanka with her husband has made her experience the best (and the worst) of two totally different worlds – something that influences her writing. Her trademark are sweet, yet deeply emotional romance stories where the characters actually fall in love instead of merely falling in lust. She draws inspiration from everyone and everything in life. Besides being a romance novel author, she works as a self-employed German web content writer, as a translator, and as a faithful servant to all the cats, dogs, fish and birds in her home. What she loves most about being an author is the chance to create new worlds and send her protagonists on a journey full of ups and downs that will leave them changed. When she’s not writing, she’s reading or thinking about writing.

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Saturday, 21 March 2015

Book Review of Lemon Girl by Jyoti Arora



Lemon Girl 
by 
Jyoti Arora



The Blurb


'It's all your fault.'
Mere words these are.
"But words can possess a shadow invincible enough to rob even a soul of its eternity."

In a society that finds it easier to mark sins of a victim than the culprit, Nirvi is a young girl punishing herself for the faults she did not do and avenging her hurts by defeating her own truth.

She is scared of her future, and ashamed of her past. She is failing herself, and knows it. She has had a long line of boyfriends, and hated them all. She detests the guy she is living with, runs away from the one she loves , and seduces the one who can never love her.
When Arsh first sees Nirvi, she's a free and frank girl in whose eyes sparkle the lemony zest of life. The next time he sees her, she is a voiceless doll draped in clothes that cover her body less and shroud her soul more. And Arsh can't rest till he finds out what made Nirvi give up her own real self.
Nirvi knows she is dragging herself on a path from which there can be no recovery. Can her spirit survive the treacherous downfall? Or is the pull of fear and push of desperation just too strong to withstand for a girl who believes she has "nowhere else to go" but down.

"When it's time for you to fall in love, even a lemon can become the cause of it," says Arsh.

But can love survive, when even the self love dies?
Can love survive when respect is no more?
Does true love have the power to revive a dying soul?
Find out in the pages of this brilliantly woven, intense, heart-warming and thought-provoking saga of RISING IN LOVE


My Review :

I received the book Lemon Girl by Jyoti Arora  as a review copy from The Book Club.Thank you Rubina Ramesh  for the same.
Lemon Girl is a fantastic and brilliant book written by Jyoti Arora. The book consists of two unique and strong characters Nirvi, Arsh and their journey towards becoming one. The author Jyoti Arora has described Nirvi in a spectacular manner. In a way that will make you shed tears for Nirvi in her  pain , distress and anguish  which she goes through after being disrespected  and raped  by her own brother. This forces her to leave the house forever .In search of solace and happiness. On the other hand the author has described Arsh in an realistic way .The author  has portrayed him  as a gentleman who has his intentions clear about helping Nirvi in 1000 different ways .The author  has also described his helplessness  to reproach her, to ask for forgiveness for his actions in an mind-blowing fashion .The author has described the emotions of characters in an very enchanting manner .The dialogues are simple .The plot is very simple and sweet .What I like about this book is that the author has used Tiya  like a sunshine in Nirvi's life. Lemon Girl by Jyoti Arora is an amazing book .An Awesome Read.
Lemon Girl by Jyoti Arora is highly recommended read to all book lovers.





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Jyoti Arora lives in Ghaziabad, India. Jyoti Arora is a Post Graduate in English Literature and Applied Psychology. Her writing achievements include two novels, three blogs, several wins in national level blog competitions, over five years of freelance writing experience, developing books for kids and abridging 24 famous English novels like Jane Eyre, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn etc.
Jyoti's first novel, Dream's Sake, was published in 2011 by V&S Publishers. It received great reviews and much appreciation from readers.
Books have always been Jyoti’s best friends. In fact, books so fascinated her from early childhood that she learnt reading, by herself, even before she started going to school. And she considers herself most fortunate that she is able to pursue her dream of being a novelist and work at what she loves best.
However, if books are Jyoti’s first love, and she’s still very devoted to them, the thrilling and steadily advancing world of technology also fascinates her. As a result, one of Jyoti’s blogs is a technological blog called Techn0Treats. In 2011, a post in this blog won her the title of Samsung Mobiler when Samsung made her a part of the team of twenty bloggers chosen from all over India through a blogging competition. In this team of twenty bloggers, she was the only woman and perhaps the only one who had studied literature instead of science. As a Samsung Mobiler,

Jyoti is a patient of Thalassemia Major which forced her to stop going to school after class seventh. After that, she continued her studies on her own through correspondence courses. Her zest to overcome her medical problems and zeal to achieve success keeps her striving on with her endeavors to make her dreams come true.


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