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   BOOK REVIEW : VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE     " Veronika Decides to Die" is a book written by Paulo Coelho, the author of the New York Times best seller, "The Alchemist". This book is a realistic fiction book that follows a woman named Veronika.  It  is a beautiful tale  of hope and happiness. The story revolves  around Veronika, a young Slovenian woman  who has everything that a woman in the prime  of her life would want. She has a good job, a  string of boyfriends and a family that loves  her. However, she is not happy with her life  and decides to commit suicide. After taking  sleeping pills, she awaits her death which does  not arrive. She wakes up in a hospital where  she is told that the pills have shortened her life  span and that she has only a few days to live.  Within the walls of a mental hospital, Veronika  falls in love with a person suffering from  schizophrenia. The head psychiatrist at the  hospital is trying to perform an experiment,  which concerns

 BOOK REVIEW : THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE Extraordinary tale of love through a Dervishes eyes, bringing Middle Eastern culture and religion to the heartbeat of love. "The Forty Rules of Love", a book I would encourage anyone to read. It gave me a different perspective on the emotions and thoughts of love, experiencing the life of a dervish and his 40 rules, made the story liberating and more intriguing. The beauty of Elif's writing is the reader is always learning as well as feeling engaged within the story. The well rounded characters created are a fan favourite of mine especially Shams of Tabriz. Normally everything we do within reach or actions has something to do with love and that's the message Shams leaves us with. His Sufi religion didn't control him, it freed him from society. He showed others how to love without any restraints or rights and wrongs. Elif writes with conviction, demonstrating that love can change the world and if we take a pause and think abou

 BOOK REVIEW  BRIDA           Brida is an Irish girl, who has a quest for knowledge and magic. She meets a teacher, Magus, who knows different magic traditions and promises her that he'll teach all of them to her. He helps her in finding herself, and how she could dance to the rhythm of nature and be fearless. She is totally drawn by his teachings and is torn between herd dreams and realities. This book is about life, and the lessons our nature has for us to learn by our own experiences. The character has been portrayed nicely and the story has been weaved beautifully. Paulo Coelho the writer of the story is a master of words and is proficient in creating a new world for the readers to travel along with the characters of the story. His style of writing is always based on philosophical and spiritual fiction and the story is beautifully structured with the feelings, love, passion, mystery &spiritual elements. The dialogue delivery for all the characters is beautifully done and ea

  It's not the world she,me, him, it, they, them, her, I have known, Not the world in which you and I have grown.  Those seeds that were sown for a world of peace, Seem scattered around, And I look for them as they are nowhere to be found. In every heart beat falls all else and powerful is fear, That the next moment may bring the loss of someone dear When did this hate begin When was it alright under any pretext to shed blood or a kin How low can man go? The splatter of one woman's blood Add to another's glow? How can the pain of any human not hurt? Just because you weren't the one to give him/ her/ it/ them birth ? I look around It doesn't feel the same It's not the world I knew The one where I grew. #ambicauppal 

BOOK REVIEW  THE FAULT IN OUR STARS  The Fault in Our Stars is about sixteen year old Hazel Grace Lancaster who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, at the age of thirteen. Three years later and she is still alive, her life has been temporarily prolonged by a miracle drug, but Hazel feels dead inside and is swimming in clinical depression. She then starts attending the Cancer Support Group and meets the gorgeous, clever Augustus Waters. Lover of life, video games and objects that have a deeper metaphorical meaning. When Hazel felt this was the end of her life...it was actually just the beginning. This book was truly amazing. It produced deep emotions within me and it broke my heart then haphazardly stitched it back up and then mercilessly crushed it again. Even as I think of the beautiful characters that inhabited the story and now my heart, the tears well up. Never before has a book made me so emotional and made me want to laugh and cry and think about the true meaning of life and what

BOOK REVIEW  A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”.   The novel is set in Afghanistan from the 1960s to the 1990s, spanning from Soviet occupation to the Taliban control, following the lives of two women in their marriages and in their war-torn country. Expecting domestic abuse, graphic war descriptions and a main theme of oppression is depicted on Afghan women. The vivid description of book took me into the Afghan valleys. Heartfelt, moving and stunningly beautiful, wonderfully portrayed the hardship of Afghani women, the essence of their friendship which turns out into a mother-daughter relation. " The writing engrossed me. Hosseini magically puts the reader inside the city, neighbourhood, and house of the characters. I found myself wanting to console Mariam and Laila, and to harshly react, abuse and kick at Rasheed myself - despicable brute. The novel is split in a dual narrat