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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 psy...

 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 ch...

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 ...

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 du...

BOOK REVIEW THE LITTLE PRINCE                            - ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY      "It is only with the heart that once can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye."      "The Little Prince" is a well crafted, beautifully written book for children, but I totally disagree on that, as its a book for all ages both children and adult. The book wont even take you a whole day to read. Consider honoring yourself where the child in you still remains within, and read it as a tribute to childhood, the innocence and to you. All it takes is a little imagination and bravery. The adversity, innocence at heart and the thirst for finding answers is what portrayed in this wisely told tale. "The Little Prince" tells the story of a pilot stranded in the desert fixing his aeroplane, until one day he meets a little boy – the Little Prince. The Little Prince tells the pilot many stories of...

BOOK REVIEW COFFEE HOUSE                                              - LAJO JOSE  "എല്ലാം തീർന്നു എന്ന് കരുതുന്നിടത്ത് നിന്ന് തുടങ്ങാൻ പറ്റണം, അതാണ് ചലഞ്ച്!, അതിലേ വിപ്ലവമുള്ളൂ, ചരിത്രമുള്ളൂ'. "          Lajo Jose played a major role in waking up the stagnant Malayalam thriller world. Coffee House, a realistic psychological crime thriller, tells the story of five unexpected murders at a coffee house in Kottayam, a rape case, the ensuing investigations, the arrests, the pronouncement of the death sentence and finally a journalist who comes down to prove his innocence. Esther Emmanuel, a journalist, works for a large circulation weekly in Kottayam. There are a lot of things going on around us that come into the life of Esther, who has been living alone for thirty years. Esther was the one who sparked the arrest of Benjamin in that case by creati...

BOOK REVIEW THE ALCHEMIST                                                     - PAULO COELHO              The book depicts the story of a shepherd boy, Santiago from Spain who is getting repeated dreams of treasure lying in the pyramids of Egypt. He embarks on a journey of finding the treasure after meeting an old man . In his journey he met different people namely - a merchant, Englishman, an alchemist, and love of his life. He keeps learning the important lessons of life while on his journey to the Pyramids. The main theme of the book is about finding and fulfilling one's purpose (personal legend) in life.The author has used notions like personal legend, Language of universe, soul of world etc frequently. The storytelling is captivating and interesting. The story tells us to keep faith and hope in all circumstances. Also t...

  BOOK REVIEW TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE                                                         - MITCH ALBOM          "Tuesdays with Morrie” is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about the series of visits he made to his former sociology professor Morrie. This book teaches us common life lessons and leaves it on the reader to interpret it in his own way. It's a book that does leave its impact on you! As Mitch learns of his most loved and favourite professor from university is dying he sets back to find him, and speak to him, relish in his knowledge and wisdom of this world, of this life. They meet every Tuesday, and talk about death, life, love, family, regrets, emotions, money, culture, forgiveness. All lessons that can't be taught in a textbook but instead spoken from years of experience. Morrie, is so inspiring, her...

 BOOK REVIEW THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS                                            - ARUNDHATI ROY      The story spans over three generations masterfully crafted taking us back and forth the timeline. The attention to detail is in such magnitude that the effects of each incident in the book affect one's, feeble heart profoundly. At least for me, certain events from the book caused so much damage that I had to go days mulling over the tragedies and agonies of it all. It fondles the political standing of the state, castism, untouchability was so panoramic that it was almost unbelievable. It was quite informative to me(who has very little knowledge of past politics) and I had to do some research on the tensions prevailing at that time which the book resonates throughout. However, the essence of such tensions still linger even today its roots running deep and Roy t...

THE LEGEND OF KHASAK                                              O.V. VIJAYAN O.V.VIJAYAN Book Review-                     ◆_◆◆_◆◆_◆◆_◆◆_◆                                                  

The Hangwoman                                 -K.R.Meera Introduction            K. R. Meera is an Indian author, who writes in Malayalam. She was born in Sasthamkotta, Kollam district in Kerala. She worked as a journalist in Malayala Manorama but later resigned to concentrate more on writing. She started writing fiction in 2001 and her first short story collection Ormayude Njarambu was published in 2002. Since then she has published five collections of short stories, two novellas, five novels and two children's books. She won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for her short-story, Ave Maria. Her novel Aarachaar (2012) is widely regarded as one of the best literary works produced in Malayalam language. Her next book Mohamanja was published in 2004. It was translated into English by J. Devika as Yellow is the Colour of Longing (Penguin, 2011). The title sto...

 GOAT DAYS                                    -Benyamin Introduction         Benyamin is a famous Indian novelist and short story writer in Malayalam language from Nhettur, Kulanada, near Pandalam of the south Indian state of Kerala. He has lived in the Kingdom of Bahrain since 1992, from the age of twenty, and his works appear regularly in Malayalam publications in Kerala. His orginal name is Benny Daniel and Benyamin is his Pen name.  Benyamin has written 17 books so far, including memoirs and short story collections and the main theme of his novel is Christianity and the Middle East. Benyamin, the author of the humongous bestseller Aadujeevitham (Goat Days) that has gone into its 100th print run in Malayalam.His 2011 novel, Manjaveyil Maranangal, which has sold over 40,000 copies, has now been translated into English as Yellow Lights of Death (Penguin...