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Title: All Among the Barley Author: Melissa Harrison Pages: 352 Published: 23th August, 2018 Publisher: Bloomsbury Goodreads Ratings : 4.26 ~Blurb~ Fourteen-year-old Edie Mather lives with her family at Wych Farm, where the shadow of the Great War still hangs over a community impoverished by the Great Depression. Glamorous outsider Constance FitzAllen arrives from London,… Continue reading ALL AMONG THE BARLEY BY Melissa Harrison |Book Review
Title: The Last Color Author: Vikas Khanna Pages: 240 Published: 18th May, 2018 Publisher: Bloomsbury India Goodreads Ratings: 4.0 ~Blurb from the book~ It's Holi, 2012, the Hindu festival of spring, and back in Varanasi after twenty years, a young advocate is celebrating a nation-wide Supreme Court order against an age-old tradition of social injustice… Continue reading THE LAST COLOR |BOOK REVIEW
Title : Extremely loud and incredibly close Author : Jonathan Safran Foer Pages: 326 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Published on: April 1st, 2005 SYNOPSIS Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the… Continue reading EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE| NO SPOILERY GUSH
Title : Pretty. Vile. Girl. Author : Rickie Khosla Pages: 424 Published on: 10 January, 2018 Publisher: Bloomsbury India Goodreads Ratings: 4.25 ~Blurb from the book~ Everything she touched turned to gold, everything she said turned to scandal, everyone she wanted out of the way...died. Beautiful, talented and wildly sexy, Jazmeen is Bollywood's most in-demand… Continue reading PRETTY. VILE. GIRL. BY RICKIE KHOSLA | BOOK REVIEW
You know, there's this one moment that changes everything, And before that moment comes, there's a slight second of knowing and not-knowing, and you wish there was some way to just stop and rewind, but now the world has lost its colour, and it feels like there's a missing puzzle, like you're full and empty… Continue reading 19th December, 2017 | Thoughts
Blurb A Hydel project in the remote HImalayas- three people brought together by fate. Nanda an engineer from Kerala at the dam construction site, hiding from his past, from the law, torn between the love for his dear ones, and the kalari code of revenge. Khusru, a youth displaced from his native village in Kashmir,… Continue reading MEN AND DREAMS IN THE DHAULADHAR BY KOCHERY C. SHIBU |BOOK REVIEW
*Blurb* Sixteen Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis. Aza is trying. She… Continue reading TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN BY JOHN GREEN | BOOK REVIEW
