ALL AMONG THE BARLEY BY Melissa Harrison |Book Review

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,…

THE LAST COLOR |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…

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE| NO SPOILERY GUSH

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…

PRETTY. VILE. GIRL. BY RICKIE KHOSLA | BOOK REVIEW

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…

19th December, 2017 | Thoughts

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…

MEN AND DREAMS IN THE DHAULADHAR BY KOCHERY C. SHIBU |BOOK REVIEW

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,…

TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN BY JOHN GREEN | 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…

COLORFUL NOTIONS (The Road trippers 1.0) | BOOK REVIEW

Title : Colorful Notions,  Roda trippers 1.0 Author : Mohit Goyal  Pages: 200 Genre: Contemporary, travel fiction  Published on: 1 November ,  2016 Goodreads Ratings: 3.78 My Ratings : 4 Stars  Blurb from the book  Would you give up your high-paying job and comfortable personal life to drive ten thousand kilometers across india? Just for…

BOOKS TO READ DURING THE HOLIDAYS!

Holla everyone! I'm finally done with my exams and I cannot wait to dive in my pile of books!  So since we're all done with our exams and we are free and it's winter and HOLIDAY SEASON,  I have for you all some amazing books to read during this time. Its December and it will…

THE ONE MAN BY ANDREW GROSS |BOOK REVIEW

Title : The One Man  Author : Andrew Gross  Pages: 412 Publisher: Pan Macmillan  Published on: August 23, 2016 Genre: Historical And Thriller Goodreads rating: 4.34 ~Synopsis ~ 1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire.…