Review Diaries (A Love Fest by D. J. Syngai)

 Name of the book- Q Love Fest by D. J. Syngai.

Stars given - 10.5 on 5 stars… yes you read it right…

My take on the book-

Before anything else let me gush about this preeeeeeety book cause oh my heart it's soooooo amazing. Another reason I am so partial to this book is cause I have a sari of the same color, it's like the book choose me… it's fate. This is a Writer's Workshop book where this limited edition gold-embossed, hand-switched, hand pasted and hand-bound book was assembled.

Yes the book is very impressive and the poems make you feel so many emotions, just like a poem should.

My personal favorite, I know I shouldn't pick favorites cause it's not a very grown-upy thing to do, but #suchamanalithingtodo ,was Not Looking to Gatsby. This one resonates with me in a way that I can't possibly express in words, it's a feeling of knowing something is wrong for you and yet craving it after you yourself have pushed it away.

Oh my Lord!

I sound like a raving lunatic but love if a poem doesn't move you to madness did you even read one? Was it even a poem in the first place?

Ps one thing I personally would have loved even more was if instead of blank verses all of them were in rhymes…

Review Diaries (The Exit Game)

 I just finished The Exit Game and oh my Lord, it was amazing.

A few days back I heard a kid say that a book is a movie for your head, one that you can turn on any time you want to and that's what I got with this book. All the characters were well formed and so life like, wink*wink, see what I did there, play of words me so good at it.
Reading this book felt like watching science fiction movies where you needed to spin a latto to see if it's all real or if you are in a stimulation...
Cue in the goosebumps...
Trust me when I say this, I am so coming back to read this one again.
Ps eagerly waiting for book 2 though.
#suchamanalithingtodo

Review Diaries (Life Unknown- A passage through India by Kartikeya Ladha)

 Name of the book- Life Unknown-A passage through India by Kartikeya Ladha.

Stars given- 5 on 5 stars.

My take on the book-

Remember when you were young, like really really young and used to choose the prettiest covered books to be read as your bed time stories?

Did you ever ask why that pretty book always got read and reread?

Well, simple cause it made you happy!

Now this book too looks like tons of fun and laughter all rolled into one and boy did it deliver it all.

A travel journal that's a lot more than just that, it's like having a chat with an old friend about his travels.

There were times when I could almost smell the cold, thinning mountain air or even the salty spray of the ocean.

My parents are avid travellers and I, though a proud home body, have had her share of travelling and tons of stories as well. Finishing this book made me want to have a chat with the author and share my stories.

Read it for the travel stories,

Read it for the journey glories,

Read it for the charming lines and there are a ton

And it's guaranteed that you will have fun.

Review Diaries (The Guardians of the Halahala by Shatrujeet Nath)

 Name of the book- The Guardians of the Halahala by Shatrujeet Nath (Book 1).

Stars given- 5 on 5 stars.

My take on the book-

I totally blame my grandparents for my love for stories. My Nani on my Mimi's side and Dadu on my Bapu's side used to read my stories, be it the Bengali classics of Thakumar Jhuli or The epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. As a grown up I tried to fill that gap of epic story thirst by gorging on lores of other countries but now I have amazing retelling of the Indian mythologies and yeaps it's like a part of my childhood is back…

This book doesn't really build up, it starts running from the get go and bam!!! You are hooked…

I had a bad couple of weeks, wasn't feeling too well but this one brought up tons of good memories.

First book of the series ended and now I am dying to get my hands on the second one and hopefully it will be soon.

Ps turns out book 4 released a few weeks back so trust me you all are in for an awesome rollercoaster journey for sure.

Review Diaries (Cocktail by Antara Sarkar)

 Ever had that problem with a story that didn't make a mark in your mind?

Like you read and finished but nothing stuck with you or made you think?
This will not be a problem if you give this collection of short stories a read.
Each story took me less than 20 mins to finish and boy were they thought provoking.
Each of them choose to concentrate on a different emotions or even agenda but then result was the same, you kept churning the stories in your mind.
Like what happened after this, did it work?
Did it open more doors?
Were they each other's destiny or actual star crossed...
And so many more questions...
I had an exam today and took little breaks in between revisions last night to finish this one.
Ps when was the last time a story made you feel this way?

Review Diaries (The Paradise Conflict)

 I don't know about you but I have this new found love for distopia.

Somehow it gives me hope, like even during the darkest times there will come a day when things will change and good things will come into being.

This one was no different, when it started with a dash and a bang I was hooked.

The story has a lot of twists and turns and an amazing love story which was sweetened by some not so nice creatures.

The moral here too is the same as many great stories, greed is not a good thing and sometimes it's very necessary to raise your voice out loud.

Book 1 ended at a bittersweet note, needless to say I am looking forward to book 2.

Review Diaries (The Billionaire and The monk)

 Have your ever heard about the newest fad of going minimalistic?

The first time I heard it, I was a tad bit sad you see it was just before my birthday and I was kinda taken aback but like every thing else in the world this too had two sides to it. This book in the first two chapters explained to me the minimalistic art of of living like nothing else could. You see if you opt to take with you things that you absolutely need and get rid of all the things that you can do without, your life will become less complicated in ways that even you can not imagine.

For example let's imagine that you have your absolute necessary objects and have leant to live on only then, so now there is zero waste in your life, ergo no clutter thus you will end up saving lots of time without having to sort through tons of clutter. Moreover money saved is money earned, thus resulting in a total win-win situation for you in every way.

Another important thing about modern day life is our habit of procrastination, we tend to think and in turn over think about situation, if this minimalistic approach is also applied in real life then one can rid themselves this ill habit and spare themselves the pain of overthinking.

The book has been an absolute pleasure to read and helped me in decluttering my mind.