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I rediscovered my love for reading after quite a long reading slump when I read The fault in our stars, and I cried so much

Since then I have tried to read everything written by this man (I’ll honestly read his grocery list) and as our #mentalhealthawaremonth how can I miss this book by my favourite author

Firstly for me no one puts down the feeling of actually dealing with anxiety and other mental & physical illness like John green

Secondly man how do you know and understand how women thinks ?its awesome

📎Ok now review

This book takes a little time to catch up but once it catches the pace it’s very tantalising most of the time, we are inside Aza’s head, listening to swift and unsteady thoughts of this young girl dealing with OCD & severe mysophobia. The rational part of her,sees a therapist and fitfully takes medication, tries to talk herself down. But her mind is mostly in chaos

Unlike greens other girls she is more vulnerable but still have that quirky humor,

The other characters are Mychal Turner, an aspiring artist, and her best friend Daisy Ramirez, who writes Star Wars fan-fiction with whom she shares most things and had a brief drift.

The other character I really liked is the billionaire’s son Davis with whom Aza begin a relationship. There are other characters too but it’s a short review so….

This book has some really great relatable Quotes(too relatable to be honest) and that’s what I love about John green ,he just gets how the Mind of young adults works in situations and then throws them in to it and take us to their thoughts.

I did not cry in this like in the fault in her stars but I could feel my own anxiety towering during the read.

📎Written in an interesting style of oral history of an iconic band, And because the band members each recall things a little differently, their voices underline the fact that memory is faulty and leave us wondering which parts of the past will remain shrouded in mystery.

📎Decorated with drugs,sex stardom, rock-n-roll along with complex characters that drove me crazy with their hopes, egos, and bad decisions… But they grow as individuals supports the irrepressibly hopeful idea that who you are doesn’t have to determine who you will be.

Schizophrenia by Divakar Choudhury

Mental health is often ignored by people of all classes,

📎This book is a story of a man,a well known teacher,son of a well known lawyer who killed his wife and kids in a rage,got capital punishment which was later converted into life imprisonment due to his mental condition of schizophrenia

📎Of course killing people even incase of insanity is not acceptable but ‘what if this man got treated and diagnosed on time?’

📎During the case the family drowned in debts,and mental pressure,
Written by his brother we see closely how Divakar Choudhury falls in to mental illness and his treatment phase .

📎This book is such a good account of first hand experience with a mental illness,but I hardly see it any where,no reviews on Amazon, Goodreads anywhere,my sister picked it randomly at a library cafe and got so intrigued that we got it

📎 **According to the World Health Organisation, one in every 100 persons suffers from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterised by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. In other words, a person loses the ability to think, feel or behave in a normal way. Patients suffer from hallucinations and delusions – they hear voices and see strangers around them. It starts in the most productive period of life 15-45 years**

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are, understanding the emotions and going through heartbreaks

So these are a collection of poems that revolves around the same theme and also a few more things

📎My view –

Some poems are so beautiful in this collection,they are able to pass on the emotion and the heart of the book is in the right place but this has an overall amateurish feel,it does have the emotion but lacks the finis in both writing and editing/formatting

📎Would I recommend it and to whom?
Yes I would to people around the same age of late teens

📎I know it becomes difficult to critique a book on which the author has spent precious time, effort and money in bringing it out. However, I also believe a healthy and balanced criticism would only help her in his future endeavours. Would like to congratulate the author on her book and wish her the best for the future

Author: Ritu Kakar
Page Count: 143
My Rating: 3/5
Would I Recommended: Yeah

Blurb :
📎This is a story you might already seen from game of thrones to Karan Johar flicks

“Girl meets boy,fall in love, married,have a great time,boy dies”

This story line doesn’t appeal to me any more

📎What I liked?

Writing style which is in first person and feels like a memoir and we can understand clearly how Mira is feeling, the depiction of a well connected joint family & how everyone comes together in the times of needs and most importantly, How the protagonist deals with her grief and build her life around(without any love interest) because that’s how life moves and her stages of grief and how she deals with them is treated amazingl

📎What I didn’t like?
English hangover, which doctor calls his patient “sweetheart” in India??😅

Author: Ritiqa Pachauri
Page Count: 147
My Rating: 3/5
Would I Recommended: YES

Blurb :
Radhika Mishra is a CA,married have a child,life looks pretty much sorted but deepdown she is not in content with her life both personally and professionally

So she takes an unconventional decision for a 30year old Mom and wife and decide to follow her dreams,Will she succeed?

What I liked ?
⭐Simple plot and language
⭐An empowered women character with a well deserved character arc
⭐Sexy cover

What I did not like?
📎I would say the book is pretty basic, and felt filmy at moments but I don’t hate that, because the book is not an over do of that only and has its own glam moments

Author: Sunil Mishra
Page count:180 pages
Publisher: Srishti Publishers
My rating : 3.5/5⭐

Blurb :

📎The book revolves around the rapidly blooming IT industry, focusing on Creative Tech, which was once one of the most successful IT companies in India but now is going downspirals

📎Marshal Scott, an american CEO, is hired and he takes over on the high road but soon is taken over by alot of issues.Including the employees dissatisfaction with his ‘my way or the highway attitude’, frequent policy changes and cultural conflicts

📎Meanwhile there is Satvik, a manager gets caught up in all this turmoil,watches his colleagues leaving the company one by one and ultimately he does too and try to find a more better path for himself

📎Main theme
“Can Creative Tech reclaim its glorious past? ”

📎What I liked
The book was a quick read with simple language and its contents revolves around the present times of IT industry and the struggles which come with it,for someone who has no idea of it,for me this book was informative. The plot is realistic and would definitely appeal to the people from this profession

📎What didn’t work for me?
The plot felt a little one dimensional for me,but otherwise it’s a simple book, nothing much to complaint to be honest

Thank you to @writersclub.india for the review copy,all opinions are my own

The Ramayana Secret Author – Anurag Chandra
Length – 216
Publisher – Om Books
Recommended – definitely
Rating 4 ⭐/5

📎Ramayana meets sci-fi – This is a good quirky & entertaining reimagining of the epic Ramayana,

Blurb –
There are two types of civilizations dwelling the earth one on the outer layer that is naive and not much in touch with the earth and the other more advanced one indwelling the inner earth ,which is more advanced and have much longer life span 📎The outer layer civilization is not aware of the later but they help to maintain the harmony there also

📎So when Ravana capture the kingdom of Lanka and along with it the powerful ancient scriptures,he is threatening the the harmony and peace of the beings

📎During these hours of need Rama an inner earth warrior is given the task to fix things up

📎What I liked ?
In the sea of current trend of Hindu mythology books this one definitely stood out for me,Entertaining reimagining and the creativity of the book overall is amazing. Also author has tried to give all the characters some justice and tried to show them in a new light which is definitely refreshing

📎What could have been better?
Cover
It’s a plot based book but a little more character development would definitely help

Title – All the Bright Places
Author – Jennifer niven
Pages – 378
Publisher – penguinindia
A total 5⭐/5⭐

📎”A heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die”

This one line pretty much sums up the story of the book

I read this book with my guards up, because it’s a story about depression (likely to trigger my own),but I don’t know how I got so attached to fictional characters that I cried and I don’t know why this book got through to me.
For one thing, it doesn’t condescend, it doesn’t sound corny, it doesn’t try too hard.

📎Blurb –
Popular girl voilet and school freak flinch meet on a ledge of a school tower, both considering ending their lives,one is saved by the other and in the midst of death they connect,Then they are hurled together into a project that makes them wander through their home state of Indiana, finding brightness in places they never expected to see it

📎For me this was a story of voilet’s growth in love and life,and especially forgiving herself

Flinch is seen suffering so badly from his mental illness that almost no one seems to understand,buy his few moments of peace with voilet

📎What I loved?
The characters,they are definitely going to stay with me,they literally breath out of the book,they feel so real. What happens to them feels real especially flinch’s experiences, his thoughts.
Also I loved the whole Virginia Woolf tribute

📎What I didn’t like?

This would be more of a suggestion,if you are genuinely suffering from depression , have self-harm behaviour or know someone who does,don’t get this book according to me, because “Spoiler alert – the protagonist end up doing a suicide”

Book – Faaltugiri and other flashbacks .
📎Pages – 148
Genre – illustrated memoir
Author – Janhavi Samant
Publisher – FunOKPlease
Recommended – definitely
Ratings – 4 ⭐/5

Thank you @faaltugiri for the review copy
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Short adorable book
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📎Writing –
The author has wonderfully captured the essence of growing up and personal relationships wih her beautiful and simple writing and such cute illustrations by Abhilasha Khatri
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📎Blurb –
It’s a story of how the author grew up in a middle class family in the 80s and although I grew up in early 2000s growing up middle class is something that I could relate to,like saving gift papers and going out to play and having difference of opinion with parents .
And some moments I could just imagine like – Not every house had TV,the arrival of first colour TV and video players and also how friendly and we’ll connected neighbours were and how young kids could walk around themselves anywhere (safely)
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Also I loved the chemistry the family have with their househelp Nazi and the wonderful ideas little jaanu has of where she came from and how she stayed with them forever .
📎Overall this is a very nice short read