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Mehboob murder
A very well written thriller from a debutante
The author has used all the complexities of human emotions so well, the characters
are well written and the details, their physicality their pain everything is dealt
beautifully. Also one more thing i liked is that the character details are revealed
gradually to keep the reader hooked on, Nupur has also used the locations of Mumbai
so well,Mumbai is not a city or location here, it’s like one of the important characters
and that add such a beautiful layer to an amazing story.
• What I liked? I absolutely loved Nupur’s story telling skills.
• Would I recommend it and to whom?
Yes I would definitely recommend this to all the thril ler lovers
• Summary:
On a rainy September night, six people are gunned down mercilessly in an old Parsi
cafe, café Mehboob in Mumbai.
The mass murder create a public and media frenzy around it, and the murderer is
nicknamed Mehboob Murderer
The headstrong Inspector Intekhaab Abbas is determined to get to the bottom of the
murders. He is part of the core police team, which is formed to investigate the case in
a fixed time frame. As they try to know the lives of the victims more, they stumbles
upon a heady cocktail of love,greed,sadism, lust, jealousy, betrayal, rage, longing,
misery.
As we get to know the victims more and more,the suspects also start coming up in the
picture but the story ends at a very unexpected turn,which I didn’t see coming at all
and honestly I’m not complaining (but I just feel that the actual Murderer should have
been convicted)

Never speak by john Manchester @johnkmanchester
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Publication date: 29 Jan,2019
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Publisher: @tckpublishing
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Publishing Language: English
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Rating 4.5/5
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What i liked ? Smoothly switching perspective
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Overall view : impressedI have never been part of cult nor i have met someone who have been a part of it,but i have read about them and seen documentaries and stuff and this book made me wonder more about the long-lasting, damaging psychological effects of cult memberships.
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Summary : Ray is a struggling artist living in his ex-girlfriend’s home that also work as his studio to sell his art. After hearing news about his ex-wife’s death, he turns to google for more information and falls into the rabbit hole of information,layer by layer he discovers an article about another artist named Karl, who seemed to be someone who vanished into thin air and people have various theories about what happened to Karl.But Ray definitely know something about the whole thing and probably one of the only people willing to talk about it. With the help of Ray’s friend, Bodine, Ray gets in touch with an editor. The editor is eager to publish a book by Ray and his first-hand experiences with Karl after Karl’s disappearance from the music industry, but what about Karl’s strict instructions all those years ago to “NEVER SPEAK”?

IDEA OF THE BOOK

The author have an excellent idea,the whole world he has created its just awesome,

And its not just one world or one theme there are six so strong and enticing themes,i loved the whole idea,infact i personally love sifi and i believe in parallel universes,so all this is just amazing.

SITUATIONS

The author created some really interesting situations too and all six are different from each other which is really very commendable

And again there are six different ones

• NARAK ASTRA

The whole concept of science meets Mahabharat is awesome,the war ,the weapons the characters everything is good

• DEATH BY CROWD

I loved the whole idea of darkweb interview,alot of people don’t even know about dark net and the things go on there in this time and they are addressed it in such a fictitious way

• GENIE

The start was bit cliche to be honest but it picked up quicky, especially strong with the smart and witty lady genie it was the the moth humourous one

• TIME CRAWLERS

This was my personal favourite,i watch a lot of conspiracy theories and this is one of the very interesting one,and the whole scene of asylum is so enticing,the end of this leaves the reader on a thought ehich is amazing

• ECLIPSE

This is the best writing chapter according to me the dark setting with a twisted tale,its very engaging with probability to be a great sci-fi story in it.

• THE CAVE

Probably the best story from the book. The unusual setting, the thrill, the pressure building, the grand descriptions and the happy ending,i loved it.

CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS

Stories usually are of two types

• Plot driven

• Character driven

This is the part which is lacking here the author have created such wonder dystopian universes but each one of them deserve much more detailing,may be due to the lenght of the book everything seems to be too quick .The characters also lack the depth they deserve.

Overall it’s a good idea which passes too quickly

Next book for our #femmemarchfest is Forest of enchantments .
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“‘I forgave you a long time ago,’ I say to Ram. ‘Though I didn’t know it until now. Because this is the most important aspect of love, whose other face is compassion: It isn’t doled out, drop by drop. It doesn’t measure who is worthy and who isn’t. It is like the ocean. Unfathomable. Astonishing. Measureless.”
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I think these words from the book sums up things perfectly,things we do in the name of love have no limits.
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**Me like a lot of urban audience does not relate much to SITA, because i always felt she suffered way more than she needed to in silence,but isn’t that my mom and aunts and sisters too? This point of the Ramayana resonates even today, in the form of the main underlying questions in the novel: How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does a woman need to stand up and say, ‘Enough!’ **
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This book is a retelling of the great epic Ramayana in the form of Sitayana,i would not loathe about how good the writing is or how innovative the story is, because we all know the author writes beautiful and there was not much space for new things in the story but she has definitely researched everything well and included some of the local myths also,
Overall its a very good book and i would definitely suggest this .
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To start this #femmemarchfest and #womenshistorymonth
I would like to introduce y’all to Aisha Chaudhary and her book My Little Epiphanies .
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“zindagi badi honi chahiye,lambi nahi”

Sometimes you read a book or read about a person and it tears you up from inside not because you are sad because you don’t know what to feel, to feel sad would be an insult to the person who stand so tall that I feel like I’m in no position to feel sad for her, I feel rather feel sad for my self and just wonder how some people manage to stay positive with so much going on while I get pissed if I don’t get tea on time.

Aisha Chaudhary was born with S.C.I.D (severe combined immune deficiency) and underwent a bone marrow transplant when she was 6 months old,eventually developed pulmonary fibrosis and She sadly passed away on the morning of 24 January 2015, the very day before her book, My Little Epiphanies, was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival,she was just 17 years old.

This book is kind of her way of letting her thoughts away from the pain and the trouble she was to live with,in the process we get know her & her life experiences at a personal level about.It has her beautiful doodles and short poems,it’s like you are reading her diary while she is going through many variegated emotions.

This little book has it all honesty,mischief,kindness, pain and positivity,hope and love.

I would like to mention a line from the book, and something that I’m recently trying to incorporate in my own life :
“We should be happy about the things we can do instead of being sad about things we are not capable of”.

Next post Following the #femmemarchfest #womenshistorymonth #readingnottrending .. Dear world
Eight-year-old Alabed’s first-hand account of the war in Syria, which began when she was three and led to her creating the now-famous Twitter account that brought her story to the world.
This memoir is written with the help of her mother, Fatemah, provides striking detail and a plea for the world’s help.
Alabed describes how her family lived a peaceful life in Aleppo and how it was shattered when her father was taken by the secret police, how the first bomb blast sounded to her and how quickly she had to learn to run on the rumblings first the plane,how she prays every night for the war to stop
The writer also recalls being worried about losing her Barbie boots, and the guilt she felt over that worry. Alabed moves easily between normal moments, such as watching cartoons with her brother and sharing a tomato with her family during the siege, and shocking ones, such as hearing her first bomb explosion and coming to recognize the sound of different munitions,worries about her mothers delivery of Alabeds younger brother,bombing of her school and death of her friend Yasmin.

Fatemah’s voice is also present in the form of a few chapters in between book, her worry about the future for her country and her daughter and how her being pregnant made it all more difficult.

Alabed’s book is remarkable for the clarity of her voice at such young age about such harrowing experiences.The story she shares can sometimes be hard to read but it gives a valuable perspective on wars and how it impacts children,The book ends with culmination of the family’s 2016 escape to Turkey.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
This book to me felt like a novel that simply explores the perspectives, past and present, of many characters and not necessarily a book with a plot and a well defined storyline
These kind of books have a special place in the heart of a certain type of reader. A reader who puts beautiful, complex writing over plot and feels,someone who doesn’t mind looking back over 100 pages and realizing very little has happened, if it is told in a beautiful language.
The story is weaved around the darkest times of modern Indian history(rom land reform that dispossessed poor farmers to the 2002 Godhra train burning and Kashmir insurgency) but rather than the issues in a Broadway it focuses on microcosm of individuals living through it.
The characters are handful and to do justice to so many characters is very difficult
The first third of the novel is Anjum and her adopted child Zainab plus a large number of other characters, each with a distinctive personality and story to tell.

The second third of the novel takes on an entirely new twist. We move to the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Here the main characters are Tilo and her friends musa, Nagaraj and Biplab . The four play key roles in the free Kashmir movement, a life of terrorism, violence, human rights abuses, and way too many funerals.

The story however ends on a hopeful note as the two plot lines converge,here both Tilo and Anjum desire to save an unclaimed newborn baby in Delhi and that ultimately leads to foundation of Jannat Guest House which is unexpectedly in a graveyard, but it acts as beautiful a community of outcasts that band together in harmony, and to raise an otherwise unwanted child.
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Moving forward with #femmemarchfest of women’s history month,the next book we are taking about
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Fangirl “Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.” .
I myself am a pseudo adult,awkward Potter world fan girl and yes I’m not ashamed of it.
To start this book is isn’t just a charming love story about people, it’s also a love story about fiction and the power of books and fandoms.

Characteristic Rainbow Rowell Novel
Like always she brings life and breathes in to her characters.They are fluid, realistic (Eleanor & Park excluded), memorable, flawed, and relatable. These aren’t the type of characters that stay on the page. They shout, scream and jump out at you because Rowell is just that good. But it’s also her flaw because that takes up a lot of space. In fact, many times it feels like her stories have neither a beginning or an ending, with the reader viewing a piece of a character’s life through a small window of time but I’m not complaining I like this type of writing style which is more of chapter driven,Rowell’s create these characters, place them in situations and we watch them react to situations.
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How can I not include this on our #femmemarchfest .
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Diary of a young girl

I Read this book few years back while my sister was doing a school project about this book,at that time I was somewhat the same age as the Anne while she wrote her diary so I could relate to her and the book at multiple levels and could see how she evolved with time during those years and now after all these years I feel what if she lived,she could have been so much ,if they were not betrayed that day and

It has gained a status of a classic for many reasons ,But before you read this you should know a few things,it is not a novel it’s a compilation of diary entries which people usually don’t expect other people to read and she was 13 years old.

Keeping this in mind this book may surprise you by the outlook she carried of life.If she felt something, her writing definitely made me experience it,I laughed and I became sad and even though I knew how her story was going to end I hoped for it to not end.
**The picture is not mine,I couldn’t find my copy and didn’t wanted to post the Kindle pic,so downloaded this awesome pic from royalty free images**
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Some more info about this book;

It was initially the writings from the Dutch language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the family’s only known survivor, just after the war was over. The diary has since been published in more than 60 languages. .
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