Friday, 15 March 2019

Book - From Ashes to Dreams: Life, Dreams and Hopes

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Title: From Ashes to Dreams
Author: Rashmi Trivedi
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Pages: 220
Price: Rs. 100 
My Rating: 3.5/5

Blurb:
Sometimes life brings you at a crossroad, where you have no choice but to live every day as if it was your last one. Naina was at such a crossroad! An orphan, she did not have much to look forward to in life, until she fell in love. Love gave her wings and she started to fly, only to come crashing down as the wind beneath her wings turned into a storm. She tries putting an end to her now wretched existence, but fate has some other plans for her. She comes to know that she has limited time to live and decides to start living everyday instead of merely surviving. She lives every moment without worrying about the future she does not have or the past that could not be undone. She falls in love once again, this time with life! Will fate respect her fortitude?

Review:
It is a story of Naina and her friends. How everything changes for her and she endures everything.

Saturday, 9 March 2019

Book: Innocent Wings - A must read for every parent

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Title: Innocent Wings: Dyslexia | Childhood | Parenting
Author: Shilpi
Publisher: Kalamos Literary Services
Pages: 167
Price: Rs. 199 
My Rating: 5/5

Blurb:
Mother Nature is kind enough to accept one and all, irrespective of their differences. But we as human being create classes of differences and disregard those whom we think are not at par with the norms stated by us. If we would also accept people with a variety of differences equally, then there wouldn’t be any issue left in the society. Little Rudra and many other children like him face various issues because of their incapability in academics and other fields. We have assumed that the benchmark of the child’s performance is his good grades, otherwise, he or she is incapable. Innocent wings is about a child who with assessment and interventions, became from no one to the one in his school. All that is required is lots of love and little care to support their capacities.

Review:
By looking at the title one might feel that only the parents with Dyslexic kids should read this book, but it is so not the case.
Every parent - new, old or planning - should read this book.
Why?

Saturday, 2 March 2019

Book - Aavya: Love that is alien to today's world

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Title: Aavya
Author: Rishabh Puri
Publisher: Kalamos Literary Services
Pages: 230
Price: Rs. 199 
My Rating: 4.5/5

Blurb:
What do you do when your one true love is snatched away from you? Do you find a new love? Or do you go on loving? Raj has known aavya since they were kids. It is only now, at the threshold of adulthood that he has woken up to her beauty and grace. He is a dreamer while she is a realist. Together, they make a perfect pair. Both are visionaries who want to change the world in their unique way. But life has other plans for Raj. Aavya is spirited away across oceans by enraged parents, while Raj recuperates in a hospital. A decade later, Raj has been chasing aavya’s ghost across continents. Will their love find a way back to each other? And can love last when there is no promise that the lovers will ever be United? Aavya is the story of love, perseverance and finding hope in the darkest of times. It unfolds in letters spanning decades; written by those who lived it. At its heart is a hopeless romantic who makes his own world when the world rejects him - Raj.

Review:
Aavya is one of a kind book... seriously.
The way it is written, it is not in chapter form or in chronological order. It is written in letters form and has 'seasons' to depict the time frame.