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 Title: I never thought I could fall in Love
 Author: Chanchaldeep Singh Sandhu Publisher:Penguin(India)
 Price: INR 99
 Indiaplaza,Flipkart

             
                  I picked up ChanchaldeepSingh Sandhu’s ‘I never thought I could fall in Love’ published byPenguin(India) expecting it to be a fun,breezy read.The front cover lookedsomewhat attractive(yes,I do have a fetish for lean,waxed female legs)and awitty desi campus novel was what I was looking for after a long,tiring day ofwork.A good 140 minutes and 156 odd pages later, I realized what I had laidhands on was…

Book Title: TheNew Collected Short Stories
Author:Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: PanBooks, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.Rating: * ** */5
Ifyou are an avid reader, you know you go through some phases in life when youjust do not have the time or patience to sit through an entire novel or anyelaborate piece of writing. When I was right in the eye of such a period, aprotracted flight journey prompted an emergency visit to the airport bookstore. And, I ended up getting treated to a collection of short stories soindulgingly penned that I had to force…

Book Review : The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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Thomas wakes up in a box knowing nothing more than his first name. When the box opens he meets the Gladers, a bunch of boys living on their own in an inexplicable world. The Gladers are given deliveries of food and a new person once a month. The Maze surrounding the Glade is closed off at night to protect the kids from the Grievers, monstrosities of flesh and machine. Thomas is riddled with questions, but he knows he was…

Book Review : Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
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Charlotte Kinder is nice. She always has been nice, it’s just what she does. Charlotte’s husband has not been so nice, having had an affair and left his wife and children. After several blind dates Charlotte decides it is time to get away, not just from the country, but to a different time. She comes to Pembrook Park playing the part of Mrs. Charlotte Cordial. Mr. Mallery is brooding, Mr. Grey is fun-loving, Colonel Andrews is theatrical, Miss Gardenside…

Book Review : The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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It is 1962 and Aibileen is a black maid, and raising her seventeenth white child. She has loved everyone of the children she has raised. She is trying to find her way through mourning for the loss of her son due to a senseless accident at his job. At times it seems it is only her own dignity that can keep her going through her trials.
Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan has graduated from Ole Miss and returns home with dreams of…

Book Review : The Host by Stephenie Meyers
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Earth has been taken over by aliens, and it all happened before the humans could do anything to stop it. The aliens, known as Souls, have inserted themselves into humans’ brains suppressing the consciousness of the former occupant of the body. Wanderer has been given the body of a wild human as her host to discover the location of other renegade humans. However, there is an unexpected problem, Melanie refuses to relinqish her mind to Wanderer. In a test of…

Book Review : Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
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Mary Faber is thrust on the streets as an orphan when her parents and sister die. Her clothes are stolen and then she is taken in by the Charlie the Rooster, the leader of one of the gangs of orphans, where she is taught to beg and steal to survive. After Charlie is murdered, Mary finds a new gang leader for the remaining children, and leaves to seek her fortune as a boy, Jack. Mary finds it is a lot…

Book Review : The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
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One clone has survived. The doctor wonders if he will be thanked or cursed because he has left the clone’s intelligence intact as directed.
Matt has lived with Celia, and she has warned Matt to never go outside. One day Matt is seen by two children and he is drawn to them wanting to play. The next time Matt breaks a window and jumps out of the house to play, but his foot is deeply cut. The…

Book Review : Looking for Alaska by John Green
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Miles Halter is tall and skinny, has no friends and loves to memorize people’s famous last words. Miles latches onto Francois Rabelais’ last words, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Miles decides to move from Florida to attend the same boarding school his father attended in Alabama in seeking his own Great Perhaps.
Miles, who is now known as Pudge, is thrown into a friendship with his roommate, the Colonel, Takumi and Alaska, the sexy girl that leaves…

Title: Urban Shots- Bright LightsEditor: Paritosh UttamPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2012Price INR 195Pages: 204Genre: Contemporary Indian Fiction/Short StoriesRating: 3.5 on 5
 This is the third compendium of short stories I have read under the Urban Shots series, and it is the third time I have experienced overwhelming satisfaction with what I read. I have spent considerable amount of time with these three books in the past month, and not a moment spent with them has gone waste. I am not a reader who sprints through books. I am one who…