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An entertaining, enjoyable and a fun read.
Based in Bangalore, TGC Prasad isn’t a professional author but comes from a strategic and general management consulting background. Nevertheless he has written several novels and along the way is his latest offering.

This is the story of three friends – who met at NIT Kozhikode (Calicut) and became friends for life.
Venkata (Venkata Subramaniam Adisankara Tanikaburla) or VSAT hails from a small town and is the son of a schoolteacher. Raj Malhotra is from Delhi and is the quintessential Punjabi munda, whose…

Title – Anything Else But LoveAuthor: Ankita ChadhaFormat: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9788122311860Code: 9584WPages: 304Published: 2011
Through the first page, a runaway bride creates a hazy impression on the reader’s mind as the story proceeds with a dream just like a flashback. It is a story of Shewali Singh and Avi Malhotra, who have nothing in common, or so it seems. Will the opposites attract?
Shewali and Avi are destined to meet. What starts with an accidental meeting at the airport carries on later at Bangalore. ‘Anything Else but Love’ takes the…

Pic courtesy flipkartpublisher: Pan books

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

Which self-respecting bibliophile hasn’t heard of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind? The famed love story of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler. Even the making of its movie version is the stuff of legends.

For those who don’t, a quick re-cap : Placed during the period of the American civil war, it is a saga of the end of a way of life that was the southern states of the US, and a beginning of a more modern era after…

This one came after the classic ‘Love Story‘ and the tepid ‘Oliver’s Story‘… and went on to become an international bestseller and a major motion picture.

Every book of Erich Segal is a delightful read and this one is no different. It explores the relationship between as the title suggests, ‘man and woman’, ‘woman and child’ and ‘child and man’. The only thing is that the child is not ‘theirs’, but is the result of ‘his’ affair with ‘another’ woman on a business tour. The novel details the lives of…

Author’s note: To read my review of the Erich Segal classic ‘Love Story‘ please click here.

Here I will write about ‘Oliver’s Story’ based on Erich Segal’s follow-up to ‘Love Story’. Must say… it’s quite a let down. Probably was written… for the same reason that prompts the Czars of Bollywood to make the mandatory sequel to successful potboilers.

Plot summary of Oliver’s Story: Oliver Barrett IV found the love of his life in Jennifer Cavilleri (Jenny). And though the time they spent together was brief, it was enough to…

The other day I was reading a post titled, “The Magnolias Still Bloom – Chapter VIII” by Sumit of huesofinsanity fame. This also happened to be the last chapter of this haunting love story. Let me quote a few lines…
I look at the silver ring on my little finger – the piggy that went “wee wee wee” – and stroke the warm metal, something that’s become a habit. It was her ring, the one that she gave me before she died.
“I want you to wear this to remember…

“Remember the Roses” is a magnificent love story and one of my all time favourite short story with a touch of romance, along with that excellent Erich Segal classic: “Love Story”. I have read its sequel too… “Oliver’s Story”… but it does not come close to “Love Story”… my personal opinion, entirely.

Not just a story – “Love Story” is an experience. It shows us the amazing power of love. This 120 page short novel made me laugh many times during the reading, and when I finished it, I had…

The first ever Mills & Boon book by an Indian AuthorReviewed by Nishita
What better day to post a review of a Mills n Book than on Valentine’s Day?

In January, when the publishers offered me a copy of this book to review, I just had to leap at the opportunity. There was a brief period during my teenage years, when I devoured M & Bs (as we called it). My friends and I had our favorite authors and we would hotly debate on which authors books were superior, and…

The eighteen stories in this collection deals with relationships – love, confusion, contentment, desire, fear, hurt, happiness, bitterness, victory, or loss – in a slightly different context. The author highlights different aspects of gay life, and shows how these men yearn for the same things everybody yearns for – acceptance and a fulfilling life

Written against the background of conservative South Indian society, most of the stories deal with the tender moments in gay relationships interspersed with the coming-of-age kind of realism. The closet breaking scenes are well intended and…

Author: Faraaz KaziFormat: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9788122311648Code: 9565RPages: 303Price: Rs. 175.00Publisher: Pustak Mahal
This novel takes the reader through the school campus where love blossoms in the midst of exams and extracurricular activities. Truly, Madly and Deeply, is the story of Rahul and Seema two students of a school.

It is a story of love that happens between a popular guy and the most accomplished girl of the school. It is a love at first sight for Rahul. However, Seema is unable to understand. The book starts with a prologue and…