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Curly haired bookdragon.
Chronic overthinker. Reading is my therapy.
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❤️‍🔥 Review + Giveaway announcement // "Will You Be My Secret? is a semi-fiction book inspired by the experiences of the author, Sanskriti Mishra"

From its old school setting of a typewriter and the letters Aayana writes using it, this book was an absolute love. It’s a highly relatable, millennial life and love, that’s a perfect read for an evening coffee ritual during these rainy days. ☕️

I loved the idea where the completion of each event is through a letter Aayana writes and reading those letters became my favourite part. 💌

It’s the tale of Aayana and Nikumbh. Two entrepreneurs cum employees running their own battle between things they love doing, hate doing, should do and shouldn’t do!

Aayana, the mystery girl is an author, who decides to start fresh a new chapter of her life, leaving behind the tormented past, while holding tight to what gives her pleasure, her writing career. An author who believes experiences make the muse.

Nikumbh, who grew up from a kid whose childhood was a terror, to a young adult with commitments which he has taken upon on himself willingly, find love between his helpless life, a life that never let him slow down and enjoy.

The friendship and connection they shared was so smile-bringing, also I have to mention Sneha and Daksh for being two great friends.

Both of them have their share of sad past which they never wish to visit again. Their meeting is between their attempt to Stop-Breathe-Start new. Though they found escape and solace in each other what fate had for them is a 'forbidden love'!

While Aayana’s intention of arriving in Mumbai is to find experiences for her next book, what she finds is love where 'she is writing the story, which he is living in.
How far will she go to create a story? Will they find their love or end up being each other’s heartbreak?'

🎁 Enter the Giveaway on my next post to win a chance to take home this wonderful work of art, and find the answers to yourself.

I enjoyed this book from the start to the end, a perfect narration. I loved the book cover, the color tone and the simple beautiful edit. I’m honestly looking forward to more from this young author 🌻

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Bhadauriaaz clearly had some fun.😂

High on happiness 💃 on the middle child's birthday who gave us bhaaw only for the pictures that day 🤐💩
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Quote Of The Day:

"People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them."

From~ How to Win Friends and Influence People
By Dale Carnegie

Borrow your next read for Free from the 1000+ books available at ReadingRoots (link in bio).

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You know the feeling when a novel is so exquisitely beautiful that it is difficult for you to cherry pick just a few favourite moments? This was just that novel for me!

Narrated as a stream of consciousness, Tishani Doshi stitches together a vivid and captivating tapestry of family dynamics, the misery of drifting aimlessly in life, and the gulf that gets carved out between home and a house.

Grace's life as the daughter of an Italian father and an Indian mother leaves her feeling adrift, unable to fully connect with any of her relatives. "I was always the bastard at the wedding, the stranger at the feast." The story beautifully captures the void that many biracial and single children carry throughout their lives. As a single child myself, I could relate to Grace's yearning to have a sibling. So, later when she meets Lucia, the sister her parents always hid due to her Down Syndrome, it's as if she's been handed a lifeboat, a second innings to carve out a meaningful life.

As I've mentioned earlier, the brilliant imagery and prose will tug at your heart. I loved the picturesque landscapes of Southern India, which capture Kodai, Pondicherry, Chennai, and Paramankeni. She also juxtaposes the thriving urban centres with their 'new rush of gold' against the stillness and tranquility of tiny coastal villages and towns - being plundered by the capitalistic forces, rendering farmers and fishermen to be victims. Very subtly, Tishani also brings up the caste violence, animal cruelty, and the patriarchy running amok in rural India.

What I loved perhaps is how beautifully carved out each character was - with their own set of idiosyncrasies, experiences, and emotions - whether it's her mangalkari-clad Christian-Hindu 'Amma' or her 'Papi', an exuberant potpourri of Italian optimism. The clashes of the culture and listless void created henceforth draw you into the story. My only regret might be that although I loved reading this book, I had difficulty connecting with the character of Grace - while I understood her dilemma, I had a hard time feeling the pain.

#bookstagrammer #books #bookstagram #bookishcommunity #igreads #readingindia #readers #book

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Hey fellas! How's the weekend?

Don't know about yours, but my book club #attackthetbr made sure, that all its member should do some shelf cleaning.

Because they started this #bookstackchallenge , so we have to take books out from shelves, click them and then put it back. So why not some dusting first😄.

Well, @readingwithprachi and @attackthattbr this is my book stacks.
Also, I am not exaggerating but this is just one third of my collection, excluding the books from my maternal uncle's home library.

It was fun though, I tried to include as many books I can. But end up with these little bundles only. @_ink_and_fables thank you darling for your igtv videos. I was already editing my pictures from @mobile_photography_snapseed and @picsart , but your videos were helpful; as I was earlier using only limited functions😄.

How's the pictures guyz? I have one more from different angle too,but it's so nice I didn't put it into slide, rather kept it for other time.

You all can also do it, show how many books you have🌈

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Hello fellow Bookstagrammers! I was tagged to do the #booksbeforebookstagram tag by @the.hungry.reader @theobvious.mystery 💛

These questions really sent me down the memory lane and made me feel nostaglic. I have further tagged a few of you to answer the following questions and relive the magic that had initially drawn you towards reading. :')
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Q. When did you start reading?
I started reading quite early in my childhood. In the early years of my life when I was 6 or 7 years old, I used to read comics and magazines such as "Bal Bhaskar" (Hindi) which used to come along with the Dainik Bhaskar newspaper. At the age of 10, I fell in love with my school library and used to be extremely happy whenever there was library period in our timetable. So, at the age of around 10, I fell in love with proper books.

Q. What was the first book you read?
I don't actually remember the first book I read but it must either have been The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain or one the Secret Seven books by Enid Blyton.

Q. Where did you get book recommendations?
During the early years into reading, I used to pick those books from my library which appealed to me on the basis of the blurb and the recommendations of my teachers and the librarian. Later on as technology entered into our lives and almost all of us had access to the internet, I started using goodreads to help me pick my next read and build by TBR.

Q. Which books were your favourite?
Fiction and mythology. Some of them being, Vikram aur Betaal, The Mahabharata, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Great Expectations and of course, Harry Potter :D

Q. What changed after you joined bookstagram?
Joining Bookstagram has not only made me fall in love with books more but it has also made me more creative in terms of photography. It has been a major source of book recommendations for me and last but not the least, I love interacting with like minded people on this extremely positive community who love books as much as I do.
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If you've reached the end of this post, (seriously) consider yourself tagged too in case I have missed tagging you :)

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📚 Norwegian Woods, Murakami
This was recommended to read by so many friends of mine. So I read it last year and liked it. Not that I enjoyed the whole book but I got to know how Murakami depicts his character. This is my first Murakami Read and will definitely read more books.
Let me know how did you find the Norwegian Woods?
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#bookrating 4/5
#thesecretofthenagas begins rite where the #theimortalsofmeluha ends without wasting a word. @authoramish has seamlessly woven other deities like Karthik and Ganesh in this book. Each character is given a proper shape and Anandmayi was the icing on the cake. The book is more about nothing is wholly good or evil but are the two sides of the same coin. The passage of time is quite fast in this book and is often mentioned explicitly. The secret as such is predictable yet the book is a page turner
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I remember a time when bookstagram tags are quite popular and fun. I don't know why they went out of trend. So my dear friend @georgireads tagged me to do a #tenonmytbr and this ten bookish question post long ago. And i thought i haven't posted in a while so here it goes. .
Step 1, the TBR pile: What you see here is the few books i brought from home and also some of the books i bought here in banglore. I have a larger pile stacked at home. .
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Step 2, the questions:

How do you choose the books you read?
-It's quite complicated, it depends on my mood, mostly it's on whim. Sometimes i plan the whole month's TBR. It depends on how excited i am to read a book. Or if i have someone to readalong the book with. .
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Do you buy books online?
-Mostly, yes. Or otherwise from a second hand bookstore. I always have my wishlist ready but i always tend to deviate from it. .
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Do you buy books before finishing another?
-I used to have strict policy of not buying books before finishing the most of the one i own. But things changed last year where i bought books in bulk. But still stacks of unread books on my shelf give me anxiety. .
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What time of day do you usually read?
-Usually before sleeping. I will try to squeeze reading time here and there now, in lunvh time at office and during commute. .
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Favourite genre?
-Well it's changing as i am growing up. For now it's magical realism. Sad books. Stories which make me feel much more than i generally do. .
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Favourite author?
-You must know this if you are following me from while. Salinger bring joy and sadness to my life. Marquez make me believe in magic. Murakami taught me that i belong.
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Do you lend books?
-This is a strict no no. Unless you are from family or a really really close friend.
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How long does it take you to finish a book?
-Depends on many many factors. How free am i? How long the book is. How invested i am in the book. But generally in vacations i will wrap a normal length book in 3-4 days. And in normal busy days it's around a week.

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// What could have put it in my head but the glistening of a tear as it dropped on her work? I sat silent, recalling what a drudge she had been until Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people. I recalled the hopeless circumstances by which she had been surrounded in the miserable little shop and the miserable little noisy evening school, with that miserable old bundle of incompetence always to be dragged and shouldered.
- The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. // • “You are in every line I have ever read.” •
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There is no one like Dickens to make you shiver in the face of convicts, or shake inside Newgate prison! The beauty and agony of this stunning story will tear you apart. One of best work of Dickens.
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I have been reading excerpts of Bukowski's writings for almost 3 years now. Find what you love and let it kill you: the line that has a colossal amount of motivation with a tinge of the ultimate truth-for all other things are really going to kill you, maybe slowly or maybe not; still remains my favourite.

The love of my life aka the curly haired bookdragon aka mere ko sane rakhne waali @iamthebookbug made my life by sending me my first ever Bukowski. A physical copy! I can't express how much I love her. We hardly talk for days, we don't chat, she has stopped sending those beautiful mails, but I know the second I am down with something, she's is the first one I'll call to vent out. Prash, you're the pixie dust in my life 🌠❤️
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Currently 🎧: Katiya Karun
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Hello everyone!! Summer is over, in my country. Bye bye hot weather, hello rainy season. I'm loving the weather now that it is cold. Perfect for reading and sleeping (in short, just being lazy). Unfortunately, my vacation now is over (2 months is so quick). I'll be back to school this coming Wednesday and I'm feeling anxious already.

Sooo, bookish updates! I was extremely jealous seeing all those post about Book Con! You guys are so lucky 💔. Also seeing those sampler of King of Scars!
I'm slowly making some reading progress on Empire of Storms (hopefully I can finished this before Wednesday). I am loving it! And now I have a new favorite pairing: ELIDE and LORCAN 💘💓 I'm also participating in #addictionfictionfriday #addictionfictionjune book challenges! For this week's promt is Favorite Vigilante. I'm thinking of Kaz Brekker and a whole lot of gang from Ketterdam. Still, Kaz's Crew is my favorite☺

Tag time! I was tagged by @pagesenchanted to do the #toptenfavoritebooks tag. (Thank you☺) -The Infernal Devices
-Six of Crows
-Truthwitch
-Shades of Magic trilogy
-Air Awakens Series
-The Wrath and The Dawn
-The Mortal Instruments
-Percy Jackson
-Harry Potter
-Throne of Glass

Feel free to do the tag! ☺

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