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Book Title : Americanah Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ISBN :  9780345807465 Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Genre : General Fiction  Publication : 2013 Pages : 477 Binding : Kindle Edition Plot: Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world. As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu - beautiful, self-assured - departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze - the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor - had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.   Years later, Obinz

Book Title : Everyone Has A Right To Love Author : Gagan Madan Genre : Fiction  ISBN :  9781947429260 Publisher : Notion Press Publication : 2017 Pages : 140 Binding : Paperback Plot: Life is too busy but it’s also too easy, if you look closer. Love is too complicated but it’s also too clear, if you feel deeper.   Sometimes laughter is too difficult but a small smile can give us a lot of happiness. Today we all are too busy to prove ourselves and to excel. We have no time for love and we hide our emotions and affection. We always choose our priorities and we will always find time for things that we feel are important and those things which give us happiness. When we love someone, we start to care because love is a priority and not an option in life.  You also have a right to love, so keep loving, stay happy. Rating:  1.5 ☆'s Review: First of all, I would like to thank the author for sending me this review copy in exchange fo

Book Title : Kaash Kashmir: A Play on Love and Loss in the Valley of Fear Author : Rajesh Talwar Genre : Fiction - Drama and Plays ASIN :  B072JCY12R Publisher : --- Publication : 2017 Pages : 196 Binding : Kindle Edition Plot : The play opens with a scene in a garden opposite a large double-storey house in which a young teenage boy of school going years confesses his love to a young girl. The boy, Rohan, is a Kashmiri Hindu and the girl, Ayesha, a Muslim. The two families, the Pandits and the Shahs are neighbors. Soon after this profession of love, together with thousands of other Kashmiri Pandits, the boy and his family are forced to leave Srinagar, leaving their house and possessions behind. It is the beginning of 1990 that marks the Kashmiri Pandit exodus. At first the family stays in a refugee camp in Jammu, awaiting the possibility of return, but hopes of return rapidly dwindling, eventually they move to Delhi. Rohan, who is still in school, decides t

Book Title : Five Days - An Adventure Author : Krishna Pareek Genre : Fantasy Fiction ASIN :  B075SZ7J58 Publisher : --- Publication : 2017 Pages : 142 Binding : Kindle Edition Plot : Derek is growing like any other child around him, laughing like everyone and living like everyone… but he doesn't know an evil incantation is living in his very heart… everything was normal until there were five days to his 18 th  birthday, then… a thousand kind of soul-sucking symptoms attack him… doctors say it’s an unknown and incurable disease but truth says it’s a curse… Now he has no more than five days to live… this sounds horrible at first glance but these are the same days that’ll show him – Sana, secret life of his best friend Anna, truth and his love, Alicia… My Rating : 2.5 ☆'s Review : First  of  all   I   would   like   to   thank  the  author   for   a   free   copy   in   exchange   for   an   honest  review. Moving on to the b

Book Title : Invoked - Hymns of War Author : Karan Bhatia Genre : Mythological Fiction ISBN : 9788175110854 Publisher : Notion Press Publication : 2016 Pages : 200 Binding : Paperback Plot : Krishna is a common man, leading a simple and content life with his wife, daughter and parents. A twisted accident leaves the family shattered and exposed to attacks from the netherworld. The attacks are the small, but integral pieces of the bigger picture. As the family fights back and Krishna struggles to prove himself as the man of the house, the darkest chapters from his past re-open, unleashing a torrent of pain and desolation. Krishna decides to embark on a spiritual journey to save his family. My Rating : 3.5 ☆'s Review : First of all I would like to thank the author for a free copy in exchange for an honest review. Moving on to the book review... How many pages of reading does it take for you to decide