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This novel revolves around four major characters, 2 relatively well-off city folks (Dina, Maneck) and 2 belonging to a backward caste (Ishvar, Om) in India. Through the book we see them get together inspite of their many differences to laugh together and understand each other's pain points. The novel is set against the backdrop of the emergency period in India, and sheds light on the gruesome acts committed in the name of “development” to the poor people, and how in the end “development” in a corrupt, broken social system is the same as oppression. This is possibly the reason why, most people find this book too hopeless to continue.

In this book, I realised early on that every happy instance for the characters would be followed by something terrible. (Not a good feeling to experience when you are rooting for all the characters)
While all the characters are very-well written and the writing isn't boring at all, I do wonder whether this is the right ending. It feels like, in the end the reader, like Maneck, loses all hope and resigns to the broken system accepting that no change for the better is possible.

This book feels like reading a play having four acts. While the writing and characters are simple enough, the book as a whole makes you feel raw with emotion.
I loved that.

Cute, coming-of-age book with a good amount of action involved.

I appreciate the writing style but I can't stomach the protagonist's growing obsession with the temple and blaming it for all his shortcomings.
This book reminds me of “Old Man and the Sea”.
I make this comparison because in both the books the protagonist has created this prophecy to “master” something bigger than them.
While the sentiment to gain mastery over your self proclaimed adversary can be appreciated for a while, it is bound to get repetitive.
And that's what happens in this book.

The premise is good but the execution not so much.
This is a tale narrated by an anti-hero, who faces some trials but no retributions whatsoever and that didn't sit right with me.

One of the very few books I have finished in one-sitting. She just sucks you right in her life and holds your attention with her writing and humor.

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell is a very well thought out book. It has a lot of interesting ideas and the references that Jenny Odell makes with historical instances are very astute and important even now. The idea of bioregionalism as a way for people to connect with their actual surroundings rather than some political idea of unity and the notion which the author advocates for a retreat are very well-put among others.

The chapters in the beginning are connected to the main theme of the book but the chapters that are supposed to contain the crux of the book are somehow lax. When the author actually has to answer the “How to” question the answer is very vague.
But overall I really enjoyed the book.

You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld is a collection of short stories. The reason why this book is a good read is that even in a short story the writer makes the characters multidimensional. In a span of a couple of pages you see that the characters aren't just plot points but human.

This book has absorbing characters, an intresting story
And emotions so raw that will make you cry
spoiler alert*
The way it was revealed that Kya was the killer was mindblowing
I mean I don't think I was the only one who was so irritated by the random poems by A. H. popping up everywhere so when it was revealed that Kya was A.H.
I was blown away.

Thrilling!!!
It has a great story.
The characters are really absorbing

Everything about this book is confusing and does not make any sense at all.
The characters are not absorbing they are terrible and pathetic and you just can't understand any narrator's point of view.
The author in my opinion wanted to address some major issues but the output is just bad.

SPOILER ALERT
It just seems too convenient to make the husband the villain (and too obvious)
I just can't understand Rachel's motivation for investigating a crime just because it involved the woman she used to stalk (yes it makes no sense)

This is considered as a modern classic and it has interesting ideas about identity but it feels like the plot is meandering.

I finished this book and the first thought I had - this is it?
Don't get me wrong this might be clever, have a lot of symbolism and themes about belonging but it is so so boring.
There wasn't a single moment where I was engaged in the story.

This is clearly not my cup of tea.
Really need to read something more engaging to get interested in reading again.

I liked the book
It had a very powerful start but in my opinion the thing between Amy and Laurie was just pure nonsense and so was the pairing of Jo and the teacher. It would have made much more sense if Jo had remained single and kept her tomboy attitude and defied the norms of the society at that time.

Okay honestly this is one of those books that was kind of boring (for me) in the starting but I ended up enjoying it way more than I expected.

This was the first book i read by Agatha Christie (yes i gave it a full rating partially because of this)
Other than that i liked this book and it introduced me to the twisted yet great mind of Agatha Christie.
Now coming back to the book the lead characters Tommy and Tuppence both are loveable and absorbing and the story is very interesting
Overall i remember i could just not put this book down because it was just so good.