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Review: Room

Author - Emma Donoghue No. of Pages - 336 Year of Publication - 2010 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ One of the many things that this book taught me is that—it is not important to categorize books in genres. This book wasn’t a romance quite evidently. It contained emotions and sentiments showcasing the mother-son relationship in a poignant manner along with thrills throughout the plot but yet, I cannot label it as a 'thriller'.  I have a habit of reading the book and then watching its movie adaptation to compare them and 99.9% times, I prefer the book over the movie. No big discovery, right? But something really strange happened in case of this book—I liked the movie a little bit more than the book. I know many of you might say that it cannot happen and I totally agreed with it till I watched the adaptation of this book. To be honest, I didn’t get too emotional while reading the book but while watching the movie, there were few moments when my eyes were moist.  It might b
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Review: Turtles All the Way Down

Author - John Green Genre - Young-Adult No. of Pages - 304 Year of Publication - 2017 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ Finally, that I have got my reading appetite back, how could I not read the latest John Green novel? I certainly had to. To be very honest, this book confused me a bit. If I look into the detailed and rather heart-felt description of the thoughts of an anxiety patient, Aza Holmes (the protagonist), I feel Green has given his best to it. No doubt, I could very well relate at some points because I also suffer from mild OCD symptoms. To a normal person, Aza might seem to be very crazy, but I could understand her thoughts and they didn't seem unnatural at all (even though bizarre). That is where Green never fails, the charactersq he creates are very relatable and mostly adorable, even though flawed in numerous ways. Aza's illness keeps on worsening throughout the book. At one point I felt like she would commit suicide and I so not wanted this to happen. For once, I want

Review: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author - Agatha Christie Genre - Thriller/Mystery No. of Pages - 368 Year of Publication - 1926 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤️ I can never help loving Christie's work. And I am never disappointed or bored by a single page of her books. I read this book having an assumption that this time I would be able to guess the climax and the ending. But I was totally astonished by the climax. I actually gaped at the pages with disbelief. The ending of this book is unimaginable, however hard you try. If you want to read classics but don't know where to start, start with a Christie's novel. I assure you, you will never get disappointed. I had randomly picked one of her books at the book fair once and since then I have enjoyed reading her work. The protagonist of this book is Dr. Sheppard and also, the accomplice of Hercule Poirot in this murder mystery. Dr. Sheppard receives a call just after he returns from a meeting with Roger Ackroyd. The mysterious caller breaks the news of Roger

Review: If I Stay

Author - Gayle Forman Genre - Young Adult No. of Pages  - 210 Year of Publication - 2009 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ I expected this book to be quite moving and emotional, a book that would make me cry and laugh at the same time and the words of which would seep into my mind. I am not cold-blooded, but this book couldn't make me cry.  You have to believe that I cry a lot over fictional characters. I did cry while reading The Notebook and Me Before You and The Fault In Our Stars and several other books. And I expected the same to happen while reading this book because it has this death thing hanging all over it.  Mia is just the girl next door with an intense love for classical music and cello. She is 17, has loving parents and grandparents and a cute little brother, Teddy. Everything is just about normal till one morning. The morning when her family decides to go on a drive and an unfortunate accident plunges Mia through an impossible and exhausting turn of events. Mia is the

Review: Before I Go To Sleep

(Contains Spoilers) Author - SJ Watson Genre - Thriller No. of Pages - 368 Year of Publication - 2011 Rating - ❤️❤️❤️(3.5) I admit, this book had me guessing till the end. And the ending wasn't something that I saw coming.  I found this book far more thrilling than 'The Girl On The Train' which was somehow predictable for me. In the beginning, I didn't have even a speck of hint or clue about the climax. That's the thing that kept me glued to this book and I read it by spending my one whole day. I won't say it was a "proper page turner". I had some difficulty in reading the starting one-third part of it because it wasn't much appealing and things were repetitive. But it took a pace after around half of it was read. And the climax was excellent. The book revolves around a woman named Christine Lucas who is suffering from amnesia. She is living from moment to moment without having any idea about her past or future. Her case of amnesia is

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