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Friday 30 June 2017

Book Review: Breathing Two Worlds by Ruchira Khanna




About the Book:

Neena Arya, a Delhi-born goes abroad for

further studies and decides to settle down there. Determined to be a 'somebody'
from a 'nobody' she blends with the Americans via the accent and their
mannerisms while having a live-in relationship with her European boyfriend,
Adan Somoza.
When illness hits home, Neena rushes to


meet her ailing dad. Tragedy strikes and amidst the mingling with relatives and
friends, she finds herself suffocated with the two different cultures that she
has been breathing since she moved to the United States. How will she strike a
balance between both the cultures as she continues to support her widowed
mother? Will she be able to do justice to her personal and professional life
after the loss?


Amidst the adjusting she bonds with an
ally and learns about ties beyond blood. On what grounds will she be able to
form an invisible thread that she has longed for since childhood?


Breathing Two Worlds ventures into
cultures and ethnicity allowing Neena to ponder upon her foundation and
priorities.
Available

on
Amazon


Book Trailer: 





About the Author



Ruchira Khanna, a biochemist turned
writer, left her homeland of India to study in America, where she obtained her
Master’s degree in Biochemistry from SJSU and a degree in Technical Writing
from UC Berkeley.
After finishing her studies, Ruchira

worked as a biochemist at a Silicon Valley startup for five years. After the
birth of her son, Ruchira took a job as a technical writer, so that she could
work from home. Soon, she began doing freelance writing work as well.

Her love of writing grew and she started

working on her own books. After four years of freelancing, Ruchira published
her first book, a fiction novel for adults called Choices.

Then came the children’s book The

Adventures of Alex and Angelo: The Mystery of the Missing Iguana. She got a
thumb’s up review from Kirkus Reviews

In January 2016, she has published her


second fictional novel Voyagers into the Unknown. It talks about the quest for
happiness as the heavy hearted tourists travel miles from different parts of
the world to Raj Touristry in Agra, India. Return to their respective home with
a healed heart. This book talks about their journey!

In Breathing Two Worlds, Ruchira talks

about ethnicity and cultures, and helps to strike a balance via a fiction-drama
novel as her characters breathe two worlds.

In addition to writing books, she is a

holistic healer associated with Stanford Healing Partners and also maintains a
blog of daily mantras on Blogspot, called Abracabadra. Ruchira currently
resides in California with her family.

Find

her on:
Website Blog

My Review (3.5/5)

The book had me at its idea. The metaphoric title seems just apt, and someone who relocates to another continent/country can very well relate to the conundrum. The story follows the journey of Neena Arya as she adapts to the professional lifestyle and embraces the work culture of a new culture while still keeping herself grounded to her roots.
This dilemma is as old as time, or at least time since travel was invented. But the point is the story was simple, lucid and easy. It is a quick read too, and the occasional quirks of India and the clashes of the culture are an entertaining element.
The millennial generation will have these lives over and over again, in different forms, so the story makes a whole lot of sense. The interactions between the family members of the protagonist and her boyfriend were warm and cordial, which was a welcome departure from the cliche.

At some point I may have thought that this theme has now been beaten to death and something more crispy is worth exploration, but the story, due to its simplicity, made me finish it till the end. If for nothing else, for the metaphor!


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Tuesday 14 July 2015

When authors start playing: International Author's Day + 2 Giveaways


You guessed it. More often than not, authors play with your feelings. Yes- they murder your favourite character, or they bring a plot with star-crossed lovers, or a ship that doesn't make sense. In all that they do, they ensure that you cry till your tears dry up, you become a walking ghost, as you feel betrayed, agonized, overwhelmed -all at once.

John Green did it in TFIOS/ Looking for Alaska
Veronica Roth Did it.
Suzanne Collins did it
So did JK Rowling.
F. Scott Fitzgerald did it.


Here's a peek into their minds.

Let me write a plot which makes the reader go all:
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And the devil strikes again, s/he just got a plot twist to break your heart into more pieces than we can count
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And when asked why they make their readers go through such tremendous torture, they'll just retort:




We all know there are both perks and perils of being in a fandom, and these are the perils. 
We love it this way, and we love our authors. We may hate the authors for a moment, but the extraordinary moments they give us can never be replaced- through the good and hard times, we love them because they give us the stories that stay with us, give us courage, and make us feel that everything is possible. 

For most of us, they provide the therapy from the disorder of everyday banalities.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS' DAY

Enter the giveaways, yo!

1. I am giving away a copy of Can love happen twice? by Ravinder Singh

Romance Novels are sometimes too cliched. Maybe, romance is cliched too. 
But Love should be something out-of-the-world. The selfless kind, the pure love. 


Now, to win a copy of the book, all you have to do is
Tell me your definition of love.

The most thoughtful, yet hilarious one wins!

Rules:
1. Open only to Indian Residents
2. Word-limit 200 words- though I'd prefer crisp and short answers
3. Limited to one entry per participant
4. Mail your entries to findmereadingbooks@gmail.com
5. Last day to send in entries is 18th July 11.59pm IST

Questions? Leave comments below with your email id!

The giveaway is now closed
The winner is 
*drumroll*
Rahul Rai

2. I am giving away a copy of Half  Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat
(Indian residents only)



Enter the giveaway below:

This Giveaway is Now closed.

The winner is 
*drumroll*
Chittajit Mitra

I thank DDS @ b00kr3vi3ws.com for this initiative












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Friday 17 April 2015

Book Review: Metro Diaries by Namrata








About the book:

Love is one of the most amazing feelings on this earth, one that makes you the most powerful person or the most helpless person in a split second. These stories capture those feelings of despair, longing, love, lust, desire, want, dejection and admiration to create deja vu. Hold onto your hearts as you flip through these pages and take a walk down the memory lane as "Metro Diaries" will revive your innermost feelings and imbibe in you the magic of love. Touching, amusing and deeply moving, Metro Diaries - Love Classics are tales that will hold you from start till end.


About the Author:


Namrata is a prolific blogger known by the name Privy Trifles in the blogosphere who romances life through her writings and aspires to make love the universal language. She dons various hats between that of a contributing author to 7 anthologies a reviewer for leading publishing houses an editor to various books and a columnist. Apart from that she is also the editor for an online magazine called Writer's Ezine. Having mastered the nuances of finance till recently she also held the title of an investment banker closely to let it go to embrace her love for writing fully.




My Review:

This is a collection of some of the most heart-warming love stories. The stories are soulful to their core, and romantic through and through, and each story explores a different emotional dimension: pain, wait, delight, agony, fulfilment, et al. Because well,
"Love stories aren’t created; they are captured."

While I am not very romantic in my choice of books, I'd say this was a decent read. The stories were a giveaway:some of them eventually culminated to the most obvious end, they concluded in a very predictable manner, making romance as cliched as it can get.
However, the surprise was in a couple of the stories which were refreshingly different, and the end was astonishing, in a good way, that is.
There are so many different colors to the stories and a multitude of personalities one can never get bored. There's a vulnerable character haunted by the past, there's someone trying to come out of the closet, then there's another character
I especially liked the pieces of poetry that preceded every story. They have been beautifully written without a doubt, and are heart-rending. Here's an example:
" I want to say a lot of things,
wonder if I will be heard.
I want to hear a lot of things,
wonder if they will be said."

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This book review is a part of b00k r3vi3w Tours.




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