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Not A Book Review #26: Sea Prayer Khaled Hosseini , Dan Williams (Illustrator)

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  It feels strange when you start the story with blooming flowers and memories, but end the note with a wishful prayer. This book is full of graphics. And the magical land. And the deadly ending. Khaled Hosseini never disappoints.

Book Review #25: Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell (Translator)

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I am blank, lost in no space and yet have piles of thoughts. I want to bow down to The Legend - Geetanjali Shree for creating a masterpiece and bringing to this world, where readers are dying to encounter an unusual art, and writers are still fantasizing to carve out more and more. This book consists of everything. It’s a bible of human, their emotions, their traumas, their livelihood, their ideas on logistic politics and countries, their actions on societal norms, their intuitions on boundaries of families and land, their changing constants of age factors, their last wishes, their colonial urge to survive and their inhuman tendency to become human. This piece of work is assorted in three platonic parts. Parts where nothing makes sense, but at the end, you will regret why this ended so soon.  In the first section of narration, the author has described the simplest bitter-sweet form of chaos among many faces of one family. Amma, the superstar of this tale, was depressed because she ...

Book Review #24: "Pandu's Other Queen" by Priyanka Bhuyan

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This rendition of mythological story interpretation of Pandu’s other queen is quite unusual. I have read about Mahabharata characters through a few reinterpretations in the book “Jaya” by Devdutt Pattanaik and “The Palace of Illusions” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. But this book is just a wrap-up synopsis of one of the under-shadowed persona from the Kuru dynasty. The story revolves around Pandu’s second queen Madri. Author has perfectly showcased the background of the King Shibi and highlighted his generosity and selflessness. There’s a very simple representation of Madri’s eternal love for Pandu, and the keen interest to be his favorite wife. This story takes numerous twists and turns in terms of women’s desires and Kingdom’s responsibilities.  I also liked the fact that the author has emphasized on women’s empowerment topics via a very thin line of interrogative sentences. Some are as follows: “I developed a dislike for Bhishma. Who was he to decide the fate of three maidens?” ...