Book Stop Corner

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”


Lynn Weingarten, an American YA author, pens a gripping as well as an emotional tale, Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls, about two friends layered with enough mystery to keep the readers engaged till the very end, in a way, the author shades light into teenage friendships, trust issues among them, teenage trauma and suicide and mysterious death into her plot.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The anorectic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.” 





Meg Haston, an American YA author, pens a very personal story inspired from her own life, Paperweight that narrates the story of a young teenager, suffering from an eating disorder, recovering from the problem to have a normal life in a treatment center which is closer to hell. This is her story and the story that tells us how she is fighting everyday against her own illness as well as her past ghosts all alone.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.” 





Laura Lippman, an American award-winning NY Times best-selling author, has penned an incredibly nail-biting as well as edgy thriller, Every Secret Thing , that was published in the year 2004 and that has won quite a lot of literary awards. The story revolves around two little girls who unfortunately became a part of a horrific and sad murder of a little baby who was left abandoned by a sitter, seven years later, the disappearance of yet another child speculates and brings back the same memory of that child and will life ever be same for those two little girls who have just served seven years in juvenile prison.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” 





Chris Ledbetter, an American YA author, pens an intriguing contemporary YA story, Drawn, that centers around a young artist and his magical sketchbook which finally pulls him into a thrilling adventure to find the girl of his dreams.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars





Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd, a.k.a, Eliza Redgold, a lecturer-cum-contemporary-romance-writer, pens the story of Lady Godiva in her new historical fiction, Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva, where the author vividly as well as compassionately captures the real story behind Godiva's naked ride through the streets of Coventry, that is based upon Tennyson's famous poem, Godiva.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.” 




Gustave Flaubert, one of the greatest Western novelists who ever lived in France, had penned a beautiful and thoroughly realistic story about common life in a provincial town of France, Madame Bovary and when the book published in the year of 1857, it caused an outrage among the common people of then times, later the book was widely accepted and people had agreed that Flaubert have vividly portrayed the triviality of a common housewife with nothing good to do to pass her days, apart from her religion and her motherhood.

I was tempted to buy this book from Amazon after watching the movie version with the same title featuring Mia Wasikowska and Ezra Miller, that released last month and is directed by Sophie Barthes. Although the movie didn't intrigue me that much, but Emma's life, portrayed through Mia Wasikowska, left me enthralled with the gravity of her pain and her exceptions about married life falling short.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.” 





Nelson DeMille, the #1New York Times best-selling author, pens the seventh book, Radiant Angel in the John Corey series, that features the famous detective, John Corey, who is a former NYPD detective and a former member of the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, the last job forced him to leave it and join hands with Diplomatic Surveillance Group, and this book accounts yet another adventure from John Corey's life.

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Good morning guys,
What a morning! Rain and water clogged streets welcomed my first step out of my house. Sorry can't give you a glimpse of it, because it was pouring heavily and I was scared that my precious Lumia phone would destroy if I take out from my pocket due to the rains. Anyways, I can give a snap shot of my office which has submerged under the water and I had to climb some walls to enter my office. Yeah, I'm very sporty when it comes down to these things, I can climbs trees, walls, houses, and anything!




Yeah so you can imagine the gravity of the situation in my city- Kolkata, which is famous for it's rains, since the whole city goes under the waters, and it feels like a fanatsy novel- a city under water, we are all like mermaids, there are some evil creatures lurking in the water, and there are some angle and hero like craetures protecting us from the evil, now I'm making up a story.

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