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Tuesday, 27 August 2019

The Full Circle by Namrata Gupta

'The Full Circle' by Namrata Gupta is comprises with every angle of emotions, excitement in love, pain in loss, frustration in failure,
crime in envy.
The story revolves around protagonist Aditya who loves to travel all around world and interact with maximum people to study their life-style and has habit of collecting souvenir whenever visit new place.
On his journey, he meets Zinnia in Darjeeling and at first glance she makes him embark on a completely uncharted path.
"I don't want to be a part of this story, but I want us to write this story together".
Soon Aditya moves to Sikkim to help Jacqueline to regain her confidence while she was suffering from a difficult period after Loosing his boyfriend. As soon as Aditya finds positive response in Jacqueline's behavior , he moves back to Darjeeling to accomplish his unfinished task.
In this time period Aditya and Zinnia both feel absence of each other and express their love when Aditya reaches Darjeeling at second occasion.

The Full Circle by Namrata Gupta


Aditya gets to know 'There is a another history in Zinnia's life' when he overheard Anita talking with her husband Hudson. Anita introduces herself as Zinnia's mother and landlord of the house.
How the relationship between Aditya and Zinnia will continue? How The obscure history of Zinnia's life will be revealed?

I have enjoyed the book and the plot is very engaging itself.The characterization also instrumental of the story.
Narration is in very simple words and I found myself curious while flipping pages. I would like to recommend every readers, it's not a common love-story , it has a very exciting climax part as well.
Book is now available in Amazon and Amazon Kindle

42 Days of Love by Vikas Trivedi and Smita Agarwal

Donna, diver is an ambitious lady and wants to achieve big in life through her passion of diving. She thinks her achievement will be able to cover up her gloomy personal life. She teams up with 4 crew members in search of huge Nizam's lost treasure with help of submarine called N45. They heads towards North Sentinel island for their treasure hunt. But the 42 days journey is not smooth. Even though they are prepared for calculated risks, what comes in their way is beyond their expectations so ours. They faces many challenges and losses their hopes, but overcomes the situations with optimism and courage. Is the treasure true? Are they able to find the treasure finally?

42 Days of Love by Vikas Trivedi and Smita Agarwal


The story is full of suspense and urge the reader to read further. One will go through situations occur in diver's routine. The inspiring quotes are worth noting. The title could have been more relatable to the actual plot. 
Rating: 3.5/5
Book is available in Amazon.
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Saturday, 3 August 2019

BookTalk at CornerShelf with Deblina Bhattachrya

Author Deblina Bhattacharya is passionate about reading story books. She is pursuing a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. Her debut poetry book 'KNOTS' creates a successful ripples in readers community. The book will experience the readers different emotions and how we are being knotted with others at deferent stage of life.


CornerShelf: Why did you choose to write such a strong emotional book?
Deblina: I wanted to portray the realities of the world in my book, whether they be good or bad. I have struggled a lot in my life, and so has my mother, and I wanted to depict all twists and turns of life in my book. The light, as well as the darkness.




CornerShelf: What advice would you give to writers looking to work on a poetry book?
Deblina: My advice would be, write from your heart. Don't worry too much about form or rhyme. If free verse is what you are comfortable in, then choose free verse as it offers the most leeway. Write on topics you are truly passionate about. Don't write just to write, write to move the readers.

CornerShelf: The narration is not a continuous flow in 'KONTS'.
Deblina: How did you keep track of the different strands and interweaving narratives?
Well, all the poems in Knots were written in different phases of my life. Hence the narrative is not continuous. As they change again and again with the changes in my life and mindset.

CornerShelf: In future would you like to see yourself as full-time Poet/Writer or it was just a trail?
Deblina: My goal in life is to become a full-time writer and poet. As I said, writing is the love of my life.

CornerShelf: Which Indian novelists do you admire?
Deblina: Indian novelists I admire are Nikita Singh, Devdutt Pattnaik, Arundhati Roy.

CornerShelf: A final parting word of advice?

Deblina: Don't be afraid to dream big. If you don't dream, you'll always be stuck in a small hole. Let yourself free, let yourself dream and explore the world
Buy book in Amazon: KNOTS