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The Wedding by Julie Garwood

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 30 January
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Romance sections at popular bookstores are smaller than Cinderella’s foot! I found this gem on the dusty shelf of a rent-a-book place..
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#FDD017 (Golden) by Rishika Aggarwal

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 30 January
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Greek mythology seems to rule the world. There are those who like it, and then there is the author of #FDD017, Rishika..
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Hell Island by Matthew Reilly

  • by Rishika Aggarwal
  • 20 January
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Hell Island is a novella that fits in between Scarecrow and Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves (alternatively title, Scarecrow Returns) in..
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Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 20 January
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Her name takes up more than half my title. Her stories took up more than half my soul. When my friend and..
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Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 19 January
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It is not a good sign when you pick up a book reluctantly. I had read Haroun and the Sea of Stories..
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The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly

  • by Rishika Aggarwal
  • 18 January
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Literally. The plot of The Great Zoo of China is pretty simple – China has secretly raised 200-odd dragons over the course..
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Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 15 January
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I first read American Gods in my first year of college . I hadn’t quite read anyone like Gaiman — and I fell in..
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The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

  • by Rishika Aggarwal
  • 13 January
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Welcome to the surrealist’s paradise! Haruki Murakami’s ‘The Strange Library’ is a quick read – clocking in at about 100 pages, half..
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 13 January
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In the mundane rut that are our professional and domestic routines, the universe finds its way to reassure us that it’s got..
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World War Z by Max Brooks

  • by Prakruti Maniar
  • 13 January
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Around October last year I lay disturbed  — dreaming of wars, death, of a dystopian future and my place in it. Source? The ongoing..
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