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J.S.D
Jun 4, 20242 min read
The Girl who left Town
Have you ever lived out like away from your parents, your town, your city, your country away from everything familiar.. Have you felt...
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J.S.D
May 31, 20242 min read
The Sanatorium
Author: Sarah Pearse Pages: 427 Words: 118000 approximately Words can’t describe how bored I felt while trying to finish this book. I...
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J.S.D
Apr 28, 20241 min read
The unmarriageable man
Author: Ashok Ferrey The saying that never judge a book by its cover has its own importance. I don’t abide by it always. Every now and...
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J.S.D
Apr 8, 20243 min read
Comfortable in an Uncomfortable Relationship
While growing up, I have been closer to my mother, more than I have been to my father. One of the reasons may be because Maa was mostly...
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J.S.D
Jan 11, 20242 min read
Full Dark No Stars
Author: Stephen King Total Pages: 453 Total Words: 140000 (approx) This book has 4 different stories, all under the broad genre of...
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J.S.D
Jan 11, 20241 min read
The Moroccan Daughter
Author: Deborah Rodriguez Pages: 293 Words: 87000 approx The Moroccan Daughter is Rodriguez’s second book that I have had the pleasure to...
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J.S.D
Dec 11, 20232 min read
BITTERSWEET
Human life is meaningless, a bottomless pit of unnecessary chores and things to do till we die… we hurt others, knowingly unknowingly,...
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J.S.D
May 25, 20232 min read
Last Man Standing
Author: Aravind Adiga The unescapable back story behind me reading this phenomenal piece of fiction… I read Adiga’s ‘White Tiger’ four...
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J.S.D
Mar 27, 20232 min read
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Author: Nicholas Sparks The last time I read one of Nicholas Sparks’s books, I was barely 19. A disillusioned teenager, who believed in...
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J.S.D
Jan 29, 20232 min read
Never Have I Ever... wrote a review on a Netflix Series
The perks of living alone are many! Apart from having the whole bed to yourself, not having to have any routine, and no chores debate...
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J.S.D
Dec 23, 20223 min read
Monologuing 2022!
Never in the past decades have I felt time running away so fast! The older I am getting, I more I realize that time is slipping faster...
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J.S.D
Nov 23, 20223 min read
ELEVEN MINUTES
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 291 Total approximate words: 81400 Paulo Coelho is a story teller, probably one of the bests that the...
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J.S.D
Nov 18, 20222 min read
THE ALCHEMIST
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 170 Total approximate words: 43000 The first time I read this book, I was younger. Perhaps in my mid...
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J.S.D
Mar 29, 20222 min read
NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS
Author: Jeffrey Archer Total pages: 336 Total approximate words: 1,00,800 SYNOPSIS Harvey Metcalf, one of the protagonists of the story...
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J.S.D
Mar 8, 20222 min read
THE HOPE FACTORY
Author: Lavanya Sankaran Total pages: 350 Total approximate words: 1,19,000 SYNOPSIS The plot has two protagonists, Anand, a family man...
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J.S.D
Feb 12, 20221 min read
TEMPTATION
Author. Nora Roberts Total approximate words. 55000 Pages. 216 Temptation is the second book of 2022, that I have laid my hands upon. I...
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J.S.D
Jan 29, 20222 min read
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Author: Harper Lee Total Pages: 309 Total Approximate words: 1,08,150 The new year hasn’t been the happy one so far that I was hoping...
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J.S.D
Dec 27, 20213 min read
INHERITANCE
Author: Christopher Paolini Total Pages: 850 Total approximate words: 300,000 Last couple of weeks have been pretty interesting. I was...
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J.S.D
Dec 11, 20212 min read
ONE PART WOMAN
Author: Perumal Murugan Total Pages: 240 Total approximate words: 71000 The novel was originally written in Tamil, and then translated in...
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