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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...

J.S.D
Jun 4, 20242 min read
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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...

J.S.D
May 31, 20242 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Apr 28, 20241 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Apr 8, 20243 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Jan 11, 20242 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Jan 11, 20241 min read
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BITTERSWEET
Human life is meaningless, a bottomless pit of unnecessary chores and things to do till we die… we hurt others, knowingly unknowingly,...

J.S.D
Dec 11, 20232 min read
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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...

J.S.D
May 25, 20232 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Mar 27, 20232 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Jan 29, 20232 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Dec 23, 20223 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Nov 23, 20223 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Mar 29, 20222 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Mar 8, 20222 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Feb 12, 20221 min read
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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...

J.S.D
Jan 29, 20222 min read
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INHERITANCE
Author: Christopher Paolini Total Pages: 850 Total approximate words: 300,000 Last couple of weeks have been pretty interesting. I was...

J.S.D
Dec 27, 20213 min read
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ONE PART WOMAN
Author: Perumal Murugan Total Pages: 240 Total approximate words: 71000 The novel was originally written in Tamil, and then translated in...

J.S.D
Dec 11, 20212 min read
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