Experiences

Title: Those Pricey Thakur Girls Author: Anuja Chauhan Genre: Fiction Source : Self-purchased Copy Synopsis: The story revolves around the residents of 16, Hailey Road. Retired Judge Lakshmi Narayan Thakur -the man of the house, his wife Mamta Thakur and their five beautiful daughters named alphabetically from A to E. The protagonist is D- Debjani Thakur, who lands up a job as a newsreader in the national channel DD .Dylan Singh Shekhawat- her father's kot-piece partner cum friend's son - unaware of her whereabouts, bashes her thoroughly through his article in the newspaper India Post he is working for. As fate has it, they happen to meet - the twists and turns of events following their meeting is something to be found out on reading the book. Discovery: I had read the first novel from Anuja Chauhan "The Zoya Factor" and had loved it thoroughly. So, recently when I came across this title in one of the book selling sites, I picked it up just because th...

  Title: Tuesdays With Morrie Author: Mitch Albom Genre: Biography Source: Self-purchased copy Synopsis: Tuesdays With Morrie is a short account of the discussions between a 78 year old Professor Morrie Schwartz and his student Mitch Albom during the last 14 weeks of his life. Morrie was Mitch's favourite professor and on the day of his graduation, he had promised Morrie that he would be in touch with him. He could not keep his promise and it was only after 16 years of his graduation that he met Morrie, that too after he saw him on a television show and came to know of his medical condition. The union strike at the newspaper he used to work in as sports writer gave him ample time to meet Morrie every Tuesday and thereon started the lessons on life. Life as viewed by a person on the bridge between life and death. Discovery: In the year 2007, heard about it from a colleague who was also a book-lover. Even got a copy of the e-book from him, somehow...