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India’s first gay Olympic gold is not the news headline Saaransh wanted to make. Losing his family and his job is hard. But badminton? That’s not something he will give up. Not even for Brendon. Unless he finds the courage to keep them both.

‘SHY’ is a ~77,000-word contemporary romance novel with gay protagonists that will appeal to the LGBTQ community and romance readers in the YA and NA segment.

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Saaransh’s greatest love is badminton. His dream is to win an Olympic Gold for India. But he harbors another secret desire. Live as his true gay self. He can’t exactly come out and embrace his reality in a country that still considers non-heterosexual relationships as unnatural and illegal. Not if he wants to win that precious yellow medal.

London Olympics, 2012, presents him with a perfect opportunity to achieve both his dreams. While the world is chasing the athletes and stars of more popular sports, Saaransh uses his anonymity to live the gay life for one night. However, he did not count on meeting Brendon, the burly Australian proud gay rugby star.

Romance and love are complicated when you are trying to keep the closet closed and the person prancing around in your dreams outs you to the world.

You lose your family, job, your dignity, and because of cowardice, the only chance at happiness.

Can Saaransh become the person he should be? A sports star who can lead the way for LGBTQ rights in India. World no. 1 who can help provide visibility to the queer community in India? Most of all, will Saaransh become strong enough to confront the world and find a way to Brendon.

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Author Ashish Rastogi

Ashish (he/him) is a physician and medical research professional from India. He has self-published a thriller, ‘The Broken Code’ in 2018 and a sports rom-com, ‘All the Lines to Cross’ in 2020. When Ashish is not busy managing his medical research company, he writes poems, and stories and dabbles in art.

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Have you ever read the books which are based in future time period. Like which predicts what is going to happen in the upcoming years. If yes, the you might find this post really interesting. But if not, then it is totally fine. And you can give a try to this post, for the reading taste.

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Book Title: 2034

Author Name: Bruno Beaches

Format: Kindle, Paperback

Book Review by Monika

In the narration of the story, there is another narrator. Samantha - the Queen of storytelling, who is in her mid 40s. She was a teacher in her young days. Almost the whole society, the people who are living there with almost 10 years now trust on each other because of the shared hardship, and much more. It is the evening time & she is going to tell a story to the kids. As parents of these kids believe in the integrity of Samantha.

This story is set in the future time period and it is about the 2034. 2034 means year 2034, 12 years ahead of 2022. Including the description of mid years. Like 2023, 2024, up to 2034. Along with it, it is description of what happened in the quarantine, situations of human & society, unwanted chemical effects, the sudden changes it brought, etc.

This story is full of suspense, mystery and some unbelievable worries, describing about how artificial food is now a strong need, why it is important to maintain the social distance, there are driverless vehicles, destruction, and the human life is now dependent on the chemicals to save them themselves from chemicals. They are now in a cage, but they have the freedom to do what ever they want inside it. What an irony life plays. Is not it?

Secure zones are created, so that people can save their lives. No additional help of extra & important facilities is there. People are trying to build other communities in the woods and wild, and much more is there.

Basically, story of this book revolves around the destruction, how natural life is adversely affected, how the life of several human beings is in the danger.

What I like: I appreciate the efforts of the Author for the narration style, for imagination, and how wonderfully he crafted the story of destruction in 2034.

Triggered Emotions: I would not like to say anything about story plot, because deep involvement in it can affect someone badly. Like, if you are already depressed or could not stand up with the stories of vast destruction, I can not recommend you this. But this does not mean that you can not read it. Thanks for understanding!

Recommended: If you like thriller, mystery related to destruction, you can go for it.

If you love it, feel free to share it with those who love to read mystery & thriller stories. Thank you for stopping by! Let me know something interesting you have found in this blog post, in the comments.

Monika

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Book Title: The Curse of Kukkutarma

Author: Prateep Roy

Genre: Science fiction + Mythology

Book Review

The story starts with - punishing the students of class 10th, by a harsh nature teacher. The reason behind punishment is - Someone split the ink on Shirt of a simple & humble teacher. But such hard punishment was prohibited in the school.

The Principal of school, was passing nearby, and he Observed the teacher punishing the Kid. He asked him to stop it.

Later, Principal Mr. Brown asked the little boy about his introduction. He introduced himself as Opamanyu Sen. And his mother called him Opu with Love. He is from 6th standard, but he was in the class 10th, as he was aware about the stuff which teachers were teaching in 6th standard.

When he visited to his home, her mother Observed her hand was badly hurt, and she asked him about the reasons. His father Mr. Dwarkanath was trustee of that school. And he said to stop funding the school.

Suddenly, Mr. Father Brown visited to their home and informed his Dad that, they have suspended that teacher for such Karma. Along with it, he told his parents that their son is Prodigy. He has extraordinary skills. His mind is sharp and ahead of the children of his age.

The discussion goes on, and he asked them to reflect over his studies and take suggestions from Jagdish Chandra Bose (1st Indian Scientist, who got Patent).

Later, he was sent to London for his education. His father has now high expectations like miracles from his son, as everyone in the surrounding was saying he is brilliant & extraordinary.

During that year, World War 1 broken out, and it effected a lot of things.

Though, Opu met Isla and his brother, and tried to execute his ideas and plans with them. This is how, they were able to start the preparation of Atityan (a project for spacecraft model). And all 3 were lost in the project deeply.

This book has a blend of history, mythology, science fiction; hand in hand. The story plot is based in the 1900s and revolves around the prodigy kid Opu and his brilliance about interest in Time traveling.

His dream of inventing a time machine, which can help him to travel back in the past, and met the Bhisma of Mahabharata, and why he died, even when he was blessed by boon.

This led him to take his ideas and interest seriously.

My take on Narration:

The Narration could have been more smooth, if a lot of details (explanation of ancient history details) could have been provided in the end, instead of starting and in mid of chapters.

Along, with it, as the book is fiction, so there is not a greater role of research done by Author. Though it's doing great on research based part.

What I Like: I like the theme line & blend of history and mythology, along with the prodigy of Opu.

Recommended: If you like books based on science fiction + Mythology, you may also like this one.

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Love can make someone vulnerable, & stronger beyond limits. It can help to heal. Loving wrong people can even break & destroy people!

Book Name: Against time & destiny! Love Betrayal Revenge!

Author Name: Alka Dimri Saklani

Pages: 280+

Book Review

This story breaks with the conversation of Pihu & Rhimjhim (her cow) in the hills & forests. Pihu and Samarth are the main characters of the story.

Pihu is a 22 year old girl, who lost touch with her Baba (father). Eight years ago, he said unfinished goodbye to them. He used to talk on phone calls on weekends with his family, it was limited to once in month & then disappeared in the last 6 years. Since then Pihu wander in the green lands with her Rhimjhim. She take her to several places to explore the world, Adventure & dangers.

Pihu and her family were shocked to hear that She is announced as the nominee of a 50 lakh INR property of her father. And Samarth visited here for project purpose.

In the journey of verifying documents, they are facing & observing bad side of each other for the wrong reasons.

Pihu is hard working but she is from poor background. It reminds Samarth about his childhood days, which connects them. He likes the nurturing quality in her.

Samarth is Rich boy, he does not know how to have empathy or nurture. Instead, he loves to break.

He convinced Pihu that he will help her to search her disappeared father. She ended up bbserving atleast something good in him.

The story is trying to tie a knot of 2 people who are totally opposite.

She has fallen in love, shared her world with him. Unfortunately, something happened! Probably every girl is afraid of.

She is amazed to see another side of Samarth. He was despair, he was broken because of his past life & wounds.

She was helping him to heal slowly. He was breaking her in return. He was shattering her faith, love, & eventually their relationship.

One day, they were separated by destiny. She was feeling betrayed! The man she was trying to love broken her. Her heart is now full of hate.

What happened that night?

What is the climax of the story?

Are they seeking revenge or they will be able to mend their relationship again?

You can read the book to know more about the story and what happened next!

What I like:

The narration is smooth. It is based on some ground facts related to culture of Indian families and the difference of rich & poor backgrounds. Along with it, the theme of the story is connected well and the flow has given a feel of the movie running in mind.

Recommended: Though I am a girl who has never fallen in love. I believe more about reality & real life. And I do not want to niche it down to limited people, just because of the point that I have never experienced such incidences. Though I can not recommend it to the hopeless romantic people or who are too crazy or possessive about love.

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Mumbai is a land of orphans, everyone is alone & on his own over there.

Book Title: Vodka Vagina Vanity: Tales of the absurd.

Author: Vikram Dhawan

Pages: 300+

Genre: Suspense, Young adult fiction

Sherry is the main character, who seeks help from four rich men, but they refuse to help her out and humiliate her.

Book Review

This story breaks out with the announcement of the Squillionaire that the protagonist is writing an autobiography.

The 4 richest men are trying to help themselves, sitting in 4 different corners because of ego (Male ego), instead of sitting nearby.

The main character has written something to uncover the truth & Lustful nature of these rich rich man. She wanted to bring them down. Her ghostwriter who wrote the manuscript suggested her to not publish it as he was trying to tell some stories must Never be told.

Beautiful and remarkable Insights from story!

Their egos and persona coming in the way of sitting too close to each other.

You can violate a woman between the thighs or you can violate her between the ears, Ring worm excels in the latter.

She is clever, battle hardened and fearless, and lest we forget her confluence of cash and connections.

Public memory is short these days. They will read her book, entertain themselves, and move on to the next circus.

Gentlemen! She has declared war on us! Make no mistake; she wants to bring us down. This could not have come at any worse time.

How fearful are the shadows of night, Ask those who do not have homes to go to.

Some stories must never be told. There is a reason why actresses and starlets do not write all revealing biographies.

My take!

The story is little dragged with lots of conversations between multiple characters with strange names. More than justice and bringing true faces in front of public, the language has lots of adult content.

I have seriously skipped some pages, because the language & context was too much! It shows how Lustful human beings & high profile people can be who have lots of money.

Also, ebook formatting is also not so good. It is creating confusion in few paragraphs.

People usually say, money is King, it solve lots of problems & bring happiness. But I feel, too much money (not talking about money earned by hard work & struggle in genuine manners) creates multiple options & doors for crime & animal side of Man.

Recommended: For age 21 and above.

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Four men wanted to kill Avni, the Queen, for 4 different purposes with 4 different plans.

Book Review

This book is a blend of Mythology, Thriller & crime fiction history timeline with suspense.

It starts with a breathlessness & fainting girl who is struggling to reach out to the breath inhaler.

It is moving forward with the investigation by an Author & officer. They are trying to take it fast forwardly. Later involvement of NWC organization staff, especially Naina changes its direction. Naina scared them to solve it quickly.

Avni the Queen of Goner (a region in Rajasthan); died in mysterious way in a room of Kuldevi temple. She was killed on the first night of becoming Queen of Goner & owner of Kuldevi temple.

But, why & how?

So, people who are investigating, are trying their best to investigate helpers and people who were connected with her, property & Kuldevi temple. They came to know about a secret, which people were hiding & trying to protect, which was also a reason of several life losses.

They found clues, connections, solve it & still it was unresolved till last.

What a surprising story!

There are so many characters, but still elaborated nicely. It is written with nice mystery, surprise & unpredictable plots. The narration is a little difficult to understand & correlate.

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Centuries have passed, & now it is tough to believe, but the rumor back then was that the belongings which were moved also consisted of some secret, which the royal family was protecting.

Kids born on Friday are extroverts by nature. They love meeting people, they love going out and they really excel if they work or study in less clustered places. What do you think?

It is a long story.

They started dating soon after.

They do have a positive vibe around them.

They are different but work so well together.

I always believe that sometimes it would take long, but it is better to wait than pick the wrong one.

People don't exactly follow what doctors tell them; they still trust their knowledge and God's will.

And what if I say that 90% of the deaths are of female infants?

This is the town of Kuldevi, Shakti, who blesses parents with male babies.

Your faith to “her royalty” means nothing if you can't help her even after her demise, he said.

What puzzle was she trying to solve?

I don't get it.

The decor in her room doesn't fit with the theme of the haveli. This is different.

People stick to their beliefs more strongly than their moral code. But I see you happy, which means you succeeded.

It is really a surprising story. If you have ever watched CID TV show, it might be easy to relate.

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Book: The Tenth Riddle

Author: Sapan Saxena

Genre: Fiction, Mythology, Suspense, Thriller

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Book Name: ROSE

Genre: Murder, Thriller, Mystery

Pages: 350+

Book Review by Monika Singh

This story is about Rose! As the name suggests, Rose is a sweet small girl who is soft and innocent, like the petals of Rose in childhood and hard & strong enough like thrones in teenage!

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The story runs parallel about 4 couples. Grandparents of Rose and parents of Rose, are described in such a beautiful manner. Their love is depicted so beautifully. The story & plots are saying it out loud, how deep the love is among them till the last breath.

One third of the story is mysterious, beautiful, delicate, full of suspense, with chill thrill. It gets the pace when Rose is stolen by her uncle and handed over to another couple. She was given a drug dose, to erase her memory before doing so.

When she gains consciousness, she was given a new name and introduced to new parents. Her new mother thought, they've adopted her, but her husband was still hiding it from her that she was kidnapped & drug dosed.

She got a new identity of Angelical. Although their maid Preeti used to treat her like own daughter. This new couple was quite kind & generous towards ROSE.

Peter - father of Rose was consistently putting efforts to find her. A lot of sudden, unexpected things have happen before & after Rose was handed over to her new parents.

Time flew away, Rose biological Mom passed away, by leaving a letter for her, in hopes of 1 day Peter will be able to find out their daughter.

Nine years old Rose is now almost 17-18 years old Angelica. She is not able to recognize Peter, meanwhile she found him creep guy, when he gives it a try whether her daughter can recognize him and they can take her back to home.

The story takes several turns, and move more towards investigation, thrill, murder and much more.

What happen next?

Will she regain her memory?

Peter will be able to take her daughter, home?

You can grab the book to know more!

Also, if you love slow paced thriller full of suspense, you can go for it.

Triggered Emotions: Betrayal, Crime, Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, sexual arousal, etc.

So I can't recommend you this book, if some of/ all, emotions like these can trigger you, especially when you are habitual of reading and feeling books like me.

The book is newly released and I want to say thanks to Author for sending me manuscript of this book before launching.

It took me almost 30 days to read it slowly by reflecting on characters, and they are really well developed. At every unexpected twist, there is so much to learn, especially when we take a pause & reflect on the behavior and how people play in life. Also at that time there were 450+ pages, and I hope extra fluff has been eliminated now. I love this story plot, that I couldn't stop writing this long and detailed review.

I would like to give it 4.5/5⭐

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Monika

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Merry Christmas! My dear Readers!

On this occasion, here is Book Review of a unique story to lighten up your mood.

Book Title: The different bride

Author: Charu Singh

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Book Review

This story revolves around Prakash and Chandrika (the main characters of the story). It is about a sweet friendship & love story! Seems like based on ground facts.

Because I do not believe in love at first sight. But this story is quite different. With vibes of emotions, love, career, honesty & not just love. It is Not love at first sight, story though!

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Prakash confessed Chandrika about the mentality of his mother before taking the relationship seriously! She thought it was an excuse to move on, but later convinced by Prakash to keep things clear before hand.

Because it is about that time period, where love & love marriages were so rare. Like Landline phones might be rare nowadays. Based on that time period, where phone calls were quite costly and people used to send emails for conversations. This story started somehow in this same manner. Love at first call awesome conversation!

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What I like:

Simple, smooth and intriguing narration. The feeling of happiness, uniqueness & satisfaction after lots of struggle at every place.

Beautiful Synopsis and Insights from this Book

I could still feel her innocence, her honesty, and the pleasant smell from her plush body in the air around me. There was something I was feeling for the first time: being wanted in someone’s life. In the office and at home, I was tired of being my best and yet being shunned. That day, at that very moment, someone valued me so much. It gave me a high like never before. I had never felt so desired in my life.

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Internet is flowing from lots of books recommendation. Whenever we google books there are lots of results from reading books, to list of books to read, to books Images, and much more.

No Doubt there is a specific reason behind every recommendation and every book serves a different purpose.

But we do not have so much time to read all the books out there! And people can not read so many books until and unless they are addicted to them or they are an integral part of their life. There are already lots of recommendations out there, and why these recommendations are different from them.

If you have these questions in your mind:

1. Nonfiction books to read

2. Nonfiction books that will change your life

3. What are the best nonfiction books to read

4. Nonfiction books for beginners

5. Storybooks

Etc.

Then, this list is customized and prepared for you, especially for beginners. And these are selected From 80 books I have read in the last 5 years. Along with it, some are recommendations of Trusted friends who love to read books deeply.

So, here are a few books, which are heart-touching, with a vivid range of emotions leaving a long-lasting impact on the heart with their beautiful characters and story narration.

The Silent Patient + A Thousand Splendid Suns

Wake Up, Life Is Calling + Life Is What You Make It

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Also, here are some amazing books, which can help you to improve your life slowly.

Chanakya Neeti

My Little Book of Love

The Psychology of Money

How To Win Friend And Influence People

Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Attitude Is Everything: Change Your Attitude, Change Your Life!

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Staying Strong: 365 days a year

These are for beginners, and simply one book from every genre is enough to teach you a lot of value if you are willing to gain and learn in a short time.

Also, if you are looking for particular topics to understand the depth in short form, here are few books related to human psychology and emotions!

They are not just motivational. They have examples, work plan and tips to improve your current situation.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

No More Mr Nice Guy: A Proven Plan for Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life

40 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Happier

So, if you are reading it, you do not need to search countless articles to select the best books for you. And you do not need to feel furious from the recommendations by people who recommend just for likes or followers!

Happy Reading my lovely Readers!

Regards Monika

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Have you ever felt that why people don't try to understand you?

When we hurt, we feel - only we're one, buried under sorrows & problems.

When we wanna run away from problems, we forget to heal ourselves.

Get up and look around you. Be a keen observer & good listener! You'll realize that you're not the only one.

In this blog post, you're going to know more about the book: My 2nd Girlfriend by Kailash Rajpurohit

Why I've picked this book?

The story seems so realistic & relatable to me. Of course, I've never been in a relationship. But we can't change few things in our life.

Either it's the habit of blind love in relationships, extra caring nature, fulfilling the dreams & more.

I found it relevant because of taking extra care & fulfilling my dreams.

But maturity hit us so hard. It teaches us to live in silence.

If you want to live your life happily, don't let everyone know that - you have a caring heart.

Learn to treat people, similarly - they treat you! But with common sense too, don't react quickly, without even knowing what's happening around you.

Book Review: My 2nd Girlfriend

When I was reading this book, thoughts in my mind & emotions in my heart were floating like a tsunami.

This book is about the story of Kailash, breaking out with his childhood to his teenage & then suddenly a mature teen, who was trying to clear the exam of this real-life, trying to fulfill his responsibilities, towards his parents & younger sister.

As he was not educated enough, & under 18 too, so he was struggling to find out work - not only to earn, but he wants to help his parents.

During the hard & struggling time ( whether it's about finance or emotions ) every small help seems like a big favor. After gaining experience from his first work, he has learned to take risks in life. He entered into an entrepreneurship journey & set up his own company with few friends. Meanwhile, when he was trying to scale it up, he incidentally met with a girl Riya. She entered his professional life as a client, later in his personal life as a girlfriend. And finally, she was important to him, so she got a 50% partnership in his company too.

This relationship started moving towards a love marriage. It was difficult, but they finally got married. But, this marriage failed, soon.

Because when we love someone, we forget to observe their real intentions. We only observe those things, which we want, like Bollywood style.

Someone has rightly said, to live a happy life, you need a compatible, caring, understanding partner & not blind love.

You can't create a home with immaturity, where people have more ego problems & grudges in their hearts. Where people are not ready to accept your family.

The same happened here, & this marriage failed. It breaks down Kailash. He struggled a lot, faced rough phases & finally he planned to heal himself.

In the journey of new life, he met his 2nd girlfriend. What happened next?

What's the ending of the story?

It was successful or not?

What I like :

Simplicity of narration

I wonder, how someone can portrait hidden pain in the heart so wonderfully.

Well, it was like a healing story for me.

Recommended: If you are someone, who has ever felt the love, either it's first or second; go for it. If you've ever faced heart breakups, doesn't matter whatever the reason is, go for it.

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