Neelam's Book Blog

The Last Chai: Bringing the Nation to a Halt Author: Varun T Pages: 250   Review: ‘The Last Chai: Bringing the Nation to a Halt’ is the story of Ajay Kaamate who heads the SPG and is designated to protect the PM and is under a lot of stress and is sent on leave by Doshi, the PM. But Ajay even if he is on his leave is constantly thinking about the PM’s safety and get back to work a week earlier. But his task of protecting the PM is becoming increasingly difficult as the elections are around the corner and the PM needs to be in direct contact with the people. The PM has to attend the SAARC meeting too in Islamabad wherein something goes wrong with the PM. The quest to save the PM is on. The terrorists are not only outside the country but they can be anywhere even in our own country sitting beside us or someone you think you have known all your life and the defence & intelligence agencies are on the search for them working 24 X 7 planning on how to eradicate them and...

A Hundred Little Flames Author: Preeti Shenoy  Pages: 368 The novel talks about the relationship between two people of different generations who meet for the first time and how they get along with each other. The book introduces us to Ayan who is a 26 years old boy who is attending an office party and getting to work the next day and is asked by his HR to put down his papers due to some controversy in the party which he had attended. Even though he was not interested in the job but had taken it due to the pressure from his father he was wondering about how to get about his job search due to the conditions due to which he had leave his previous job. When Jairaj (Ayan’s father) comes to know of this he is frustrated and sends Ayan to live with his muttacha (grandfather) in a small village in Kerala who has just met with an accident and has fractured his leg. He soon discovers that the village is a sleepy, idyllic place and doesn’t even have internet connectio...

Hello!!! This is my first ever book haul on this blog. So, I went on a shopping spree on Amazon and bought 5 books. All books are from Indian Authors. I am tempted to read some of these books in this month itself. In fact, I have already started reading A Hundred Little Flames by Preeti Shenoy and I am 113 pages into it. So, without any further ado lets get into the books that I have bought: 1. A Hundred Little Flames - Preeti Shenoy 2. The Boy Who Loved - Durjoy Datta 3. The Boy with a Broken Heart - Durjoy Datta 4. When Opposites Meet - Sachin Garg   5. I Tagged Her in My Heart - Anuj Tiwari (Yet to receive) 1. A Hundred Little Flames 2. The Boy Who Loved 3. The Boy with a Broken Heart 4. When Opposites Meet - Sachin Garg     5. I Tagged Her in My Heart - Anuj Tiwari (Yet to receive)  I am very much excited to dive into these and let all of you know how & what I felt about these books. ...

Undelivered Letters Author: J Alchem Pages: 60   "Undelivered Letters" is a story of Aron who is a postman by profession and is shifting to some other place with his wife Sara, wherein Sara finds an abandoned bag of Aron’s which he has completely forgotten about. On checking the bag, they find that the bag has 9 undelivered letters from 20 years ago. He is very sad and grieving about the undelivered letters and is angry with himself how can he forget such an important task of delivering the letters. Aron is now left with two choices whether to deliver them now or to abandon them forever. But he chooses to deliver them to the recipients and deal with whatever the consequences are. Here we are introduced with three beautiful stories out of the 9 undelivered letters. The first story is about Cathy and her daughter Kara wherein Kara is missing her dad (Adam) and knows him only through the stories her mom tells her and is waiting for him to return as her mom has t...

The Girl of My Dreams Author: Durjoy Datta Pages: 288   “The Girl of My Dreams” is a story about Daman who has met with a car accident and is in coma. After coming out of coma all that he remembers is that he was in the car along with a girl named Shreyasi.   All he remembers of Shreyasi is her hazy face, her eyes and her name. He doesn’t remember who this Shreyasi is and where did she go? Post accident he has been diagnosed with amnesia wherein he doesn’t remember most of the things from the accident and the events leading to it. Soon Daman starts a blog wherein he starts writing fictional stories about himself and Shreyasi. Very soon the blog gets famous and he is approached by a publishing house to weave his blog posts into a book.   Daman finishes writing the book but due to pressure from his editor he had to mold the story as well as the character of Shreyasi. But somebody is not happy with these sudden changes and then things start taking place. Da...