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The Watchmaker and Time Author: Devang Kanavia Pages: 118 Publisher: Embassy Book Distributors ‘The Watchmaker and Time’ is a story of Pedro and his love for watches. Pedro’s love for watches was born out of a strange incident back from his childhood. And since then he was so engrossed in watches that he soon became one of the renowned watch designers in the world and came to be known as ‘the Maestro of Time’. One day his granddaughter challenges him about the fundamentals of time. Unable to answer her innocent questions he is put to think that he’s been creating watches all his life but never really understood what time actually is. To know the answers to his questions he sets on to a journey to know what is time exactly. Will he be successful in finding the answers to his questions? To know this read The Watchmaker and Time. My Thoughts: I loved the writing style of the author. The story is written in a simple and lucid language. The writing style of th...

I am a home to butterflies Author: J Alchem Pages: 244           ‘I am a home to butterflies’ by J Alchem is a collection of poetry, quotes and letters. The book is about the emotions that a person goes through when he/she is in love, when he/she goes through a breakup and how he/she is trying to move ahead but it is not that easy as we think it would be. We sometimes get used to a person so much that it is difficult to stay away from them but then when they move on easily and we are still stuck in the same moment living those moments again and again. We are forced to think if they ever loved us or was it just us who were living under a false presumption that the person also loves as much as we love them. The book truly is about you and me and when the readers would read the book it would be about us. To know more read I am a home to butterflies . My Thoughts: I had read and loved the first book from the author ‘Unde...

The Diary on the Fifth Floor Author: Raisha Lalwani Pages: 184 Publisher: Rupa Publication           ‘The Diary on the Fifth Floor’ by Raisha Lalwani is a fascinating tale of a twenty five year old woman who is dealing with some sort of problem when she decides to see the doctor more precisely a psychiatrist. With constant emails to the doctor she finally manages to get an appointment and she arrives at the doctor’s place. The story begins when she enters the doctor’s clinic on the fifth floor of a hospital. The woman informs the doctor that she is here for her sister and that her sister is behaving weirdly these days and is not being herself. She is terrified to open up in front of the doctor and hence is constantly creating a web of lies. The woman is carrying a blue diary with her and tells the doctor that it is her sister’s diary where she makes her daily entry of events that she has experienced or heard of. But the d...

Never Been a Loved One Author: Sivaranjini Ramamurthy Pages: 116           ‘Never Been a Loved One’ by Sivaranjini Ramamurthy is a story which revolves around Chandra Kanth a boy who lost his mother soon after his birth. His father Chandra Sekhar was unable to bear with his wife’s loss and just could not come out of it. In the process he doesn’t even bond with his son and sends him off to live in a boarding school. Soon he returns after his studies and wants to be an actor. While shooting for a film he receives a call from his best friend that he’s getting married and he takes the next flight to his friends place. He meets a girl named ‘Sara’ while travelling and immediately falls in love with her. But he is not very sure if it is love or only infatuation? When all of a sudden there’s commotion among the people and confusion too as to what is happening? Then all of a sudden the flight gets hijacked and our protagonist is at...