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Review #20 - The Last Children of Tokyo
Author: Yoko Tawada Rating: ★★★★ I think more than a review, this will be more of my advent into opinion writing, so bare with me while...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Feb 26, 20183 min read
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Review #19 - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Author: Alison Bechdel Rating: ★★★★ So to get it out of the way, this is the first time I have read an adult graphic novel. In fact, I...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Jan 28, 20182 min read
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Review #18 - Intimacy
Author: Hanif Kureishi Rating: ★★★ You spend years making a family, trying to be the same with someone you fell in love with years ago,...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Jan 25, 20182 min read
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Review #17 - Little Black Dress
Author: Sarah O'Rourke, Brynne Asher, Layla Frost and Sarah Curtis Rating: ★★1/2 A marriage going through crisis. A woman smitten by...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Aug 24, 20172 min read
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Review #16 - Sally
Author: Freya North Rating: ★★★ We all are born with a particular personality, which we develop along the way with different experiences...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Aug 1, 20172 min read
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Review #15 - The Ninety-Ninth Bride
Author: Catherine F. King Rating: ★★★★ The stories of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian folktales), the likes of Grimms' Fairy Tales,...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Jul 20, 20172 min read
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Review #14 - The Willows
Author: Algernon Blackwood Rating: ★★★★ As a child, I never enjoyed classics, no matter how thick or thin the book was. The heavy...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Jun 20, 20172 min read
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Review #13 - A Monster Calls
Author: Patrick Ness Rating: ★★★★ The pain, emotions and suffering that a child can go through while seeing any parent of his or her go...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Jun 4, 20172 min read
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Review #12 - Art in the Blood
Author: Bonnie MacBird Rating: ★★★★ Sherlock Holmes. A legendary name, coined by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 in a Study in Scarlet,...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
May 29, 20172 min read
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Review #11 - The Trap
Author: Melanie Raabe Rating: ★★★1/2 Your sister is murdered, the killer's never caught - how would you feel? And what if 13 years...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 30, 20172 min read
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Review #10 - Girl Interrupted
Author: Susanna Kaysen Rating: ★★★ Mental disorders - a very common topic of discussion, and two words that are often put as labels on...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 23, 20172 min read
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Review #9 - Carmilla
Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu Rating: ★★★★ Throwback to 2008. One of the biggest hit series, Twilight, has just released, causing a world...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 18, 20172 min read
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Review #8: Five Rivers Meet on a Wooded Plain
Author: Barney Norris Rating: ★★★★ Accidents happen everyday. We have all mourned the everyday losses that we read in newspapers through...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 14, 20172 min read
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Review #7: Lion
Author: Saroo Brierley Rating: ★★★★★ I'm from those lucky people who have a family, a name, a house, and the need for street smartness...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 9, 20172 min read
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Review #6 - The Summer Seaside Kitchen
Flora is a paralegal in a big firm in London is living the life she's always wanted to, and yet feels somewhat, incomplete, till a...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 8, 20172 min read
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Review #5: Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs and Search for the Ultimate Equation
Author: Hannah Fry Rating: ★★★½ Everyone in this world at some given point of time has said, "Why can't I find somebody to love?" or...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 6, 20172 min read
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Review #4: Human Acts
Author: Han Kang Rating: ★★★ What happens when you blame yourself for your friend dying? What happens when you feel that you left him or...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 5, 20171 min read
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Review #3: Apple Tree Yard
Author: Louise Doughty Rating: ★★★½ You need to know, that when I go into a bookshop, there is no way I'm just window shopping, I'm going...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 2, 20172 min read
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Review #2: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs Rating: ★★★★ As a child I read a lot of fantasy books, the Harry Potter series being my favourite amongst all. I was...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Mar 1, 20172 min read
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Review #1: Mrs Funnybones
Author: Twinkle Khanna Rating: ★★★ This being her debut book, I was quite skeptical about reading it, maybe because of the fact that...
Surupa Mukhopadhyay
Feb 28, 20171 min read
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