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Loves Lost - Book Review

 Review of Sourabh Mukherjee's book - Loves Lost. The same review is also posted on my other blog - Seduce Your Tastebuds

  • Title -  Loves Lost
  • Author - Sourabh Mukherjee
  • Format - Ebook
  • Print length - 57 pages

A teenager in a quaint Kolkata neighbourhood falls in love with a girl who gets off her school bus every afternoon near his house and nurtures his love as the years pass by. A young entrepreneur turns to work and alcohol to get over the pain of losing the love of his life till she unexpectedly walks back into his arms in a party. A billboard advertisement reveals a shocking truth to a man who has lost his wife and his memory in an accident. An insecure boy fears losing an attractive girl forever when she breaks all contacts with him after they have made love. As a girl nurses her broken heart, she meets a stranger on the Internet.

"Loves Lost" is a collection of five heart-warming stories with surprise endings about love lost, found or left unprofessed in the deepest recesses of the heart.

Reading the blurb, we know what this book is about. A collection of 5 short stories that talk about loves lost and in a few cases, love found!

I have already read A special day, The cookery show and a love story , The sinners by the author and enjoyed reading all 3 titles. So I knew this book too will be as good as expected.

These five short stories come with a twist in the ending which is really nice. Some of the stories are about love untold, lost lost, looking for love, being betrayed in love,misunderstang in love, etc. Its not just about being in love or losing the love but rather takes you though the different patches with a twist in the end which make you go 'Ah'!!

It's not just the types of love that is being brought out here but also so many emotions!Some stories are sad, some makes you happy, there is one that brings a tear in the eyes.

Four of the stories are from the male point of view and one is through the womans voice.

These stories are something that are good to read when you are not into the romance genre. There is no mushiness and does not make you cringe. That is the best part of these short stories!

The title of the book is apt and so is the cover.The writing is crisp and to the point and conveys the story clearly.

It is a quick read and can be done within an hour.

This is one of those books that you can pick up when you have less time on hand or during travel and want to read something short and sweet. Go for it even if you are not into romance genre. The surprise ending will really make it an interesting read!

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An unusual Honeymoon - Book Review

 This is the review of Mamta Kashyap's An Unusual Honeymoon


At a glance:

  • Title - The unusual Honeymoon
  • Author - Mamta Kashyap
  • Format - Ebook
  • Print length - 196 pages
  • Publisher:  Notion Press; 1st edition (11 November 2020)
  • Also available in - Paperback

This is a quick to read Romcom and the full review of this book is on my other blog. Click this link to take you there.

See you soon with another review...







November 2020 - Book Haul

The birthday month was totally jazzed up with a book buying spree. almost 60 books from Bookchor.com and I totally loved each purchase.



Some of these books were bought for the beautiful covers, some because they are hardbound books, some for the titles, some to fit in the prompts for the various reading challenges and some for the kids.

I have moved on to reading more biographies instead of non fiction and that's why you can see so many of those in the list.

I'm in love with each and every book that I purchased even though I am officially broke!

List of Books for the Monthly Motif Challenge

 These are the books that I have selected for the Monthly Motif Reading Challenge . Here are the prompts...



JAN - The upside down king [Mythology]

FEB - Jewel [Historical Romance]

MARCH - Tram 83 [Africa]

APRIL - Shared Tables

MAY - The Globaltrotters [8-12 year read]

JUNE - Secret Garden

JULY - Songs of a coward [ short book of poetry]

AUGUST - Magic of the lost temple [Magic]

SEPTEMBER - The Ayurvedic Diet [ Educate yourself]

OCTOBER - Gone girl [ Black Cover]

NOVEMBER - The street Lawyer

DECEMBER - Padmini [ Historical event]

List of Books for Alphabet Soup Challenge

 I've made a list of books for the Alphabet Soup Challenge . Some of these books cross over to other challenges and some are new.




A - The Ayurvedic Diet

B - Boy in Striped Pajamas

C - The chocolate Log

D - Devil wears Prada

E - Emma

F - False Impression

G - Girls Only!

H - The Help

I - Idlis to Ipads

J - Jewels

K - The Kingfisher secret

L - Loves Lost by Sourabh Mukherjee

M - Malgudi Days

N - Northanger abbey

O - One part woman

P - Plain tales from the Raj

Q - Requlem in Raga Janki

R - Running from safety

S - Solo in Singapore

T - Train to India

U - An unusual Honeymoon by Mamta Kashyap 

V - Vendor of sweets

W -  Wuthering Heights

X - New songs of Survivors [ The Exodus if Indians]

Y - Yes, my accent is real

Z - Zuzu's petals



List of Book for the 52 Club Book Reading Challenge

 This is what I have planned for the 52 club Book reading challenge



  1. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
  2. The street Lawyer - John Grisham
  3. Keepers of Kala Chakra - Ashwin Sanghi
  4. A sensitive case - Eric Wright
  5. Karthikeya - Usha Narayanan
  6. Siddharta - Hermann Hess
  7. Idlis to Ipads - Nirmala Ramasamy
  8. Prison days - Vijayalakshmi Pandit
  9. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  10. Inferno - Dan Brown
  11. Turn the Tables- Priya Kumar
  12. Dinner with Buddha  -Roland Murello
  13. Jungle book - Rudyard Kipling
  14. The upside down king - Sudha Murthy
  15. Wuthering Height - Emily Bronte
  16. The vizard mask - Diana Mask
  17. Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Werde
  18. The chocolate Log - Cheryl Kumar Templeton
  19. Jewels- Danielle Steel
  20. Malgudi days- R.K. Narayan
  21. Angel Falls- Kristin Hannah
  22. Godfather - Mario Puzo
  23. Boy in stripped Pyjamas - John Boyne
  24. Girls only - Victoria Parker
  25. Gone girl - Gillian Flynn
  26. Tram 83 - Fiston Mwanza Mujila
  27. Wicked women of the Raj -Anita Delgado
  28. Padmavati - Sutapa Basu
  29. My favorite nature stories - Ruskin Bond
  30. Dealing with the dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
  31. Simply fly - Capt. Gopinath
  32. Lolita - Vladimir Nabovok
  33. Sheru - A loving Dog - Sudhanshu Mohanty
  34. The help - Kathryn Stockett
  35. Solo in Singapore - Tanushree Podar
  36. The kingfisher secret -Anonymous
  37. The Ayurvedic diet - Reenita Malhotra
  38. To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee
  39. 1984 - George Orwell
  40.  Persuasion - Jane Austin
  41. Unforeseen desires- Anil Chopra
  42.  Prison Diary 1- Jeffery Archer
  43. The girl with a dragon tatoo - Stieg Larsson
  44. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
  45. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  46. The joy luck club - Amy Tan
  47. The secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  48. Mohini - Ramender Kumar
  49. The vendor of sweets - R.K. Narayan
  50. Those Faraday girls - Lauren Weisberger
  51.  
  52. Repeating prompt #18 - Hostage - James Patterson
Still to fill in 1 more prompt. I am double minded on the books that I have already  selected for a few of the prompts. Will update as and when I finalize.

2021 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge

 Here is another interesting reading challenge that I am signing up for. The  - 2021 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge

A theme / Motif for each month is given and we have to read against those. The titles have been picked up and I am reading for this challenge.


I will be posting the updates on my  bookstagram - Me and my bookshelf. Do follow the Instagram account to see what other challenges I will be taking part in.

Stay tuned!!!