As Boys Become Men by Mukul Kumar Book Review

Book : As Boys Become Men
Author : Mukul Kumar 
Publishers : Rupa Publication 
Genre : Fiction

As Boys Become Men

Hi Guys, This Book is all about three civil service aspirants, Mihir, Uday and Sandeep and their struggle with it. As you know UPSC (CSE) as one of the toughest exam in the country UPSC attracts aspirants across commerce, humanities and science. Aspirants from premier institutions like IITs, IIMs, DU, JNU etc. to aspirants from institutions which you haven’t even heard of. Aspirants from the corporate sector to the education sector and even many unemployed ones.

Role of Mukharjee Nagar

I decided to become an IAS officer while I was in 2nd year of college. I took the plunge and landed in Mukherjee nagar as soon as I completed my BSc in 2018. So, i can related my story with this book because this all about Struggle , FUN , freedom and lot's of learning which you can learn only from experiences.

In the Story,

As i told you in the beginning Three men, came in together to be flatmates in Mukherjee Nagar and continued for their conquest towards CS. The chapters revolve around some lessons and characters from History, still the conflict prevails with Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose style of freedom struggle for the country. The plot has a unique silent character which is Mona Lisa, from the famous painting.

My Rating : 4/5

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They Go to Sleep by Saugata Chakraborty Book Review

Title	They Go to Sleep
Author	Saugata Chakraborty
Publisher	Notion Press, 2019
Length	114 pages

By the way, all the stories of this book are really awesome, I meant you will feel something good and different in the end of the book.

Three stories of this book are joined by nine equally exhilarating tales of ordinary people and the choices that they make under extraordinary circumstances. The compilation will surely compel the readers to keep their midnight lamps burning.

Title of Stories are : 

1. They Go To Sleep .

2. Six Days, Seven Lives .

3. Blowing in the wind .

4. A Man of Letters .

5. P for Payback .

6. Rare .

7. It Was Time .

8. Aperture .

9. The Man Who Sold His Gods .

10. The Other Side .

11. The Short Lives of Shazia Sultana .

12. What's in a Name ? .

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Rewind and Play by Tarun Gautam Book Review

About Rewind and Play by Tarun Gautam

Author: Tarun Gautam
Publisher: TreeShade Book 
Pages: 165

This Book Rewind and play is all around a guy who's name is "Raghav Diwan". Raghav Diwan is living a wonderful, busy life in USA with his wife Tarana and two children. One day he all of a sudden gets a invitation from his school batchmates for a party. A completely frustrated Raghav chooses to attend the occasion, however on a last minute achieves the spot to meet his old companions. His mates take him to old appealing school days and the story starts with the companions began sharing their old magnificent occasions one another.

About The Author

Author, Tarun Gautam is an IIM Lucknow alumnus working for a leading technology firm as a regional sales manager in International markets.

Best thing which i read about Tarun is that,

He was involved in the 'Let's Do it Delhi' campagin to create awareness about clearnliness in the city. 

Conclusion :

I have given Five stars for this novel of the Author, for a sublime flow, well finish, easy to read style and genuine characters with decent catch of human feelings. Would suggest as a decent read.

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New World Reapers by Amritansh Dayal Book Review

Author: Amritansh Dayal
Genre: Fantasy, Psychological thriller
Publisher: Notion Press
Pages: 290

New World Reapers is the story of 4 friends in which 3 of them have blessed with superpowers and their leader is an ordinary human being. The story begins in a time where the earth has been struck with an apocalypse and after the destruction has left the humans transformed into mutants and shadows except the protagonist Athias Dawn, the one without a superpower.
Kudos to Amritansh Dayal. This teenage author has penned down a thriller filled with twists and turns at every point. The author has a nice imagination but the storyline wasn’t that good. The book needs a lot of work on the narrative. The story has ended with a cliffhanger and I hope that the mistakes made in this book will be rectified in the sequel filled with mystery and much more. 

this book has the longest prologue in the history of prologues and it was really tiring just to get through it. In fact, for the most part of it, the prologue would have been better had it turned into a chapter. That would still have been more satisfying. 

So basically, there is this group of four friends, three of who have superhuman powers like controlling the elements, super-strength and so on. Our main protagonist, the only one who has no special superhuman power, but who came out on the top of everyone else because of his practice and strength is probably someone to be respected (I mean, he is the only guy who earned his place, you know? You all just had it by luck)! 

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The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

The Thorn Birds is a beautifully written Australian novel. This story spans over three generations of the Cleary family. It mainly centres around young, Meggie who is the only girl in the family. Meggie's mother only has eyes for her sons which leaves. Meggie feeling very unloved by her mother. Growing up there are many things, Meggie needs to know about life in general, but Meggie knows she can't ask her mother. So Meggie turns to the the local priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart for answers. Ralph is very fond of, Meggie and the more he see her the stronger his feelings become. He can also see that Meggie is also starting to have feelings for him and knows he must put a stop to this before it goes any further. 

As the story unfolds we see the Cleary family deal with love and loss and with loss comes heartache.

Though Maeve Binchy has treated the plot of The Thorn Birds seriously in her introduction to the 30th anniversary edition, the novel is simply a reworking of the staple theme of women's romantic fiction - the seduction by the daughter of the almighty father. Father, bishop, archbishop, finally cardinal, Ralph de Bricassart, with his widow's peak, electric blue eyes, hairless, athletic body, ineffable grace and penchant for sports cars, is the least probable version of the father figure ever to appear in chick lit. The seducing daughter is almost as improbable: Titian hair, unblemished skin, slender body and soul-deep innocence. As in any Georgette Heyer or Barbara Cartland novel, the distant father figure nurtures a hidden and undying passion for the needy daughter figure, which is expressed only in the faintest tremor of hand or lip, and does not burgeon into erection until she has suffered anguish and violation (and they are together at a lesser-known tourist spot). 

I absolutely LOVED this amazing story. This is the first book I've read by, Colleen McCullough and it definitely won't be my last. The descriptions of the places in this book are incredible and you can picture it all so clearly as you are reading. This was a compelling, enjoyable and emotional read. This book took me quite awhile to get through, but it's one of those books that should not be hurried. 

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