3′s A Crowd – Book Review 2

                                                                                           

 

 

 

 Title : 3′s A Crowd

Author:    Vijay Nagaswami

Price:        INR. 250/-

Publisher: Westland

   This book is 3 rd in series by Chennai based relationship counsellor Vijay Nagaswami. His earlier two books “24* 7 Marriage : Smart Strategies for good beginning” and ” The fifty – 50 Marriage : Return to intimacy” dealt with some tips and tricks abt surviving in marriage in era where divorce are ever increasing.

3′s A crowd deals about understanding and surviving infidelity. Quoting from back page

ITs a myth that only men have affairs.

Who do you think they are having affair with ? It’s not only the aggrieved partner that needs to  understand and survive infidelity. The perpetrator too is sometimes a victim of affair.

Book is divided into two parts 1) Understanding Infidelity 2) Surviving Infidelity

 First few chapter explains how affairs are so common these days specially in middle and higher socio economic class and its like everybody has a token in their hand and waiting for their turn. Author has included several stories about couple who think they are just fren and sharing some 50 sms and 20  mails and few hours on call everyday  is perfectly normal frenship :-) Every line is followed by a story of affair..most of the time ppl think they are casual frens and soon they start feeling emotionally attached.

There are several examples of couple who found their spouse in relationship with colleague and it was so easy to track them down coz of sms/phone bills/email etc.  He also covered e-affair in which couples havent met but are actively involved each other through internet.  And there is something called “peer pressure affair” ( I actually laughed out loud after reading this ) How ppl look for affair just to get out of image of ” party pooper “

Second part which cover surviving infidelity deals with trauma of aggrieved and transgressor patrner and later how to survive the bandwagon.

My take on book – I got this review copy from Blogadda. When I showed my interest in book, i didn’t realise that this in nont fiction book. I hardly read any non-fiction so at first moment i repented when I got review copy but it was not disappointed at all. I liked the fact that author has not looked those in affairs as villian and made book interesting with lot of short stories probably from his clients

My Rating – 3/5

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Life is what you make it

Life is What you make it

Author - Preeti Shenoy

Publisher - Srishti Publisher            

Price – 100Rs

Life is what you make it is the tale of courage , faith and how you can shape your own destiny with sheer hard work and determination and will power.  Its story of Ankita sharma who’s is very brilliant in studies and extremely beautiful. she won college elections and got a post of head of art and culture wing. She is smart , outgoing , humourous an d win everybody’s heart easily. She also has a lover abhi who wrote letter to her with his blood and is truly madly in love with her..In nutshell can say anks as her fren fondly call her was leading a dream life of any teenage girl. She also got admission in one of top MBA college but as all good things never continue….ankita too faced some circumstances that led her to mental hospital. Once expert in remembering whole MBA books now is not capable of reading even children’s books. She also tried to commit suicide and feel pity over her own condition.

Will she ever be able to come back to her own usual self. Is it easy to accept yourself as mental patient after leading dream life ? This book will make you believe in that you are master of your self and though destiny can anytime give you shock of your life but at the end your attitude towards life matter.

I read this book in two sittings and found it nice gripping read….Initially I feel its just another college story , mix of luv stories, college election but after 4-5 chapters  original story become clear and I was glued to book like anything. Author has handled the topic in a very realistic way.  She shows that bad things can happen to so calle d famous and lucky ppl too and there is nothing that bad that you can’t come out of it. Life is really what you make it Its been two days that i read this book and i m still thinking about it and recommending this to my frens………you feel inspired after reading this and really feel like enjoying and cherishing your precious life a lot more…

About Author – Preeti Shenoy is based out in Bangalore , mom of two lovely kids  and has very popular blog – http://justamotheroftwo.blogspot.com/     . I liked her first book too and thats why pre-order her second book as soon as it was available on flipkart.   Overall nice book with awesome cover

My rating – 4/5                                                                                                             

Passing the joy of reading !!

I m in luv with books from long . It gives me immense joy and also give us  different perspective of looking toward world. I always wish that my baby should also feel same pleasure in books that i feel.  

Joy of reading came much later in my life as neither my mom nor dad are avid reader….I cant remember when or why i get hooked to books but now there is no looking back..I equally enjoy reading book reviews too..

I brough first book for angel two days after her first bday. It was touch  feel and listen book from Priddy book publication

Book title :-  Touch Feel And Listen–Duckling And Friends (Board Book)  by  Priddy Pre School (Author)

Its amazing book for toddlers and is best suited to be introduced as first book for your baby. Also child can learn hand eye cordination with this. Angel’s reaction to book was kind of so so….she played with it for 5mins and then put it down… She treated it like any other toy which can keep her interested for 5 to 10mins max.

Then i ordered Again from Priddy Pre school book called Playtime . Its touch and feel book and contain different pages for toys, garden etc.. This book turned out to be one more failure at home as angel never showd interest in this.

Then I ordered two books from DreamlandPublication – Animal book and Bird book.

Surprisingly angel was fascinated with animal books…On first day itself I read 20times this book to her..and its been more than 2 months now and there is not even a single day when we havent read that…Someday its 10times…someday less…but immediately after getting up and before going to bed its must for her

After that I started more books from Priddy books publication like Baby day….and other in series, meal time , bath time , bedtime etc..

I also recently brought Dr Seuss’s book of ABC …I luv the rhyming in book

Big A Lil A

What begins with A 

Aunt Annies Alligator …!!!!

I m a big fan of Saffron tree which gives a lot of tips on kids books.

I want to end this post with angel’s pic with book in her hand…but unfortuantely she never post if there is book in hand..she always jump in my lap and insist ( read force ) me to read the book by pointing finger on pages…

Remember Me

                                                                              

 Sophie Kinsella truely prooves her title as ‘The Queen of Wit Lit’ in this amazing fun read ” Remember Me”

Lexi Smart is 25yr old protagonist who is going through tough time of her life when she didn’t get bonus at office, has a dirty teeth and hair, her boyfren dumped her and also she is going to attend her dad’s funeral tomm. While running behind taxi she suddenly fall down and wakes up in hospital and got stunned to realise that she is 28 and has a perfect life. She is married to millionaire, has a loft size apptt. and on top of that she is boss of her own deptt. She also looks fantastic now with her hairs and teeths fixed and size zero figure. The only bad thing is that she lost her last 3yrs memory with no clue how she achieved all these biggies in span of 3yrs.

And here starts the amazing journey of Lexi rediscovering missing pieces of her lives. Soon she realised that her so called perfect life  is not that perfect as her frens at work hates her, there is rival after her job and husband who hands over marriage manual to her.  In nutshell Lexi find herself in her dream world but lost her own self. She kinda doesn’t like her new self and try to get back her old image. While rediscovering herself Lexi put herself into lot of hilarious and soemtime sad moments , a totally kinsella girl type. I likes office situation…Its really hard…i mean if i suddenly have to do some work and i have no clue how to do it and my boss is behind me to get output… I can’t  even think of myself  in lexi’s position…

Message behind story is all that glitter is not gold types…

So what will happen …will lexi ever going to get back her memory and find more abt husband , a man who is  claiming his boyfriend  and regain trust of her old fresn…..Go and read it…ITs surely a fun read , typical chick lit kinda of book

My Rating -> 4/5

I too had a luv story

                                                                    

This is not book review….there is more to it.

I picked up this book just on my instinct from flipkart and also coz price was too less But due to busy schedule it kept lying in my bookshelf  for more than a month . Last week I was bored with idiot box..as nothing good was coming ..so picked up this book.

Story started with guy name “Ravinder” who is software engineer and working with infosys and looking for perfect match through most common channel of  geeks – Shaadi.com. Soon he find luv of his life Khushi and stayed in touch with her through phone only without seeing her.  After few months they met and get ok from family side to get married soon….Pretty normal like any other luv story.

But there comes twist in tale. Khushi met with accident just two days before her engagement. This news unfold in last section of book…hardly 15pages left….but in those 15 pages i got bigger shock

From lot of facts mentioned below…I just recollect I know Khushi.. …We shared cab for 5-6 days …there were so many facts similar in my colleague Khushi and this khushi mentioned in books

Like

• Accident two days before engagement
• Date of engagement 14th Feb 2007
• House near to one of famous hotel of city ( Name of hotel is mentioned in book)
• She shifted one week before accident from emea to NA ( night shift ) shift  and accident happened while coming back from work at 5:00 AM
• City where she lives and where she works
• Religion – Punjabi sardaar
• Hospital name she stayed in first and after few days move to next hospital.
• She got multiple fracture in her jaw and that was main cause of  her death
• She was sitting at back seat next to driver….driver died on spot and person next to driver was safe and car hit truck from one side.
• Blood was arranged from company where she works by sending mail to all employees
• And above all name

 

All the above mentioned things are same with my colleague and girl mentioned in book.  At the time of death she was kind of hi-hello fren….I felt bad at news of her death but now after reading book…after reading all her emotions and splly abt Ravinder….what he must be going through…I felt terrible. It was big shock for me to read about someone i knew in real….

Two States !!

                                                                                   

 

Two States – thats chetan bhagat recent book…which i read luckily…After having angel..its kind of touch to catch up on my activities and interest..I am not kind of book loving person but really love reading all CB’s book…infact his “one night at call center” was the first one i read completely

Story is simple but way of narration is simply superb..

Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy.They get married.

In India, there are few more steps

Boy loves girl, Girl loves boy.

Girls family has to love boy. Boy’s family has to love girl,

Girl’s family has to love boy’s family.Boy’s family has to love girl’s family.

Girl boy still managed to love each other .they get married

This is what is written at back of book and summarize whole story… There is guy krish who loves south indian beauty ananaya swaminathan…Falling in love is easy but to materialise it till  marriage is not peice of cake.They met in IIMA campus and got mad for each other..Soon college life got over and they got job in  different company.  pre=””>Krish managed to get posted in Chennai which is ananaya’s hometown…He tried his level best through his amusing ways to impress them by giving coaching to younger brother Manju , giving chance of singing at concert to her mother , helping dad with his office work  In second part its ananya’s turn to plead krish’s family and she also did it well..problem came when family have to meet…Well i m not gonna write whole story here..go and grab the book..its worth reading !!!

 

There is good comparison between south indian and north indian living style and mentality. He tries to make fun of both so that nobody feel offended Like for what marble flooring is for north indian family ..its iit degree for south indian

There is important lesson also which i like most.. ” Forgiving – For you ..forgiving doesnt make the person who hurts you feel better…it makes you feel better”  ..so apt and true !!

 

There is something different in chetan’s writing style which makes me hooked to it until i finish it..though for this one i took 1 week to finish…like my homework i use to read it mostly at night or early morning hours