Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Post 2

                                                                       

Author: Kim Edwards
Price: 299/-
Publication: Penguin Books Flipkart

This book will make you cry and can even depress you at some time. Story starts in 1964 when Doctor Henry took her wife Norah to hospital who deliver twins with the help of  nurse. While his wife was sleeping and didn’t realize that she has given birth to twins, Dr Henry found out that her daughter is suffering from down syndrome. He instantly remember his childhood where his sister died after 12yrs of struggle due to down syndrome. He remembered how his childhood was different from normal kids because of his sick sister and his parents who have to give all their attention to sick sister.

He decided at that moment only to send his daughter to special hospital who take care of these kids. He handed over his daughter to nurse Caroline and tell his wife that their daughter died immediately after birth.

Caroline didn’t like the place where Dr Henry sent her for handing over their daughter and decided to raise the kid on her own. On the other hand Norah felt too depressed after knowing that her daughter is no more and she couldn’t even see her..Her depression grew day by day.. Now Dr Henry is suffering from guilt of leaving her daughter abandoned, Norah feel sad about death of her daughter and their son feel unwanted in life of his parent.

What will happen to daughter who doesn’t know who her real parents are…will doctor ever be able to tell his wife about their daughter ?

ITs quite slow at some time but I suggest to read this as its full of emotions and remind us how joy and sorrow are interconnected. This books reminds us that we always try to protect our loved ones from suffering but what they want us is true sharing rather than just good times.

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…

Love Life and All that Jazz…

Author:     Ahmed Faiyaz

Publisher:  Sanbun

Price:        Rs. 150/- (available for 99/- at Flipkart)

Love, life & all that jazz is story of 4 frens Tanveer , Sameer, Vicky and Tania and their respective partners. Story started when their college ends and spans over 5-6 yrs.

Sameer and Tania and college buddies and seeing each other from long .however their sweet and very strong relationship faces major hiccups when Sameer decided to go to UK for further studies and later decided to work their only.

Tania is interior decorator and in sameer’s absence fell for her business partner Ankur but Is Ankur really worth of tania..

Vicky is typical rich dad spoilt son who is supporting her model fren Naina and is in madly love with naina.however naina’s new publicity and her dreams of getting big into modeling by doing exposure make vicky feel bad…..but something happen which changes vicky’s attitude toward life.

Tanveer who is from small town and poor family is always burdened from his parents expectation and also center of all jokes by his frens..he fell in luv with his parsi housemate and Tanaj and later got confused to choose between parents or luv life..

What I like about this books is relationship seems real and like today’s youth don’t break after breakups or other family problems ..rather they get up and find a solution for problem. There is lot of positivity in book and frenship between 4 protagonist which makes it fun read….however very predictable happy ending.

Thing which i dont like is it has dates in beginning of each chapter and sometime story progress one year and i need to go back to previous chapter and look for date to understand it .

It no literary masterpiece or not even near to that but good read when you are travelling or for lazy afternoon   I finished it in two stretches..

My Rating :- 3/5