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Author = Ernest Hemingway Published = 1952 Publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons Length = 127 pages Summary:- Santiago is an old and experienced fisherman who hasn't caught fish for 84 days but he didn't give up. On eighty-fifth day he went into the sea in a small boat and catch a huge marlin into his hook. He battles the fish for 3 days. After 3 days of the determination, he finally gets the fish and pulls close to the boat and kills it. The fish is too big to fit into the boat so he ties it on the side and goes back home. While going home in the middle of the sea the magnificent fish is nothing but bones. What the book says:- This story is very short and simple but it teaches us a lot like failure versus success, human relationship with nature. Santiago is an old man who is hardworking and never gives up. There is a line in this book " A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated'. Santiago has not caught fish in 84 days but he ...

Author - Paulo Coelho Publisher - Harper Collins Pub Date - 1988 Length - 224 pages Summary :- There was a sheperd named Santiago who lived in Andalucia Spain. He loved to travel  and always use to take his sheeps with him and sold wool for money.  One day he decided to go to Tarifa to sell wool to a merchant. It became dark before he reachs the village so he keeps his sheeps in an empty church and sleep under the tree for a night. In his sleep he dreams that a small boy was playing with his sheeps and take him to pyramids in Egyptian dessert , where the boy tells him, here is your treasure, the movement he was about to tell the location Santiago wakes up. He becomes restless as this had been occured to him many times before. Santiago wanted to know the truth so next day he realize that there was a woman in Tarifa who can solve his mystery. The woman agrees to tell him the meaning of his dream but demands the one tenth of the treasure. Santiago agrees to give her s...

Author - Kalpana Jani Length - 223 pages Pub. Date - 2016 Can we predict our future ? What if we know about it ? Can we change what is going to happen ? Kalpana Jani can tell your future. She is a world renowed Numero-Palmist. By the help of palm reading. She can predict your future opportunities and can give you solutions out of the problems. "Amazing Real Life Stories From A Palmist's Diary" is the experiences shared by Kalpana Jani in her Numero-Palmist journey. She had maintained relationship crisis, job related struggle, good opportunities coming through and many other experiences of her trek.The power of the gems which can bring you out of the mersey. Kalpana Jani had learned this staggering knowledge from her father as he was also palmist.She had succoured lots of people from being into wrong direction.Your hand can tell you lots of things which is kind of astounding. One interesting piece of trivia is I have been visiting her for c...

Author - Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh Publisher - Grapevine  Pub. Date - 2012 Lenght - 239 pages  Summary : There is Deb, Avantika, Shrey and Tiya. The story starts when Deb survive the bomb attack. He was been hunted by the memories of the attack.There he found one diary which was burnt from the edge.  That diary was of one guy named Ritam. Where he has written all the emotions and feeling about this girl named Ragini. One- sided love story.  Deb decided to follow the journey of the owner who is dead now ?! With his girlfriend Avantika, co-worker Shrey and Shrey's girlfriend Tiya. To return this diary to the girl whom he loves- Ragini and the journey starts. My thoughts : "If it's not forever it's not love" book is the collection of suspense, thriller, romance. You would see how love wins at every cost. How beautiful the true love is. Worth reading it. It is a page- turner with revelations in the last quarter of pages. Pick i...

Author - Lara Chapman Publisher - Bloomsbury  Pub. Date - May 10, 2011 Lenght - 256 Pages SUMMARY:- This book is about a girl named Sarah Burke who is immensely beautiful with blue eyes, stunning blond hair and exquisite grades, the only flaw is her nose. Which is not that bad. She got the goal of print journalism. Sarah got best friend Kristen.One fine day of senior year,Rock Conway walks in the class of journalism and yes life of Sarah changes but the problem is Kristen also falls for him. Rock and Kristen starts to come close. When Kristen begs Sarah for help, she does what every best friend will do and things become complicated. It is the retelling of the play Cyrano de Bergerac which was in french and was written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. MY THOUGHT:- This book is very well authored, as it has the whole package of drama,comedy,romance and friendship. The message sentout in this book is wonderful. Flawless teaches us that every person is uniq...