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Till We Meet Again by Shibaji Bose (Book Reviews: 3/5)

Till We Meet Again is the story of Aryan, a zealous young man who is ready to nurture his passion and win the world when a personal tragedy weighs him down with family's responsibilities. The author has blended emotions, family relationships, vengeance, hope and love in a praiseworthy way in this book. The hidden highlight of the book is the way the protagonist learns life lessons; finding his purpose in life from his sister Rhea, passion and desire from landlady Kavya, sacrifice from his mother, and power of family from his brother Rohan. This is the story of a boy's journey of becoming a man while facing unexpected situations and meeting vivid people. The book starts a bit slow, majorly because of the wide range of vocabulary which might reduce the reading speed as well. The book gains pace after a while and the plot begins to take an interesting shape. This is the book if you are looking for one with a deeper human emotion perspective and feel the words describing so mu

My Words Will Find You by Amit Kumar Srivastava (Book Reviews: 3/5)

 My Words Will Find You is a poem collection by Amit Kumar Srivastava who is an orthodontist by profession. The book comprises of 36 poems with beautiful two-liners introducing the theme of every poem. The paper quality is very good and the poem collection can be finished in a single go. The poems I liked the most are: "How well they play the game Stabbing With Surgical Precision, appearing in your friend's name Curtailing the backdrop of vision, they make salt and sugar look the same." "Brooding over past is like Taking medicine for the disease you have been cured for Anguishing over future is like Taking medicine for the disease you fear will have." The book does need a bit of proofreading since there are a few grammatical errors. Some poems are very deep and beautiful, while some sound as if the poet made more effort into rhyming the words than trying to bring the sense out of the words. I was hoping more from the book because the