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BOOK REVIEW: GONE GIRL BY GILLIAN FLYNN

                                            REVIEW - 8 TITLE: GONE GIRL AUTHOR: GILLIAN FLYNN GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER                                           PLOT When the marriage turns into misery, then it's a lethal trap. It's a story of a couple Amy Elliott and Nick Dunne. Amy is a girl suits the phrase "beauty with brains" who is famous since childhood for her children series "Amazing Amy" and an indomitable perfectionist. While on other hand Nick is an ordinary person, raised with a misogynist father. Nick loses his job as a writer at a magazine. Eventually, Nick and Amy relocate from New York to his hometown, Missouri. On the occasion of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy disappears and her husband becomes the prime suspect. Nick's search for his disappeared wife brings more intriguing twist and turns into the story.                                 MAIN CHARACTERS Amy Elliot: Protagonist Nick Dunne: Amy

BOOK REVIEW: KADAL OTTAKKU KSHANICHAPPOL (MALAYALAM TRAVELOGUE) BY ABHILASH TOMY

                            TITLE: KADAL OTTAKU KSHANICHAPPOL AUTHOR: Cdr. ABHILASH TOMY GENRE: MALAYALAM TRAVELOGUE                                     OVERVIEW : "Kadal ottakku kshanichappol" is a Malayalam travelogue of solo circumnavigation led by Abhilash Tomy, the lieutenant commander of the Indian Navy. Book portrays the exhilarating experiences of this risk-ridden journey.  The journey was a part of Indian Navy's "Sagar Parikrama project", an idea put forward by the retired commander Manohar Avatti. Sagar Parikrama-1 was the first voyage under this project. Cdr. Dilip Donde had designated for this, in which Abhilash Tomy was a companion. This travelogue is of Sagar Parikrama-2. He set up his sail in the yacht named INSV (Indian Navy Sailing Vessel) Madhei, which had built in India (Goa Aquarius Fibre Glass Company). Abhilash Tomy began his journey in Mumbai, from the Gateway of India on Nov 2012. He sailed through the