Neslin Reads: A Book Blog

TITLE: SHOPAHOLIC AND SISTER (SHOPAHOLIC SERIES #4) AUTHOR: SOPHIE KINSELLA GENRE: CHICK-LIT, SERIES. GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: What’s around-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong…the hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka…the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)… Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their loft, and the bills for them are outrageous. Luke insists Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky’s feeling rather blue—when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She’s convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They’ll go shopping together, have manicures together.…Until she meets Jessica f

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”  ―  Stephen King The percentage of readers continue declining every year. Technological innovations altered reading habits to an extent. Nowadays many modes exist to stay entertained, then why should we read books? People often ask me “Why you read this book, better watch the film. Books are boring.”I have no answer for this except tell them to read books because only a reader can understand the difference. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”  ―  Orhan Pamuk Reading will widen your mind space and helps to think more rationally. Whether fiction or non-fiction, books inevitably carries valuable life lessons. Reading helped me to accept people in the way they are and embrace their uniqueness. Individuality makes everyone unique and special. Moreover, it improves your perspective towards good-evil things. There are no right or wrong, what matters the way we perceive it. “I don't believe in the kind of magic in my b

TITLE: EXIT WEST AUTHOR: MOHSIN HAMID GENRE: FICTION, NOVEL GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for stargazing. This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it. Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope-a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination. MY REVIEW: “Exit West” is a love story of Nadia and Saeed, who forced to migrate from their homeland. More than a love story it deals with the refugee crisis, their mental conflicts, and western country’s attitude towards immigrants. The unique qualities of the book are th

TITLE: 1984 AUTHOR: GEORGE ORWELL GENRE: FICTION, DYSTOPIAN, NOVEL, SATIRE. GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, the chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts, they invented Room 101.  MY REVIEW: 1984 is Orwell’s dystopian novel published in the year 1949. It’s a satirical work that criticises the first world countries of that time. The story has been told from the perspective of the protagonist who lives in Oceania, ruled by Big Brother. People are always under surveillance, have

TITLE: INTO THE WATER AUTHOR: PAULA HAWKINS GENRE: FICTION, NOVEL, MYSTERY/THRILLER   GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped. And most of all she’s afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool. MY REVIEW: Into The Water is the second book from the best-selling author of “The Girl On The Train.” Again a thriller/mystery novel with a brilliant plot. The novel has told from the perspective of several characters, to be precise around eleven POVs. I think the author developed this many characters in order to induce more thrilling experience in the re

TITLE: THE WHITE TIGER AUTHOR: ARAVIND ADIGA GENRE: SATIRE, FICTION GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.  Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along.  Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pa

TITLE: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS AUTHOR: H.G WELLS GENRE: SCIENCE FICTION GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: With H.G. Wells’ other novels, The War of the Worlds was one of the first and greatest works of science fiction ever to be written. Even long before man had learned to fly, H.G. Wells wrote this story of the Martian attack on England. These unearthly creatures arrive in huge cylinders, from which they escape as soon as the metal is cool. The first falls near Woking and is regarded as a curiosity rather than a danger until the Martians climb out of it and kill many of the gaping crowd with a Heat-Ray. These unearthly creatures have heads four feet in diameter and colossal round bodies, and by manipulating two terrifying machines – the Handling Machine and the Fighting Machine – they are as versatile as humans and at the same time insuperable. They cause boundless destruction. The inhabitants of the Earth are powerless against them, and it looks as if the end of the Worl

TITLE: THE KITE RUNNER AUTHOR: KHALED HOSSEINI GENRE: LITERARY FICTION GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime."  Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashtuns. Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. Their uncommon bond is torn by Amir's choice to abandon his friend amidst the increasing ethnic, religious, and political tensions of the dying years of the Afghan monarchy, wrenching them far apart. But so strong is the bond between the two boys that Amir journeys back to a distant world, to try to right past wrongs against the only true friend he ever had. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process o