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Summer heat and drizzle, scorching, sticky existing summer and welcoming monsoon, June is a fusion of emotions and abandonment. Expressions released in the droplets, world is soothing in the shadow of grey clouds or is just a beginning of gloomy alleys, sad grey days are starting to hang around us slowly. What ever you want to feel you can find in this month. Paint this month with the color of your thoughts.
So I painted this month with a message of fusion. Why not make it a fusion book list for this month.
From My Heart to Yours: a father’s love letters to his daughter
Genre – Nonfiction / Introspective commentary
Rating – 4 / 5
It washed me with a rain of emotions, deeply engraved a father’s love will plunge into you and make you unrest, you will be compelled to finish it with moist eyes.
With the natural narrative of a father, it’s a heartwarming Introspective commentary that will enter in your heart and stayed for a long time. You won’t be able to get out of the book. Authors urge to tell his life story to his daughter will create a stinging sensation and every reader can find the stir of emotion inside their own heart.
The way it unfolds is like eighteen letters, a father’s unbroken promise of love. This novel chronicles the emotional journey of a father who was forced to separate from his beloved daughter. He expressed his feelings of sorrow through 18 letters that he wrote to her. It is a poignant tale of how her absence has caused him immense pain and grief. The narrator comes to the realization that this longing for his daughter will never truly dissipate, even until the end of his life. However, he is determined to find ways to cope with this reality. Through this narrative, readers are given insight into the heart of a father who desperately holds on to hope for a future reunion with his daughter. While the story is told from the perspective of a man whose child has been taken from him, it will strike a chord with all fathers who can relate to the strong desire to be reunited with their children. He eagerly awaits the day when his daughter is old enough to read and comprehend this book’s emotional weight. At just three years and twenty-two days old now, he knows that it will hold a special place in her life as she grows up.
From a young, gentleman, to a caring husband, all the challenges emotional and careerwise depicted seamlessly and tell us a lot about Asif’s life and how he was rooted in his world, his family.
Silent Draft Echoes
Silent Draft Echoes by Shereen Christina is a huge collection of poems. This book is loaded with 101 poems that tries to portray emotional terrains, unfolded the beauty of nature and try to connect human emotions with natural beauty.
With her poetry Shereen delves deeper into eccentric feelings of confusion, sorrow, longing and calmness which reflects her profound conversation with solitude, her soul and enormous amount of questioning that want to understand this world makes me ponder over the author more than the book. I feel like I am more intrigued by the person who has such a curious heart that gave birth to these poems, I feel it’s an endless journey to decipher nature and author just started the voyage of discovery.
Coming to the poems, some poems feels repeated, words feels short while capturing the essence of emotions expression needs more craftsmanship, and I am astonished by author’s writing spirit, the abundance of happiness that author feel while writing is perfectly conveyed through each page. The book is very beautifully structured with sketches and poetries.
For me it’s 3/5
Hot Water
Bhavika Govil stepped into the literature world with a refreshing perspective, honesty and warmth, Hot Water is a refreshing, brilliant approach I haven’t read such books for a long time.
How often do we get a chance to see this world through kid’s eyes? Hot water magnificently portrayed a dysfunctional family through the eyes of two kids. We didn’t realise that kids can see more than us, kids can observe more than us, kids know people more than us through their unfiltered eyes.
Also we got a parallel narrative of their mother which has been equally important and has a deep and mystic psychological aspects. I loved how deeply it narrates human psychology with profound yet gripping style.
This book will create a deep gash in your heart when you finish it. Read it when you feel quiet because it has a voice that needs to be heard honestly..
Rating 5/5
The Wrong Sister
Some thriller books are more than thriller, they give more than sensational wriggle, it’s like a large canvas that slowly unveiling a detailed painting of human emotions, how their world crumpled inside, a picture of emotional vulnerability and telling us how delicate our bravest face is.
So, this is my second book of Claire Douglas and I am now sure that she explores our emotional terrains, unfolded something deeply humane in a wrap of a thriller.
In my last book I saw her excavating layers, and complexities of the mother daughter relationship and in this book she cleverly creates a situation where layman can understand “we would do anything for the ones we love” . Sometimes it looks like ignorance, sometimes it is very ordinary information which we think might not be worthy to worry about but it affects the whole life.
This book feels more like a literary fiction than a thriller because of the calm, compassionate soft voice and this is why I loved her writing and kudos, without losing any suspense element the book stretched to 375 pages, amazing accomplishment.
Tasha and sister Alice look alike, but couldn’t be more different. Tasha’s married with kids, settled near their home town of Bristol. While Alice travels the world with her husband. Yet each trusts the other with her life.
So when Tasha wants a break, Alice offers to stay in her home with the kids, so her sister can have a holiday. Tasha knows they’re in safe hands. She couldn’t be more wrong. The call sends Tasha rushing home. Alice is in intensive care. Her husband is dead. The police are hunting for suspects and motives. But Tasha can’t think why anyone would hurt her sister. Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha: It was supposed to be you.
It’s mind blowing sharp, kept me guessing till the end. The plot is settled with a very unique mystery and urge me to search for more scientific knowledge, I ended up reading quite a few articles on internet. I love those books that serve information in its plot.
Rating – 5/5
Queer Chronicles
A clot of pain appeared in the throat while reading this, heartfelt and heartbreaking, choking consciousness, author made a conversation with readers with utmost love, tender honesty.
With gender pronouns and rainbow flags, are the days of suffering and ostracization behind the trans and intersex community? Why is LGBTQ a single category then, where sexual preference is forcefully coalesced with gender? Is gender determined by birth or is it a choice? What about sexuality? In a world where some fear we’re moving too fast and others know it’s not fast enough, these questions are knocking on car windows, louder and louder. Queer Chronicles explores the evolving landscape of gender identity and sexual orientation, delving deep into the complexities of the LGBTQ+ experience.
From parenthood to persecution, across and in between the lines, this hard-hitting collection explores gender and sexuality with raw honesty and vulnerability—giving voice to the multifaceted and often misunderstood experiences of its queer protagonists.
This book is a powerful collection of short stories, it ignites a movement without any loud words, reverberating unsaid uneasiness with a searing pain which is asking for identification.
Rating 4/5
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