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  When you find yourself hearing the protagonist say that she likes to kill bad men, you are then intrigued enough to listen to the book in a jiffy! Seraphine or Saffy for short has witnessed enough nonsense in her childhood and growing up years. She took up the responsibility to look after her little sister at all costs and keep her away from their pedophile step father. She was strong enough to handle him, but she was not going to let this man take away the innocence of a child. In a fit of anger, she ensures he would never raise his dirty eyes towards them again! Few other killings later, you are now probably rooting for her. Serves those bad fellas right for what they were doing.  We have now established that Saffy is a "robinhood" serial killer - finishing off people who just couldn't keep their hands off young girls. Definitely making the world a better place. Alongside her various plans, she has this indomitable crush on a podcaster/author. Now John Jonathan Desros

  I can't stop gushing about the Netflix series, adapted from this book. As I listened to the story unfold, so many scenes played along in my head.  Kate Mularkey - who has a name like that! Gawky, wants to be cool, hardly has friends, Kate one day, as fate would have it, meets her new neighbour Tallulah "Tully" Hart. Tully is everything that Kate is not. And Tully has nothing that Kate does.  The story spans three decades of this beautiful friendship and how Kate and Tully survive the growing up and life at large.  The series/audiobook makes you wish that you be blessed with a friendship like this one. That's all one needs to live through life's tough ways. Being the emotional person I am, I cried copious tears watching the show. The audiobook is my comfort pillow. Every scene that played out simple friendship - the escapades and adventures, desires & jealousy - reminded me of my growing up years.  I will let you in on a secret - in Grade 8 or 9, I was entang

  The Bletchley Women by Patricia Adrian has a historical premise. If you have read Kate Quinn's Rose Code or similar historical fiction, you will know the background of Bletchley Park. It was an outpost that was set up outside of London, working in complete secrecy of decrypting code and cracking the Enigma. A combination of unintelligible codes were produced by a machine had some messages encrypted within them. It was nearly impossible for anyone to break these codes. It is said that there were 159 quintillion combinations! The main task initially was to decrypt messages of the Luftwaffe [German air force] and few from the German army. You must read up all that is there on the internet about Bletchley Park and how these codes were so complicated and yet were broken. But, this book aimed at yet another angle. It is the story of Rose, Evie, Elinor, Lucy and Esther meeting at Bletchley Park as strangers and forming a friendship that would help them not only survive through difficult

  Even though I have been crocheting since childhood, I learnt a lot more in my adulthood and along with friends. I come from the 90's where, the internet still wasn't the mode of reference. We picked up our hobbies from mothers and grandmothers. I was no different. I was totally taken by the sheer feel of those doilies that my grandmother made free hand. She had simple ideas but the work was exemplary. My friends were better risk takers. I was crippled by the fact of ripping up a project. Ask any crafter and they will tell you that the worst feeling is ripping apart a project after finding a mistake or just not getting the instructions right. I just could not bring myself to do amigurumi. Until, I took a bold plunge. I cannot now look back! Amigurumi has flooded my life like nothing else could! So, when this book came up for review on NetGalley, I could not stay away from it. This colourful book has eight animal baby blankets and eight matching animal loveys. The book has beau

  The Tutor - Daniel Hurst Wow! Let me take a breather before I continue with a review! This is my first Daniel Hurst, after hoarding all his book on my Scribd/Kindle/Audible. And I can say I was not disappointed. Amy is quite fed up with her 16-year old son, who just won't study. He is not serious about his work or his upcoming GCSE's. I quite know the feeling for having gone through a similar situation!. Amy & her husband Nick are childhood sweethearts. They have a pretty happy marriage. He largely works from home. Amy & Nick also have a younger daughter, Bella, who seems to enjoy school and excel in it, unlike her older brother Michael. What with the exams coming in eight weeks, Amy & Nick are panicking about Michael's performance & grades. Amy, like any mother, felt that her son would probably do better if he got a little more personal attention from a private tutor. And it was only for eight weeks. They could pretty much afford it and it would be wis

#notfortbr #justfortimepass Just what my hashtag says - just time pass. I was in my reading slump as usual. Also battling the war of what to read. I jumped paragraphs and pages of No Strings Attached with no strings attached!  So this is a story of one good looking Rajput chap, Samar meeting this Indian-British Nina at their corporate obligations. Nina wants to be a writer and has her manuscript just about approved by her publisher. Samar's mom and aunt want him to join their family business and this photo journalist job is not their bread butter and thali.  The story is based out of Bangalore and couple of scenes in beautiful Coonoor - two of my favourite places and the only reason I read through the paragraphs that mention these two places. Bangalore is home and Ooty is where my crochet hobby took flight to become a more serious job.  Nina knows Samar's reputation of being a heart breaker and he would not even flinch post break up. But, obviously things are different when the