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  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 enta...

  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...