Oh So Emo ! | Gayatri | Book Review

Oh So Emo! is a children’s book that can work wonders for people of every age group to help understand their complex emotions in simple words. The book starts with how some monks have to change their location due to Chinese soldiers entering in their homes to take over the area. Doji one of the monks is the youngest of them but holds wisdom of worth more than that and has a speaking bird named Sku to whom he has been sharing with all his teachings to part to the world when time comes. When the monks started walking towards a safer spot for them Doji asks Sku to go and look for his first student who needs his help to understand their emotions.


The stories in the book are woven around children who are unaware of the emotions they feel and how they are impacting them. The book not only holds stories but also dedicated pages for different emotions that one feels, the words we use to describe them, things one can do to not let it consume you and affirmations and space for the reader to pen down their thoughts too. Each emotion is well explained in simple words so that anyone who reads it understands that they are not as big as we make them. Emotions can be controlled or understood and can have a positive impact on our life if handled properly.

The book for me was full of impactful things said so simply that they didn’t seem that difficult. My major takeaway from the book is one does have to be in full control of their emotions but can still not let them overtake them if handle them in the right manner, we are humans and are tend to feel things and even overthink too but can’t change the things we have no control over but we can at least control how they impact us.

What a beautiful children’s book that cannot only be a good fit for all readers but also act as a guide to understand the emotions we tend to make very complex and let them overwhelm and consume us.

I recommend everyone to read this book, it might not answer all your questions but will obviously be of some help.

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MY RATING -4/5

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Twisted Tales and Turns | Smita Das Jain | Book Review

“Adults don’t allow children to make mistakes.”

Twisted Tales and Turns is a collection of short stories from various genres giving a  reader access to a lot of different stories around death, family, sci-fi, love, loss, self-love, specially abled people, neurological disorders, rethinking lives, pain, courage and what not. Smita has tried to include something for everyone’s taste. 

The book is divided into four parts- Out of This World, Not Too Far into the Future, All Doesn’t End Well and Love Comes in All Hues consisting of five stories each.  The writing style is different from her previous book A Price To Love. All the stories in the book have been written before for different writing contests. I liked the range of the stories. 

I connected to the book in different intervals. While some stories stirred something in me others made me move to the next one quick. My favourites are Top of the World, Till We Meet Again,Kaleidoscope, My Knight in White and Purchased Love. I wish there was a trigger warning for the first part of the book.  Yes, the author has mentioned in her note that this book is going to have some unexpected twists and turns but one never knows what can trigger a reader. I had to keep the book aside for days to be able to read after that part. I also felt that my connection with the book as a reader wavered at different places in the book. I also wished for some stories to be longer.

The book will leave you satisfied and with a smile. 

If you want to experience different genres in a single book, pick this book without a second thought.

MY RATING -3.5/5

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The Ex Factor | Harini Srinivasan | Book Review

The Ex Factor is the story of Oinks short for Oindrila, a Bengali girl, who loves to create more chaos in her head on top of the ones in her life. Everyone seems to seek her time and attention at the same time – from her parents , pets, boss to her cousin and best friend. Her life faces turbulence when Vivek, her long-time crush( Mr whose name should not be taken) makes an unexpected entry back into her life.

The writing style of the book is very simple and very casual. The language of the female MC would make you go ughh.. because she cusses a lot. To me it felt like the main characters in the book are not Oinks and Vivek but Oinks and her mind.

The storyline is predictable and failed to leave an impact on me. There were almost no to very little character descriptions as well as development. I failed to put a face to any of the characters even till the end of the book. While the blurb of the book feels exciting the book just keeps on growing dull. I’m a Punjabi and there are a few remarks that didn’t sit well with me.

The author has also tried to put in LGBTQIA+ representation in the book, I wish it was explored more.

It felt like the author was so annoyed by someone that they made them the female MC. She is mostly in her own head rather than in the real world which got very irritating for me as a reader after a point of time. I’m a sucker for good romances but this book didn’t work for me.

MY RATING- 3/5

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The Naani Diaries | Riva Razdan | Book Review

” Labels are necessary, my dear. Lovers need them especially to know exactly how important they are to each other.”

Imagine idolizing a love story life long and then discovering in your bachelors that it all had been fake, nothing but just a fairytale preview of the horror unfolded later. The Naani Diaries is the story of not just Radhika but her mother and grandmother too. Radhika has been idolizing her grandparents’ love story that she read in her grandmother ‘s diary from the summer she discovered it and has been wishing for a similar love story for herself too. But what she doesn’t know is that there are some pages from that diary that her grandmother, Gayatri has torned. She stopped writing in the diary after she realized her life was no longer a fairytale but her marriage was a mistake and she had married the wrong person. Unaware of it all Radhika visits Gayatri in Bombay to ask her help in getting her married before her 30th birthday after her relationship with Siddhant.

I really liked how the book is written, not only focused on Radhika but including her mother and grandmother too. The writing style is smooth and keeps you indulged in the story. My interest did dip in the middle when the story felt a bit stretched but to some extent that was necessary to cover scenes of all the characters. The characters are well thought and developed. I clearly saw Delhi Bombay people fued being covered perfectly. The moment Zain and Radhika were there at the club with Birdy and Gayatri it was my this is it moment and I was just rooting for them all along. I really liked how the author has tried to talk about each character’s pain and struggled past. This book is a full package for me.

The end left me wanting for more and I was like damn don’t end it at that point. Overall I really enjoyed reading the book.

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MY RATING – 4/5

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