Neha's Notebook

  #1   INTRO & OVERVIEW Books are the paper-reels through which we can travel anywhere in the space-time universe.     All those who discover themselves to be book-lovers, will synchronize with how true this feeling is.   To read a book is to live so many lives, all at the same time.   To read books is not only a leisure activity but also an act of consuming and digesting various forms of energetic data – words and sounds, music and colours, poetry and passion, things like that.   There is one thing, that is reading. And then, there is another thing, that is, learning & memorizing data from what you’ve just read; as well as brainstorming creative ideas out of this data in your own style.   And one of the super-exciting ways to do so is through a book journal.   #2    DEFINITION: WHAT IS A BOOK JOURNAL?   Also called as a ‘reading notebook’ or a ‘reading diary’, a book journal is nothing but a notebook, or a set of documents dedicated for the purpos

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky My rating: 0 of 5 stars “For when we shall fall in love, we shall make each other our favourite mixtapes, and we shall gift each other our favourite books as presents wrapped in printed paper, and we shall smoke cigarettes perched on the hilltops of the countryside and we shall make each other our favourite milkshakes and we shall talk about things that matter to us, and we shall go on a ride through the tunnels listening to our favourite tunes, and we shall feel infinite…” These fancies and fracases of sweet sixteen years have been celestially cloaked inside the interior monologues of a school-going boy named Charlie, who appears in the book as the protagonist character, writing letters, thereby, bestowing the author to represent this stirring book in an epistolary format, creating magic with words, which has also found its extension in the form of a blockbuster movie titled the same as the book. “S

Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan My rating: 0 of 5 stars The sponge of my emotional mind is still soaked in the tipplings and blottos of its chocolate-box-style scenes and my belly is still pulsating in the babalaas of sentimental maudlins encased & perfectly tucked in this novel through the wrappings of word embellishments. I was recommended this book via a reading list provided to us in the creative writing class I was attending at SACAC, Hauz Khas. And I have read it twice till now. But the review is of the second time I have read it. Part rom-com, part suspense-thriller and all in all, a sweetly honey-dipped love story, “Those Pricey Thakur Girls” is written by Ms. Anuja Chauhan, who is the author who has also penned some of the record-breaking taglines for colas, chips & chocolates. As the Wikipedia also describes, she is the brain behind Pepsi’s “Oye Bubbly, Bubbly Oye” & “Yeh Dil Maange More” jingles, Kurkure’s “Tedha Hai

There was once a buffalo.   It fell into a puddle of purple colour liquid and thus, turned into a purple buffalo.   Thereupon, the buffalo steps into a brookside and splashes water on itself, thereby, washing away the purple colour off its body and returning to its original state.   If you look at all the scenarios of this story, you’d realize that here there are mainly five elements in function.   #1   The Buffalo before falling in the puddle, the one with the original color #2  The Buffalo after falling in the puddle and getting coloured in a false color #3 The Puddle of Purple Color Liquid #4  The Force of Nature Causing The Buffalo To First Fall In the Puddle and then to get the puddle color washed off it by brook’s water #5 The Watcher or the Observer of all the three states of Buffalo’s life   Now, this story is not really about some buffalo, but the very reality of our human life.   If you’d look at the story through a magnifying glass, then