Akshata's bookshelf: read en-US Fri, 04 Aug 2023 23:12:30 -0700 60 Akshata's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Alchemist 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Akshata 4 3.85 1988 The Alchemist
author: Paulo Coelho
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> बटाट्याची चाळ 12374910
The story focuses on the inhabitants of a tenement called Batatyachi Chal in Girgaon, which is a locality in the city of Mumbai. The families living there belong to the lower middle class, and the residents include music teachers, school teachers, clerks, and the likes. The humorous and poignant narrative laments the decline of this class of people.

A cultural movement, a musical show, songs for women, and some pages from the diaries of the residents are some interesting elements from the book, and Dwarakanath Gupte, Baba Barve, Kochrekar, Kashinath Nadkarni, Janoba Rege, Sammel Kaka, Kushabhau Akshikar, and Raghunana Soman are some of the main characters from Batatychi Chal.]]> 172 P.L. Deshpande 817486833X Akshata 5 4.31 1958 बटाट्याची चाळ
author: P.L. Deshpande
name: Akshata
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1958
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1)]]> 366522 A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.

Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers' hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women's fiction Cecelia Ahern.

Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed.

The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!

]]> 501 Cecelia Ahern 0786890754 Akshata 4 4.05 2004 P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1)
author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Akshata
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2004
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]]> The Forest of Enchantments 43293099
The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari. A powerful comment on duty, betrayal, infidelity and honour, it is also about women’s struggle to retain autonomy in a world that privileges men, as Chitra transforms an ancient story into a gripping, contemporary battle of wills.

While the Ramayana resonates even today, she makes it more relevant than ever, in the underlying questions in the novel: How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does a woman need to stand up and say, ‘Enough!’]]> 372 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 9353025982 Akshata 4 4.20 2019 The Forest of Enchantments
author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
name: Akshata
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
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]]> The Paper Menagerie 39803561 32 Ken Liu Akshata 5 4.58 2011 The Paper Menagerie
author: Ken Liu
name: Akshata
average rating: 4.58
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Akshata 4 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
author: John Green
name: Akshata
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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