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BOOK REVIEW

Name of the book: Malgudi Days

Author :R.K.Narayan

Publisher: Indian Thought Publication:

Place:Chennai

Year of Publication: 1982 (46 Reprint 2013)

Page: 1-365p

Price: 125.00

ISBN NO.-978-81-85986-17-3/ACC.NO- 928

Issue Date: 25-02-2018 to 01-03-2018

Summary of Book:

"Malgudi Days" contains 32 collections of short stories written by R.K. Narayan. Each chapter portrays the author as a different person in a different profession with simple style and characteristics gentle irony portray the variety and colour of Indian Life. For example, Narayan takes on the role of an astrologer, a postman, a doctor, a blind beggar, a Brahmin, a man who faces down a man-eating tiger, a man who carves an image of God, and a boy who does not want to go to school. Narayan in his introduction says: I have named this volume MALGUDI DAYS in order to give it a plausibly geographical status.Narayan’s explain that Malgudi is a small town in south India and that is imaginary and not to be found on any map…

Each story is unique and touches some or the other part of our everyday life and as Narayan mentions in the beginning that the characters of Malgudi can be found anywhere in the world and the stories have universal appeal. Very few authors can capture the human emotions in such a beautiful way.

This book is one of best book of my life. I recommend this book to all readers. It’s a must read book and I am sure you‘ll enjoy.

About Author:

Narayan is one of the most widely known Indian authors writing in English, and is credited with bringing Indian literature to the rest of the world. In 1986 "Malgudi Days" and two of Narayan's other books were adapted as a television series that ran for 39 episodes on the Doordarshan broadcast network in India, each about 20 minutes long. The series was remade in 2004 and broadcast in 2006.

Biplav Kumar Nayak

(Librarian)

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BOOK REVIEW

Name of the book – “The 3 mistakes of my life “.

Author – Chetan bhagat .

Publisher and place –Published by rupa.co :New Delhi

Year of publication – 2008 .

Pages – 258

Price – Rs. 95:00

ISBN No. – 978-81-291-1372-6 .

Story mode – fiction

SUMMARY OF THE STORY

The story is based on a simple boy named govind who lived in ahmedabad (gujarat) and his friends omi and ishan. the story begins with chetan bhagat receiving an e-mail from govind who had taken many sleeping pills at a time and is about to die and was writing the e-mail to bhagat telling 3 mistakes of his life.chetan was very amazed by getting the e-mail , though he get many e-mails and letters but this e-mail made him amazed . govind was taken to a hospital in ahmedabad and fortunately , he was still alive to tell three mistakes of his life .

1. Govind sets up a sports shop near the temple with the help of omi’s family . the shop goes very well . govind wanted to buy a shop in navrangpur shopping mall . his friends was against him but he buys the shop in the mall . but the mall got destroyed due to 2001 earthquake in gujarat . govind had a great loss .

2. Ishan coaches young boys in cricket . there he meets a young boy ali . the boy was very talented as he hit each ball for a six .the boy got many offers from foreign also but he refused . omi’s bittoo mama a party man convert the young boys into fighters in the name of hindunism. though ali was muslim bittoo mama also wanted to kill ali but omi dies while saving ali .

3.      Govind teaches maths to ishan ‘s sister vidya who stole his heart.when ishan knows about it he got very angry on both of them and refused to forgive them , earliar .

         this lead govind to dead bed and writing this letter to bhagat .

the three mistakes of givind’s life –

1.      Govind had invested a huge amount of money on buying the shop in the mall but his friends was against him . the money goes in vain . as gujarat was hit by an earthquake in 2001. this was his first mistake .

2.      He couldn’t save ali because of his own selfishness and also lost his friend . this was his second mistake

3.      The third mistake made by him was he fall in love with ishan ‘s sister vidya , which ishan didn’t forgive earliar .

my opinion –

Honestly, i liked the story very much and i found the story very emotional .

the starting and the end of story was very good . Some parts of the story

seems to be very real while the story was fictional . we get many good

morals from the story specially from the 2^nd mistake . the climax part was

very good and was full of suspense. Overall, the story was very good .

NASRA AHMED IX B
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Book review

* Information :-

1.      Name of the book.     -   Hatimtai

2.      Author.                         -    Gopal Sharma

3.      Publisher and place. -     Manoj Publication ,761 main road Buradi, Delhi-110084

4.      Year of publication.   -      2010

5.      Page.                            -       176

6.      Price.                           -       Rs 80/-

7.      ISBN No.                     -      978-81-8133-435-0

8.       Issue Date.                 -    _        to.           _

summary :

The story is of Hatim who is very powerful, brave,generous and sympathetic. He helps everyone. He is courageous and daring. He helps people to eliminate their sufferings. He offers his beef to the tiger. He saves lives of baby wolves. He rescues deer from the paws of wolf. People and animal take benefits of his empathy and compassion. He puts his life in danger to simplify the hardship of a Syrian prince Munir. He makes seven journey to solve the seven questions of princess Hussan Bano bearing all kind of difficulties and risks.

* Opinion : -

I like the story very much. And I also added this book in my favorites. My favourite character is Hatim because he is very powerful, brave, generous and sympathetic and adventurous too.

My favourite part which I liked the most is finding the answers to the seven questions and all the magics which fascinated me.

* Suggestion : -

The picture should be more in this book and also be colourful Instead of black n white.

Shivam Bharti. (VIII 'A' , 23)

BOOK REVIEW

Name of the book: The Alchemist

Author: Paulo Coelho

Publisher: Harper Torch

Place: Brazil

Year of Publication: 1998

Page: 1-163p

Price: 169.00

Summary of Book:

O Alquimista, famously known as The Alchemist is a book of great philosophy. The story is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago sees a recurring dream and thinks of it as a prophetic one. He asks a Gypsy fortune teller about the meaning of this dream in a nearby town. The women interprets the dream and tells him that the dream indicates that he soon is going to find great treasure at the Egyptian pyramids.

Early into his journey, he meets an old king named Melchizedek, or the king of Salem, who tells him to sell his sheep, so as to travel to Egypt, and introduces the idea of a Personal Legend. Your Personal Legend "is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is."

He reaches Africa and meets a boy who claims that he would be able to take him to the Egyptian pyramids. But instead the man robs him of the money that he made by selling his sheeps. Santiago then starts working at a crystal merchant so as to make enough money to be able to reach the pyramids.

On the way, Santiago meets an Englishman who has came in search of an Alchemist and continues his journey with his new companion. The boy on the way then meets an Arabian girl names Fatima, and falls in love with her. Later on he also proposes a marriage. But she denies and tells him that she will only marry him after he had completed his journey. He gets frustrated at first but then he learns that true love not stops one from accomplishing their personal destiny but it supports them to pursue it.

The boy then meets a wise Alchemist who teaches him about finding his true self. Together they continue their journey and also come to face the warring tribes where the boy is forced to demonstrate his oneness with the soul of the world by turning himself into a simoom before he is allowed to continue his journey. When he starts digging in the sight of the pyramids, he is robbed yet again and this time he learns (SPOILER ALERT ) from the leader of the thieves that the treasure of his dreams laid in the same ruined church where he had first started his journey.

My Opinion:

Talking about my opinion, I loved the book. Being honest with this opinion I'd say that the book is worth a read. You must read this book.
This book let's you learn big lessons of your life with such a good plot. The characters in the book are wisely chosen. It teaches you about how different things the life has stored for you. All the things happening have a meaning behind them and in order to live your life to the fullest you need to learn the meanings. Maybe all these reasons sum up together to make this book a best seller.

Shradha Verma

(Class-X C)

BOOK REVIEW

Name of the book: A Brief History Of Time

Author: Stephen Hawking

Publisher: Bantum books

Place: New York

Year of Publication: 1988

Page: 1-256P

Price: Rs.399:00

Summary of Book:

The title of the story firstly attracted me to get the book. Its author Stephen William hawking was a prominent physicist , cosmologist and author of so many authentic books relating to space , time , big bang, black hole , etc.
Brief History Of Time is Stephen Hawking’s way of explaining the most complex concepts and ideas of physics, such as space, time, black holes, planets, stars and gravity to the average Joe, so that even you and I can better understand how our planet was created, where it came from, and where it’s going.
This book create keen interest in our mind for its contents about space , time , many secrets of universe like creation of members of celestial particles , origin and fate of the universe and expansion of the space .
When we think about all these contents of this book , we are conveyed to the infinite cosmos leaving our sitting place..

My Opinion:

I would like to suggest that you should get this book and experience the pleasure of reading about rare topics and give your brain a nice topic to think and imagine about the miracles of the universe.