Abhijith Chandran (5053)

Never Coming Back By,Alison McGhee Leaving home is a contradiction in terms; we can never truly leave behind the place that shaped us, nor the people who played a part in our molding.Never Coming Back explores that most unbreakable bond forged at home, the bond between mother and daughter.In this emotional continuation of the story she began in Shadow Baby, Alison McGhee transports us back to the Northern woods of Sterns, New York, and the Winter women, Tamar and Clara. Clarahad escaped to Florida after college and lived there for years until Tamar’s recent erratic behavior is given a name—Alzheimer’s. Early onset. Not words anyone ever wants to hear, especially someone who feels the weight of words like Clara does. As her mother’s mind and thoughts shrink, Clara’s expandswith memory and feeling and unanswered questions.In Clara’s recollections, we see Tamar before her illness took hold: acerbic and guarded, burdened by life experience as well as the choices she made that she was unable to help her daughter understand. The precocious 11-year-old Clara inShadow Babyhas turned inward, defending herself against tragedy. Curious as a child, with a never-ending wellspring of wonderings, now-32-year-old Clara hides her deeper adult anguish behind well-chosen words, sarcastic “Jeopardy” references and a wire tattoo symbolically holding her together. Her anger at Tamar’s potential role in Clara’s breakup with Asa, her first love, fuels Clara’s initial interactions with her mother, until Clara slowly begins to see with a new perspective—someone else’s perspective, her mother’s perspective.McGhee’s own gift for words takes you to the very heart of this tense yet tender relationship. Through vivid and meandering dips into memory, McGhee draws us into Clara’s rapidly shifting thoughts as she tries to piece together previous assumptions with new discoveries. Encouraged by her friends and Tamar’s confidante, Annabelle, Clara learns more fully the true power of words, both spoken and heard. On this journey of return, Clara finds herself on the path toward redemption, acceptance and love. Abhijith Chandran 5053

Anish.K.S 5039 I Too Had A Love Story, I have read this book when I was in 11th class. It is written by Ravinder Singh. This book is his debut novel and is based on a true even that occurred in his life. The book is dedicated to the loving memory of the girl whom the author loved and could not marry. The story begins with a meaningful line 'not everyone in this world as the fate to cherish the full form of love, some are born to experience the abbreviation of it'. The story revolves around Ravinder (the author) and Khushi and describes the sweet and heart touching memories that they had spent together. This book plots the love story of Ravinder and Khushi. They both met Each Other through an online Matrimonial website. Actually they don't met each other other but they were connected through that site . They chatted each other and gradually through the conversations both of them fell deeply in love even though they had not yet met each other. There relationship extended to their families as well.Their wedding was fixed. But unfortunately Khushi met with an accident just a day before their engagement and took her last breath in the hospital bed. The author describes all events very beautifully and one can feel the feelings of the author by reading the book, nothing else can give the feeling unless you read the book . So I suggest this book as an absolute must-read for people who love love stories

ANJITHA K.S -5051 YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE (1984)

This book gave me the key to release all things negative. Enjoyed this book a lot. It hit some things for me that i needed to hear. They struck a chord with me anyway.
You Can Heal Your Life is the message of a person who has crawled out of victimhood, and this aspect of it has had enormous appeal, particularly to women with similar histories. The essence of Hay's teaching is love of the self and evaporation of guilt, a process that Hay believes not only makes us mentally free but physically healthy, as the study of psycho-immunology attests. Affirmations are vital in becoming the person we wish to be, and the book contains many to choose from. All the familiar self-help messages are given attention, including breaking free of limiting thoughts, replacing fear with faith, forgiveness, and understanding that thoughts really do create experiences. This book will not be for everyone. It is quite New Agey, fitting into the 'journey to wholeness' mould of writing that is now so common, but remember that Hay was a pioneer of it. For those who have read a number of self-development books, it may seem a bit simplistic and contain nothing new - it is certainly no intellectual undertaking to read it. On the other hand, it has a directness and enthusiasm that makes it stay in the mind, and intuitively makes sense.  In the true spirit of self-help, the book is not content to fix problems but to strip all authority from them. This outlook, which on first consideration seems naive, is in fact philosophically rigorous: dwell on your problems, and they become insurmountable; consider your possibilities, and they provide hope and motivation. Millions have had similarly difficult lives as Hay's, but not everyone has the will to leave their problems behind or even the knowledge that they can; deprivation forms the illusion that 'this is all there is'. Hay's insistence to herself that pain and setbacks would not define her, led her out of multiple psychological black holes. Her book has the credibility of the successful escapee. This book will change your life. This book more helpful a common sense guide to loving yourself... I am so thankful that Louise hay brought it into the world.” NICE BOOK”