Book Review: Spiritual Anatomy: Meditation, Chakras by Daaji

In a world where only one thing is precious to a person, it is Happiness. Yes, in the materialistic world, Happiness, and eternal peace of mind are what we all long for in our lives. Today, we are sharing the book Spiritual Anatomy: Meditation, Chakras, and Journey to Meditation, authored by Daaji.

Who is this book for?

Have you ever felt the urge to stay calm?

Do you look for Happiness after a hectic day?

Do you quest for the means of peace through various channels?

If you answered all three questions with a big YES, then you are on the right page to delve into a book review of Spiritual Anatomy.

Book Review: Mom Says You Need to be Strong by Aditi Gupta

 A mother is the backbone of a child who teaches kids the valuable lessons of life. The role of a mother in raising the child is very crucial as the learnings she imparts to the child are ingrained deep in the child's mind.

Today, we bring you from our bookshelf "Mom Says You Need to Be Strong," which speaks about the lessons from a mother to her children irrespective of age. A teenager finds solace in a mom; a toddler needs the cuddle from the mom to feel safe, and youngsters search for answers for their indecisive minds in their mom. So, mom is there for all, irrespective of what age you grow. 

2024 Reading Challenge & Book Recommendations

Reading books is like a meal; our day continues unless we read a chapter or two. Last year, we read 40-plus books and reviewed 26 of them. This year, we are also taking up the Blogchatter TBR Challenge to document the number of books we read. 

What's different in Book Reviews at AuraOfThoughts

Exploring Genres

This year, we are focused on exploring more genres than our comfort and shall include Booker Prize, debut authors, and regional books. This challenge shall bring us closer to more perspectives.

Book Review - Unbroken by Indrani Mukerjea

If you believe in karma, then there is no place for fear, is what Indrani puts across in her book "Unbroken."

Book Review - Unbroken by Indrani Mukerjea

She was torn, betrayed, and accused but stood their firm, "Unbroken." The book Unbroken, The Untold Story by Indrani Mukerjea is about her journey, narrated in her own words.

Unbroken speaks about the life of Indrani Mukerjea, who was accused of murdering her daughter, Sheena Bora. This high-profile case has been buzzing the news channels for quite some time now. The book reflects some bitter truths about Indrani's high-profile life and how she stood unbroken throughout her troubled journey.

The cover: 

The cover portrays the intense face of Indrani, which puts across the message of the title "Unbroken."

Book Review - 'Chronicles Of The Lost Daughters' By Debarati Mukhopadhyay

There are many aspects of the past that are left unexplored or unspoken. In the book 'Chronicles Of Lost Daughters by Debarati Mukhopadhyay, the author focuses on some unknown tales from Bengal. Let's look at what this page-turner focuses on.

Book Review - 'Chronicles Of Lost Daughters' by Debarati Mukhopadhyay

Book Review : Good Intentions By Kasim Ali - Not just Love Story Book

Actions can lead to changes in life, and the intentions of a person can make him/her place never thought of. Intentions of a person are showcased through words and actions, let us see if the Good Intentions got on the right track.

Book Title & Book Cover: 

Good Intentions by Kasim Ali's book cover grabs attention instantly as the book title is written in bright colors. The caricature of the lead characters of the story finds its place on the cover.

Book Review : The Devil's Whispers by Lucas Hault

When one step towards mystery leads to another ,you are entering a world where any turn could be devilish or a step away from humanity.

Book Title & Book Cover:

The Devils Whispers by Lucas Hault will take you on a journey that is different, unseen and heart wrenching. The cover has a castle on a dark night day with eyes piercing from behind. The cover creates a mystic effect.

Plot Gerard Woodward visits the castle to meet Mr Mathers to process his will. But soon finds that he is locked up in the room and when tries to create a channel of freedom he starts feeling feeble besides missing his beloved Raleyn . Soon the unseen forces make things worse and things turn upside down. How Gerard escape route gives him more trouble to him and his loved one keeps readers at the nick of chair. Besides one mystery unfolds to find another one, each thread getting tangled in the story to make it complex as we move further.

Young Blood By Chandrima Das : 10 College Horror Tales

Book reviews have been one of the most important segments of our blog, and giving our commitment towards it we bring to you all the first book reviews of the year 2022.

Reading varied genres has been our conscious effort to increase our reading horizon, so we bring to you horror book reviews.

 

Book & Book Cover :

Young Blood, Ten terrifying college tales by Chandrima Das is a book in the horror genre. Book Cover has a title in the center in bold blood-red color with benches in the backdrop. Background color being greyish green gives a perfect start to read the book.

 Story plot:

Book has 10 ten tales based on college days, and the haunted places are visited by college students besides all the horror stories related to the college or hostel are created by the author in each chapter. The bizarre story that does around college can be a true event in today’s life. Sometimes students take a leap of faith and start venturing the haunted sites on their own, and that is when the trouble starts. Does each hunt be adventurous and fun or do students remember these incidents as the dark patch of their life? The page-turner book holds you with most of the stories.

Paranormal effect: 

The storyline has the paranormal activities mentioned with a smooth flow that makes the story spooky and takes you to the edge where a reader has to decide what is real and what is not.

Book Review Mystery Book : The Pandora’s box was left open

Pandora's box and the stories related to it always make a person curious to know more, the mythical story of the Pandora box is that a man left a box with her lady and she opened it out of curiosity, and then emotional and physical curses were released to mankind. This is an ancient Greek myth. The book titled ‘The Pandora’s box was left open’ by Dyumani Maheshwari made us also inquisitive to read the book. And we picked this at the #BookChatter at Blogchatter. So, let us see in detail the book fair at the curiosity level.

 

Book Title & Book Cover:

The title ‘The Pandora’s box was left open, Part 1st’ makes the reader incline towards the book, and being 1st part makes sure you have not missed any of the stories. The book cover has graphic images of detectives and their search for clues. With revolver and Mysterious file in the backdrop urges the reader to start the book and look for mysterious file talk.

 

Midnight's Star : Friends to Lovers Book by Shilpa Suraj

Love has no boundaries and it crosses every hurdle. 

This stands true in the book titled ‘Midnight’s Stars’ by Shilpa Suraj in the Blogchatter book review program, where we write an honest book review in exchange for the book.

Book Cover & Title:

The book cover has a dashing man with shades with a slight frown. So we come to know though he is rich there is some problem in his life. When readers read the blurb they get more connected with the cover as the leading man of the book ‘Dev Arya’ is posted on the cover and he is visually impaired. The title does justice to the storyline.

Homeopathic treatment for Common Diseases book by Dr. Surbhi Prapanna

Health is one factor in life which we have taken seriously in last two years and we all now understand its value in life. Being healthy and building immunity is everyone’s priority in the world today. In every day to day life, we face common diseases and there are many cures to them. Today we have a book that shares the homeopathic treatment of most of the common diseases and infections. “A2Z of Common Diseases and their Homeopathic treatment’ authored by Dr. Surbhi Prappana”.

Book Cover:

Book cover essays what to expect in the book, with three symptoms pictures at the top and homeopathic medicines in the bottom is perfect to showcase the disease and treatment of the same is present in the book.

Simple tricks to win your Subconscious mind by Geethica Mehra

Today we have in our pocket thoughtful life lessons by Geethica Mehra through her book, Simple tricks to win your subconscious mind.

Book Cover: 

The cover resonates well with the title of the book. It showcases a human brain enclosed in a bulb describing how one can light up the world around with positive thoughts.

Cinco of Shrav vs Sana by Suhasini: Children book with life lessons

Blogchatter EbookCarnival has released so many books in May 2021 and the great news to all the readers is that all of them are free for download. We have also downloaded several books and will be coming up with Book Reviews for most of them.

Today we are sharing a book review of the book Cinco of Shrav vs Sana by Suhasini, Shravmusings, the mother-son duo. We read the book titled ‘My friends from Mythological world’ of this duo earlier too which had many mythological character stories with life lessons and liked the child perspective in it. Let us see what this new book by this duo has to offer to us.

Book Cover & Book Title:

The cover has the main characters Shrav and Sana with their personality description that gives the reader glimpse about the characters. The title states ‘Cinco’ which means 5 in Spanish, so we have 5 stories of Shrav and Sana.

Book review : Zoravar journey from Dacoit to Film star

Reading books is the best way to divert oneself from the current situation, as it takes us to the world that has happiness. This book review is a part of the #BookChatter of Blogchatter and all the views expressed are honest, we received the book in exchange for the review.

Book title & Book cover:

Zoravar, the single name book title without any subtitle makes it sure to the reader that the book is about the character Zoravar and the story revolves around him. The picture of Zoravar with a background of a vintage car, tells the reader the book is set in the past. Simple and catchy font, which was used in the film titles around 60 years ago also hints the story will revolve around cinemas.

Book Review : The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison : Story of winning over Discrimination

The world cannot be changed in a day, it has to be done at each step day after day. The book The Bluest Eye shows us the path in similar manner. We are thankful to the Blogchatter team for sending us the winning copy in one of the contest of the BlogchatterWritFest. This is the honest review of the book and it is part of the Book review program #BookChatter of Blogchatter.

Book Title: 

The Bluest Eye

Book Cover: 

The cover is simple and not much revealing about what is the book about.

The Author: Toni Morrison 

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on 1993. She received National Book Critics Circle award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest Civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Her creations include Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love.

Death on The Nile by Agatha Christie: Murder Mystery Book

Reading a murder mystery can keep you awake for nights to know the next move in the book so is the book Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie published by HarperCollins. Let us explore all aspects of this book in this book review. 

About the author: Agatha Christie

I have not read many of the renowned author Agatha Christie book, and this year I have pledged myself to read the bestsellers, so this is the first in the year. Many already know about the famous author yet let me share few highlights about her.

Agatha Christie has penned more than 100 titles that includes Mystery books, Poitrot book series, Tommy & Tuppence, Memoirs, Plays & Stories. She was one of the best-selling authors whose words and plot were magical besides the detectives build the whole scenario so colorful. Born in 1890, her books speak volume of the changes the world was going through and till her health fall ill in 1973, she continued to write. 

After reading this book, I am surely going to pick few more books by this author and add in my collection as these books are treasure.

Confusion in Love : Unloved in Love by Rituparna Ghosh :Book Review

Today we have a book review of the book ‘Unloved in Love book by Rituparna Ghosh. This book review is a part of Blogchatter Book Review program. 

Book Cover: 

The cover is bright and builds the curiosity to dive into the journey of love. The guitar and the pet cat on the cover give the idea that they are somehow important to give the story a new turn.

About the Author: 

Rituparna Ghosh holds a diploma in Novel Writing from the London School of Journalism. She works as a Transformational Life Coach. She is an MBA from IIT Madras and has had a successful career in research and analytics for almost ten years.

Book Review : Along came a Spyder by Apeksha Rao

A story of a super spy teenager who is not afraid to dare anything which comes across her. This fiction series has in it all - the thrill, suspense, and action.  Let us see what more the book offers to the young and adult readers.

Book Title & Book Cover 

Along came a SPYDER

The cover of the book portrays the lead character of the book. The caricature has a striking resemblance to the author's facial features. Overall a simple, and bright cover gives an idea about what's inside the story.

The Spyder Plot: 

Samira Joshi, a 17-year-old teenager wants to pursue her career as a spy and dares to face any situation. Well, she has all this inherited from her grandmother and her parents. Her parents, Ranjit and Alka Joshi are uber-patriotic, smart, brave, and ruthless working as elite intelligence agents for RAW.

Samira had a very different upbringing, in childhood, she was asked to solve anagrams and numeric codes. By the time she was 5 she could speak eight different languages and was trained in counter-surveillance measures. She was provided with special Krav Maga training.

Book Review of YA book The Itsy Bitsy Spyder by Apeksha Rao

We all want to be in a profession which gives us excitement in life and what will happen when the job itself is thrilling. Let us have a look at the detailed book review of 'The Itsy Bitsy Spyder' by Apeksha Rao.

Book Title & Cover:  

The title of the book 'The Itsy Bitsy Spyder'  is on the lines of a famous nursery rhyme with a twist in word Spyder, which tells us that it is going to be a story about a spy.

The cover is very eye-catching with colorful caricatures of the lead character in the centre while all the other characters who influence the lead surround her.

Book Review : UNREAD, Platform for Artists

Today, we have an anthology book to review, which is titled ‘UNREAD’, 100 stories or poetries bundled up in a book summed up by Platform for Artists. Thanks Blogchatter for sending us the copy of this book, this review comes under Book Review Program of Blogchatter. Let’s see in detail whether this book held our attention or not.

About The Book:

Unread is a culmination of myriad author works in the form of poems and short stories which comprises 100 different emotions put together to present the readers a complete set of bouquet of emotions by Platform for Artists.

The poems or stories are very crisp and short each covering a single page. The title Unread portrays that the collection is not published anywhere else before being a part of this book and many of them are first time authors.