Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 81-88575-68-2 |
No of pages | 146 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | akkdkd |
Published Date | 31 Dec 2007 |
Preeti Shenoy, among the top five highest selling authors in India, is also on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities in India. Her work has been translated to many languages.
India Today has named her as being unique for being the only woman in the best-selling league. She has been awarded the ‘Indian of the Year’ award for 2017 by Brands Academy for her contribution to Literature. She has also received the Academia award for Business Excellence by the New Delhi Institute of Management. She has given talks in many premier educational institutions such as IITs and IIMs and corporate organisations like KPMG, Infosys and Accenture an. She is also an artist specialising in portraiture and illustrated journalling.
Her short stories and poetry have been published in various magazines such as Conde Nast and Verve.
She has a very popular blog and also writes a weekly column in The Financial Chronicle. She has a massive online following. Her other interests are travel, photography and yoga. Her books include A Hundred Little Flames, It’s All In The Planets, Why We Love The Way We Do, The Secret Wish List, The One You Cannot Have and many others.
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An anthology of some light-minded and heart-warming short stories, this book is a series of anecdotes that have been picked out from different facets of life, which most people tend to neglect in their busy schedules.
Written in humorous and engaging language, the book takes the reader through 34 real life incidents that revolve around various characters.
Each story has been given an interesting title such as feeling needed, mail exchange and the stranger, please hug me I'm just like you, my special friend, age miracles, and others. All the stories have a fun outlook even on some very serious issues about life.
In the fun, however, each story ends with an important life lesson drawn from some of the simplest things and experiences, leaving the reader thinking that joy can be found in little things around them.
While telling several interesting stories, most of them compare life to bubblegum’s and candies. Just as one keeps chewing bubblegum, even when it becomes tasteless, there are circumstances that people have to face daily and a point comes when the bubble might burst, leaving behind a sticky mess.
A candy has to be savored slowly and enjoyed, whereas a bubblegum must be relished. However, there may be times when a hard boiled candy might accidentally slip down and an individual has to tolerate the pain while the candy goes down the food pipe.
Like such uncertain experiences with bubblegum’s and candies, life is also quite unpredictable and one cannot predict what’s in store for him or her. Neither these confectioneries nor life comes with an instruction manual, and one has to bravely face all challenges and surprises that life throws at them.
Instead of cribbing all the time and waiting for huge surprises, one must learn to find happiness in small things that life offers is the essence of most of the life incidents narrated in this collection.