Review: Chasing 33%

Chasing 33% by Jitendra Jain
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

[Note: I won this book in GoodReads GiveAway and this is my honest review of the book]

This is really a funny book if you can pass through the first 20 pages. The Story is very simple where a bunch of guys are appearing for their 10th board exam somewhere a remote place in Assam.

The story of the book revolves around the exam days and there is chapter for each subject and it has some incidents between the friends and talks about the protagonist's hate and love for certain subjects. finally the exam is over and the results are awaited.

What I liked most is, the protagonist, who is always full of wit and and always up to something. There are occasion I could not stop from laughing for minutes.

I rate this book very high 4/5 despite a bit slow beginning.





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Review: A Love Letter to Death

A Love Letter to Death by Nicko Shoid
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

[note : I won this book in GoodReads Giveaway and this is my honest review ]

Let's burn love with our ego. Our ashes would unite us. - from the book

This is the first book by the author Nicko Shoid. its a collection of poems. Poems have to connect with the readers otherwise it becomes worthless. it easier to understand a poem if recited by the poet or someone who understands it but equally difficult to understand from the written letters. but written letters have a different kind of beauty when you can have all together a different meaning what the poet originally thought of.

any way, this book by the author has a mix collection some of them I found with good message and with some of them I just could not connect.

A couple of poems Forbidden Mother and Lost childhood have raised some difficult questions to be answered by the society or the Govts.

The Author says the "Madness" is all over the world and then goes on to say that -


People are born wise,
age makes them mad.
They are born with tears,
with age comes sadness.

Madness makes people sad over the time.

In Brewery of Mortals he talks about how sorrow and old good times go hand in hand always together. in sorrow, you can always think about old good time and get some comfort in it -

The neat Gulp of sorrow burnt my voice.
Flashback of good times swirled with a flavour of rejoice.

There is one poem on Gulmohar which is quite interesting. the poem Dancing Quill has some profound lines where the author exhorts the Quill to Destroy everything that hides the truth and Keep dancing for someone innocent.

I have read these poems multiple times. it gave me a feeling that i didn't reading anything new barring some thought provoking lines here and there. The poem "Who am I" was bit disappointment, I could not figure out what the author is talking about in the quintet towards the end.
In the poem Birth of a poem one specific line put me off where he says - I wept burying my head in her breast . poets use indirect words instead of using such words. that is the beauty of the poetry.

Over all this collection was OK and I rate it 3/5.




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