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BOOK RECOMMENDATION : THE COURSE OF LOVE..

The Course of Love by Alain de Botton tracks the trajectory of the love affair from it's very beginning till it's end. It shows how Rabih and Kirsten fall in love, get married and set off on a journey where they believed all they need is love and eventually learnt that life just had different ideas.. , and how the dynamics of the relationship changes is being brought by touching upon following contents.. Romanticism .. Our understanding of love is being hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. we have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue... Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate. Ever After.. We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to

BOOK REVIEW: THE HUNDRED YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED...

The novel 'The Hundred year old man who climbed out of  the window and disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson is about the life of the hundred year old man Allan Karlsson. Allan Karlsson sitting quietly in his room in old people's home, waiting for the party he does not want to begin. Yes.., his one-hundredth birthday party which he is not interested to attend and so here he decides to escape.. Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flower bed, Allan makes his gateway.. and here he embarks on a hilarious, adventurous and entirely unexpected journey..                                        His escaping journey begins with stealing of a suitcase (a suit case full of cash)  followed by members of gang who are determined to retrieve the fortune from suitcase and along his way Allan befriends some people and together they attempt to deceive police who are searching for Allan. Meanwhile during these numerous escapades the story shifts back and forwar

FRIENDSHIP

FRIENDSHIP.... Sitting at the side of window pane, Gazing at the nature’s beauty and serenity around, That little princess contemplated hard over, What exactly friendship is? Is it a relation Wherein we make friends just to partner someone for a particular phase of life…, Or it’s a relation Which has this uncanny understanding that leaves behind a special feeling that lasts forever… Is it a relation Wherein friend’s help is to be kept note of and repaid, Or it’s a relation Wherein helping out friends is the prime duty which is just out of true love… Is it a relation Wherein we be friends with someone seeing at what standing they have.., Or it’s a relation Wherein all a person need to hunt for is a comforting equation with them… Is it a relation Wherein we are supposed to be good in front of our friends and criticize them behind their back…, Or it’s a relation Wherein we can share our things openly with our friends and accept them with