Book Review: Dramatic Daydreams of Miss Sodabottleopenerwala by Tanvi Mayur Shah | Humour

Book Review

Dramatic Daydreams of

Miss Sodabottleopenerwala

by Tanvi Mayur Shah

Dramatic Daydreams of Miss Sodabottleopenerwala by Tanvi Mayur Shah

Author: Tanvi Mayur Shah

ISBN: 978-9389147421

Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Humour

Length: 159 Pages

Publisher: Self Published (1 August 2019)

My Ratings: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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About the author: 

Tanvi Mayur Shah is a 23-year-old girl who is an Engineering Graduate but her interests lie in storytelling, travelling and reading. Her love for books isn't genre-specific even though she has a keen fondness for reading detective stories. She wrote her first book- a teenage fiction- at age 15. Tanvi can be either found reading murder mysteries or watching chick flicks when she isn't writing poetries or satire. She is an animal lover and a staunch supporter of animal rights. A hopeless romantic at heart, Tanvi often likes to see life as an idyllic fairytale.

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Email: tanvishah389@gmail.com
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REVIEW

Narration

Dramatic Daydreams of Miss Sodabottleopenerwala is the most inspiring & entertaining book with a whimsical sense of humour I’ve ever read. The book is narrated in first-person point of view which helps clearly understanding the protagonist Kira Sodabottleopenerwala. The writing style is simply amazing, contemporary style, highly relatable and consistent throughout the book, be it humour or emotion. Each chapter is followed by a quote, some humorous phrases and some inspiring ones.

Theme

Dramatic Daydreams of Miss Sodabottleopenerwala has a lot in store for a reader, especially who are writers and teenagers. Thanks to the author Tanvi Mayur Shah, the story has many aspects, although the book being as short as this. There is friendship, teen curiosity, the dearest of relationship we have with our granny, authoring a book, social media and being genuine. And definitely more.

The story mostly revolves around these five characters: Kira with her friends Shireen, Mishti, June and Nanu (Jannat Sodabottleopenerwala) the grandma. Shireen, Mishti and June might have played the same role only, that of a bestie but their characters are clearly differentiable with their behavior and opinions. Whereas Nanu played a significant role as a lovely mentor, not formal at all. While the other girls are doing something to make their summer vacation count, Kira Sodabottleopenerwala decides to author a book. Kira is a person who really thinks she’s not good at doing anything substantial. In the process, she learns about the publishing industry and wishes for making it to bestseller. Ultimately she wishes for glory, dramatic, yes. She got it all but in an unexpected way.

Apart from that, with this creative piece of writing humour poured in here and there very soberly and classically, like it was authentic and relatable. The things we have done and funny ideas we have once thought of, intentionally or otherwise also. I won’t give away much but one example is ‘Wrinkle Khanna and Poha Ali Khan’.

"You don't need an idea. You just need some faith to begin working, some will to keep going and some enthusiasm to finish what you started."

My Views

First things first, Harry Potter and Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah references were there, now you can imagine how much relatable it can get. I was totally into the book, full of ideas. It was motivating and inspiring to such level that, the night I finished reading the book, I simply couldn’t sleep and was literally thinking and planning my new day. Also, it gave an account of basics of writing and publishing which is really helpful. At some instances, the author Tanvi Mayur Shah talks about environment protection and hypocrisy.

The book is as entertaining as any comedy-drama. It conveys a very important message that no matter how much hatred we humans contain but it can never overpower the love and support. In the end, Kira achieves the sense of decision making and we learn that being your genuine self to yourself and the world is the only way to go.

Happy Reading!

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Book Review: A Year of Wednesdays by Sonia bahl | Exceptionally Brilliant

Book Review

A Year of Wednesdays by Sonia Bahl

A Year of Wednesdays by Sonia Bahl

Author: Sonia Bahl

ISBN: 978-9388810654

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Length: 280 Pages

Publisher:  FingerprintPublishing (1 March 2019)

My Ratings: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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About the author:

Born and raised in Kolkata, Sonia has lived and worked in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Jakarta, Miami, Brussels, Johannesburg, and Singapore. With home being everywhere and nowhere, her belief in the power of the moment became a religion. An affirmation that unexpected and undeniable human connections are everything. Meanwhile, on the work front, she spent a huge chunk of her life, her days, and sleepless nights, in advertising—writing ads for all things from coffee and cars to condoms and candy—while dreaming of morphing 30-second commercials to full-length feature films. Not surprisingly, she threw caution, and her full-time job as creative director, to the winds and embarked on a riveting rejection-filled screenwriting journey in the US.

Finally her day job entails writing movies! In a recent, delightful plot twist, her debut novel, The Spectacular Miss, was optioned by a leading Bollywood studio and she was commissioned to write the screenplay. Sonia writes and re-writes in Singapore where she lives with her menagerie: gorgeous itinerant daughter, honorary proofreader husband, and her made-for-the-movies golden retriever, Ari Gold.

Sonia Bahl in conversation with HerStory

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Twitter Handle: @soniabahl
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REVIEW

A Year of Wednesdays is a work of Contemporary-Fiction, written with exceptional brilliancy and I’m not even exaggerating. The book felt more like an impromptu journey than a perfect plotted story. It’s a first-person point of view narration of two strangers connected through their first and only encounter. I found it wittiest that how these characters present their point of view to each other and even in their own minds. And oh, I can’t even describe how well the writing style is, like A++ minus─ (minus), eventually A+++. It is absolutely brilliant, the author Sonia Bahl enlightens us with insights on the planet & its population, climate change, lefties, a lot of movies and quotes.

"You should never have to tell someone how to love you."

The strangers are called Seat 7A and Seat 7B. Seat 7A is the cool Wall Street guy and Seat 7B is the mom-with-the-drool-stained-sweater-and-ordinary-aspirations. After the first encounter, they leave and continue to live their distinct and way too different lifestyles in New York. Seat 7A is a goal-oriented working in an oil-trading firm. Seat 7B works for a small nature fund, she’s a green warrior. Seat 7A has a girlfriend; Natasha is nothing-or-nobody-can-stand-between-me-and-my-career girl. Seat 7B is married to her love of life, Riz with two kids and one of them is a toddler. They have a pet also.

"Losing someone is always unfair."

A Year of Wednesdays, the collection of Wednesdays to look into their individual life and understand their perspective on life, whether it’s all about winning or the love and why is that? They might have left the flight, but not the memories of never-ending arguments. It’s like they are living in each other’s mind, still connected. Sonia Bahl has represented their lives in Wednesdays, through their daily struggles and for one reason or another happens to remember those arguments and defend their point of views.

"Imagine what a gift it is to have someone give you their full attention because they really do want to hear you."

One thing they don’t know is, what the other one’s going through currently in their life. The Wednesdays continue with its course, portraying moments of happiness, sorrow, fun, their life stories and never-ending thoughts. The major conflict of the book is capitalism and how that approach to the economy does not take into consideration the preserving of natural resources. The constant use of such economic system can result in depletion of natural resources and that we are living at the expense of our future generation. Anyways, Seat 7A does his job as demanded, enjoying the perks of being a trader and exaggerate the idea of saving the earth and there’s nothing wrong in what he is doing, supporting capitalism through oil trading firm. He would not understand the idea of pausing and reflecting back on life. Seat 7B is all about little moments of love, joy and kindness, she believes that if her boys learn and teaches kindness, her job is done. But we all know that nothing’s right or wrong. It always varies.

Towards the end, the author Sonia Bahl opens the secret doors to their lives, reveals their close-to-heart moments and the life stories, and explains what makes them who they are now. As the pages turn, the words seem to be touched by poignance. The feeling grows intense of confronting each other and putting the full stop to the never-ending arguments they’re having in the head. And that is what exactly happens.

"I can't decide if it's worse to carry the load of crazy sadness from losing a parent or the one that comes from knowing you'll never miss a parent you'll lose."

You would ask what all so good about A Year of Wednesdays, I will say ‘EVERYTHING’. As you start reading the book, you start laughing out loud. Like, the analogies and the comparisons the author has used are hilarious sometimes. Moving forward, you get used to the fun and joyful moments. A Year of Wednesdays is full of references─ quotes, movies, pop-culture and what not. Yes, Harry Potter is also a part of this, whose 39^th birthday was the last Wednesday of July. There are life-changing and life-saving insights that made me wonder only, how didn’t I know this before. That adorable couple parenting two little boys. With that, emotions take over you─ love, compassion, care and warmth. Then comes the feelings of sorrow and loss. But that humour, insights and arguments never fade away. In the end, the book leaves you filled with emotions yet numb. You get so used to with those impactful and captivating characters that you would not want to leave them because that means giving up those ever-lasting Wednesdays.

HAPPY READING WEDNESDAY!

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