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  THE HAPPY PRINCE  AND OTHER STORIES Oscar Wilde     Vacation time means book time for me and this collection of stories was a delight to me. While 2 of the stories :  Happy Prince  and The Selfish Giant   were already known to me the others were truly great .       For  example, In the story The Nightangle and the Rose, it showed the stupidity of love and to how far extants boys go to please lovers. On one part, I found the story quiet funny with the words of the scholar's lover and on the other hand it showed the touching action of the nightiangle in helping the boy please his love.     In another story, The Remarkable Rocket, It revolves around an arrogant rocket who always boasts about himself and tries to boss the people around.      The last story, Canterville Chase is a truly remarkable one and was my favourite. Its funny and also heart touching at the same time. But this one ghost story is very different from other ghost stories.I may not be able to express this myself, bu

                 KASHMIR !                            KASHMIR !     Deepa Aggarwal       As vacations are almost over, Everyone may have been ecstasic on going on trip or relaxing down at their home with something to read or even go to play with their friends. Me, myself back from a trip to Srinagar was both joyful and tired, both at the same time.       After my trip there, The thoughts that filled my mind of  this book that lay in my home was of stories of beautiful sceneries and all but as soon as I started reading, I realized it was not the case.  The first story in the short story collection, for example, was about a girl who loved runing and how this talent of hers helped save he neighbour, an apple trader, save his lives from the death in the hands of militants.       People there, fear of both the military forces of India and also the militants, which I myself felt on the trip there. They feel themeselves like an independent state. They consider Indians like from another countr

  A Sky Ship Adventure Hey!! Check out its video version      So, two days ago I finished reading this awesome book "  Brightstorm : A sky ship adventure " and  to say the truth it was amazing. So let's jump into this amazing adventure book!!     So, this is an adventure, sci-fi book by our dear children's author Vashti Hardy. Brightstorm: A sky ship adventure is the first in the Brightstorm series which has three books in it. The second aand third being Darkwhispers and Firesong.  The story is about the Brightstorm twins whose father has died in a supposed wolf attack in an expedition to South Polaris, the southernmost point that any human has reached in the Wide. But a small clue leads them to not believing on what they have been told and even leads into them taking a journey to the South Pollaris. The story is quite adventurous and exciting as it goes through. The situation of being betrayed is clearly given in this book.

  WHISPERS IN THE CLASSROOM VOICES ON THE FIELD Stories of school, friends and life      Just yesterday, I finished reading this book, " Whispers in the classroom,Voices on the field : Stories of school, friends and life"which I recently bought at the book fair. It was a story compilation of many authors, on the above topic, edited by Richa Jha, who herself has contributed a story, and illustrated by Priya Kurien.      The book has brought forward 31 contemporary Indian writers, all giving their share of school life. I have many favorites in this book. Many of these stories really seem familiar to me and many of the characters in the different stories can also be related to many of my classmates and schoolmates. The most fun of these were A Disobedient Girl,Warp Speed, Music to my ears,Babysitting Week, The reunion, The Invitation, The Flag fiasco, The Ugly Duckling, Midnight feast, End game and Comeback. I especially liked the warp speed because of the brother-sister love in

The Great Antagonist      Today, I am going to compare 3 antagonists from 3 different books. And they are :Nicollo Machiaveeli and John Dee, both from “The secrets of the immortal Nicholas  Flamel" series and Voldemort from The "Harry Potter" series.      Let’s start with John Dee.John Dee has been an enemy of Nicholas and    Perenelle Flamel since their time in the Sixteenth Century. He had always chased them to get the Codex for his masters, Isis and Osiris, but he didn't get it until they had finally found the legendary twins, Josh and Sophie Newman, they had searched for all the time.Working together with Niccolò Machiavelli he succeeded in bringing Josh on his side, but after being declared "utalga", he turned against his masters. He, from my point of view, is a cunning man, who can perceive people, to think in a way in which he seems good to them.     Now comes Niccolo Machiavelli.In this book, he's shown as an equally powerful magician to Dr. Joh

  Book Review: Half the Field is mine Swati Sengupta      “Half the Field is Mine” by Swati Sengupta would be the perfect book for the sports and football loving girls  who dream of becoming a football star one day. I recently bought this book at the 31 st edition of the New Delhi World Book Fair. The book is a coming of age story. The story revolves around the friendship of Oli and her domestic work’s daughter, Champa, and their love for football. Nothing can come between Oli, Champa and Football until they reach the threshold of adolescence. The boys of their neighborhood, whom they play  football with, decide that they can’t play on their team Patuli Superman renamed Patuli Men's Team.  The girls who are not ready to face this go through major events in their life in the following days. And in between all this  Champa goes missing. What has happened to Champa? Has she been kidnapped? Was it because of those boys? There are many questions that pop up in Oli’s head.  The book hi

  5 REASONS TO READ THE SECRETS OF THE IMMORTAL NICHOLAS FLAMEL The First Book in The Series 1.  It is very exciting   - The series is quiet adventurous. It's about the twins Sophie and Josh whose normal lives with jobs at coffee shop and a book shop get entangled with magical problems and when theey end up in between the fight of the dark lords and the immortals(virtuous immortals as some immortals are also the servants of  some lords). 2.  Like another Harry Potter series   - The series unfolds like another Harry Potter series and is filled with the same essence of adventure, fear and mystery. 3.  Best for Harry Potter fans   - As I said before that it's like another Harry Potter series, It would be another favourite series for those Harry Potter fans out there.  4.  Explains a lot about many mythical creatures   -  Yes, This book may uncover many unsual names that you may have neve ever heard of. It conatains the most cruel and gruesome creatures inside it's pages. 5.  V