Cherry's World: August 2023

Thursday, August 24, 2023

BOOK REVIEW: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL - A PERFECT COMPANION FOR THE PURSUIT OF PEACE

My Rating: 5 of 5 stars *****

We get to hear more and more about the term 'stress' and about the people getting affected by it. Beating stress and harvesting peace requires tremendous mental strength and self confidence and this is exactly what the book 'Life is Beautiful' helps us with.

Author Meena Menezes has beautifully carved out this book with inspiring stories and quotations that help us in our path of resilience towards a stress free and peaceful life.

I loved the way the chapters have been sized correctly for a very relaxed reading. Some of the sentences in many chapters have been constructed with power packed in them and that certainly helps the reader to revive and move up and forward from the troughs of life. There are many lessons that lie deep inside this book for our taking.

Meena has used very simple language and the book is for everyone regardless of age or stage of life. It boosts our confidence to pursue tranquility in our life.

My best wishes for all her writing endeavours.

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Poetry book 'INDELIBLE ETERNAL ETCHINGS':

https://www.amazon.in/INDELIBLE-ETERNAL-ETCHINGS-emotions-unbridled-ebook/dp/B072J4L656/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=indelible+eternal+etchings&qid=1583428166&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/INDELIBLE-ETERNAL-ETCHINGS-emotions-unbridled-ebook/dp/B072J4L656/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=indelible+eternal+etchings&qid=1583428402&sr=8-1

STORIES

Short Story book 'A PEARL FROM EVERY OYSTER':

https://notionpress.com/read/a-pearl-from-every-oyster

https://www.amazon.in/Pearl-Every-Oyster-Stories-Shorter/dp/1948473151/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GI23X9JIKQGK&keywords=a+pearl+from+every+oyster&qid=1583428674&sprefix=A+Pearl+from%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Pearl-Every-Oyster-Stories-Shorter-ebook/dp/B07948GRVC/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H9GU3Q8JNH29&keywords=a+pearl+from+every+oyster&qid=1583428722&sprefix=a+pearl+from+ev%2Caps%2C363&sr=8-1

For other countries, please visit the respective Amazon sites.

Thursday, August 17, 2023

BOOK REVIEW: M IS FOR MOTHER - AN UPLIFTING READ

My Rating: 5 of 5 stars *****

'M is for Mother' is a honest and refreshing outpour of the author's journey of motherhood from pre conception to post birth. The author Alexandra Antipa takes us through the ups and downs and the highs and lows we all have to embrace.

This book has been a serendipity for me. I had communicated to Alexandra that I am a slow reader and I think with that pace of reading, the book saw me move through some unexpected turbulent phases as a parent and by the time I finished it, I had entered into a state of calmness. During these tumultuous days, I had constantly been reading the book even though it was at snail's pace and I could feel the book talking to me.

My book copy is replete with many highlights that I have made where I loved the way the author has crafted the sentences, the way she has managed the emotional outpours as beautiful literary embellishments, the courage she has put up to stand apart from the crowd while standing up for what she thought was right based on raw convictions, even when it could never get her approvals from her own blood. The author truly deserves praise for these. I will be revisiting these highlights to relish the experience again.

In particular the courage and conviction to reexamine the author's relationship with her own mother and to not follow her parent's footsteps, but to make her own road that is relevant for her child, is commendable. The silent ownership she takes as a mother is loud all over the book.

As a father, I could appreciate the journey of a woman in much more depth and that way the respect for my mother and my wife has multiplied. Alexandra dissects the concept of sacrifice and beautifully positions motherhood in relation to it. I loved the realism she has naturally spiced up the book with in multiple places, through the raw portrayal of the vulnerability of being imperfect and how it's perfectly fine to be so.

Her journey almost touches on a dichotomy at places when on one side she goes all out to give everything for her daughter as a mother and at the same time she is hit with random realizations of her own journey of life as an individual, what she yearns for, what all she believes have been lost into the oblivion forever and then how beautifully she comes to terms with these to move forward as a human.

I highly recommend this book for those who are about to wear the hat of a parent and for new parents. Best wishes Alexandra!!

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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

THE SCENT OF WAR AND THE SCENT OF FLOWERS

@Luton War Memorial, London.

Soldiers rarely have a bed of flowers 🌹to recline and enjoy and in dying for us, they share with us their bed of flowers🍁.

The scent of war and the scent of flowers are two extremes and it's often only through the latter, that we are attracted to a memorial.

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Thursday, August 3, 2023

A DENTED EGO

@Wardown Park, Luton, London.

The sun re-emerging in full cry after a dented ego, due to a sudden downpour of rain while the sun was yet blazing.

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