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My 1st @therealmargaretatwood & i am soooo excited!!
 This tiny little beauty by @bloomsburypublishing caught me by surprise!

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#qotd Have you read from the author’s work? If yes, which is your fav.?

 The “Bloomsbury Birthday Quids” are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the “Bloomsbury Classics”.
Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors’ items.

 This book is around 50 pages but is a piece of work which needs to be read at a calm pace, devouring every bit of it.
Its paperback but the pages are pretty thick.

 Although one may find the beginning a bit unsettling but THE END LEAVES ONE EMOTIONAL..
old age..aging parents.. old age diseases & discomforts..memory loss..failing body..ample time to pass..bewildered spouse finding it difficult to cope up with all of this..& almost helpless, busy children. Plus there’s a story within this story..

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Have you ever wondered how lonely our aging parents can be?

 About The Author:
MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in over forty countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now a successful MGM-Hulu television series currently preparing its fourth season, her novels include Cat’s Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; The Penelopiad; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-seed; and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, published in September, 2019. She lives in Toronto some of the time.

 The story related within this story maybe found in its original version,
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild
by
Dillon Wallace, published in 1905.

 I got this collector’s item from @book.chor .

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#readwithharpercollins CANCER is now the 4th leading cause of death in India. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO LOWER YOUR RISK?

FOOD MATTERS by Dr. Shubham Pant.
The Role Your Diet Plays In The Fight Against Cancer.

💢 Personal Experience:
My mil was the fittest in our family, that’s what I thought until she got diagnosed with breast cancer. It came as a shock and we stumbled to deal with it. She went ahead for the treatment with medications & surgery & we thought finally its over.
But..
Around 1.5 years later, it resurfaced & she again had to go for surgery & medications & even chemo this time. Although we were better prepared w.r.t the know- how now but still it was a shock.
Thereafter, it was a emotionally, physically & mentally draining process. She is a bold woman & faced everything with utmost valour & grace.
From hairloss to loss of muscle mass, to lethargy & no taste in mouth, to constipation & diarrhea..it is a tedious process.
Eventually she is returning to normal life with;
– proper nutritious diet,
– small & frequent meals,
– proper rest
&
– exercise like daily walks.

💢 The reason why I am sharing all this is, because I felt the book talks exactly what we went through & more.
Everyone doesnot need to go through it to learn.
PREVENTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN CURE. Although the exact cause if cancer cannot be ascertained but it is assumed to be a lifestyle disease.


📕 HOW DOES THIS BOOK HELP?
This book is written by Dr. Shubham Pant who is well versed with this field.
He focuses on some mundane sol.ns to PREVENT cancer. He explains the link between diet & cancer & also provides some easy recipes to inculcate in our diet.

This ~ 200 pg book is divided into 3 broad parts;
1 Diet & Cancer Prevention.
2 Eating Healthy during Cancer Therapy.
3 Surviving Cancer.
The before, during & after of cancer care.

💢 genre: health/ non- fiction.
It adds great value, has insights from real life experiences, easy language, simple changes which we can make in our diet & lifestyle, gives data & stats plus busts some myths like superfoods & forwards/ messages which go viral w/out proper authentication about cancer/ diet & much more.

💢 Worth your time 4.5/5.

In Food Matters: The Role Your Diet Plays in the Fight Against Cancer, Dr Shubham Pant asks you to ‘focus on the mundane solutions’. Oncologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, he recommends eating a good diet, staying a healthy weight and other lifestyle interventions to keep cancer at bay. Citing case studies, Dr Pant also suggests how patients diagnosed with and recovering from cancer can best manage their nutritional needs.

Intensively researched and featuring simple and delicious recipes, Food Matters tells you everything that you need to know about cancer and diet.

About the Author

Dr Shubham Pant is a professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

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Pre order! Coming 11th May 2021 !!

Genre: Domestic Thriller.

FINDING TESSA by @jaimelynnhendricksauthor
320 pages, 40 chapters.

Finallllly a thriller giving goosebumps & shocks with its twist & turns at every nook & corner
+
few important life lessons.

LOVE. Love is such a strong emotion & the most abused & misinterpreted one too.
We keep on looking outside for it, when the 1st place we need to look for it, is inside, within ourselves.

The same happens with Tessa. Tessa Smyth. She kept on looking for someone to love her & all she got was, abusive relationships..a bunch of exs & a few aborted pregnancies.

When she finally, feels, she is home & settles down with Jace Montgomery..who sees the little girl in her..who promises to protect her whatsoever..they get together & start living the newly wed, happy life..

But then Tessa feels, she has again been abused & cheated & this time she decides to teach this man, a lesson by going away voluntarily but leaving clues for the police who may nab Jace for alleged crime on Tessa.

💢 BUT 💢

Will things turn out, as planned by Tessa?
Are her assumptions & thoughts correct?
Where will she land herself & her unborn baby now?
What about her past relationships? Are they going to ghost her sometime soon?? Who will help, protect her then?
How will the story end? Can it have a hea??

Read it to know! Pre Order Now!
________

🌸 Can we runaway from our past?
Do our past relationships & experiences, affect out present & future ones??
_________

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A woman disappears and frames her husband for her murder—but she soon learns the past isn’t so easily left behind


Jace and Tessa appear to be a young couple in love with nothing to hide. But looks can be deceiving.

When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There’s broken glass at the back door. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when a coworker he’s accused of having an affair with also disappears and a search warrant turns up an illegal gun in Jace’s home, all signs point to him as the culprit. What is he really hiding?


Meanwhile, Tessa finally feels safe, having set up her husband to take the fall for her disappearance—and someone close to him is helping her put him away. Breaking her lifelong pattern of bad men is only one hurdle she has to overcome. The other is outrunning her secret past while trying to stay alive, especially when those in her new life aren’t who they appear to be.


Jace’s lies don’t add up and the authorities are closing in. Will Tessa’s old life catch up to her and drag her back to a life of abuse before justice is served? 


Finding Tessa is a smart domestic thriller where nothing can be taken at face value, where every twist reveals a deadlier secret than the one before. Fans of Gillian Flynn, Samantha Downing, and incisive, fresh psychological suspense won’t want to miss it. 

Review

Finding Tessa has all the elements of the best type of thriller—characters that are at once empathetic and suspect, a riveting pace, and a plot that unravels in one clever twist after another. Just when I thought I’d figured out what was happening, Hendricks delivered an unexpected turn that left me back at square one and frantically turning pages until the final scene. Readers of Samantha Downing and Gillian Flynn won’t want to miss Hendricks’ compelling debut.
—Danielle Girard, bestselling author of White Out, Blurb

A dark tale of abuse, revenge and redemption, full of head-spinning, mind-boggling, Gone Girl-sized twists.—Michele Campbell, internationally bestselling author

About the Author

Jaime Lynn Hendricks is an author with nearly 20 years experience in print media and marketing. Finding Tessa is her first novel. She lives with her husband in New Jersey.

My 2nd read from the author’s work.
His 1st Sci- Fi.
I AM SO EXCITED!!

Pre- Order. Releases 16th March 2021.

ORANGE CITY by @leematthewgoldberg
1st book in the Series.
231 pages.

🦉 Did you find the “title” &/ or the “cover” very peculiar or different or unique??
Did it remind you of an orange soda drink?
Was it able to catch your attention/ eye?

🍊 Imagine a secret, hidden city that gives a second chance at life for those selected to come: felons, deformed outcasts, those on the fringe of the Outside World.
Everyone gets a job, a place to live; but you are bound to the city forever.
You can never leave. 

Its citizens are ruled by a monstrous figure called the “Man” who resembles a giant demented spider from the lifelike robotic limbs attached to his body.
Everyone follows the man blindly, working hard to make their Promised Land stronger, too scared to defy him and be discarded to the Empty Zones.

After ten years as an advertising executive, Graham Weatherend receives an order to test a new client, Pow! Sodas.
After one sip of the orange flavor, he becomes addicted, the sodas causing wild mood swings that finally wake him up to the prison he calls reality. 

🍊 An atmospheric read creating a dystopian world which has the ability to scare me to bits..
This sci-fi story was so engaging & at the same time, it killed me imagining & living in such a world, for every minuscule sec.
I let out a sigh of relief once the book finished, as if I had been holding my breath..to be pulled into the sequel, 🍋 LemonWorld.
Its a fun read, written in an interesting way..a style very different from what I had experienced in my previous read THE ANCESTOR, by the author.

🍊 Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of THE ANCESTOR, THE DESIRE CARD, SLOW DOWN and THE MENTOR from St. Martin’s Press. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. ORANGE CITY, his first sci-fi novel, is forthcoming in 2021 along with his YA series RUNAWAY TRAIN.

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