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 Book Review ✨ The Lulu Duologues by Vivek S Patwardhan • The book comprises of some insightful conversation with the author's parrot, Lulu. The chapters in the book discusses various topic and each of them is different from one another. All these conversations are from the Blog the author used to write years ago.  Lulu, the parrot, is very thoughtful and intelligent who understands the author very well. The conversation both of them have is filled with fun, sarcasm and thought-provoking humour. The author often calls Lulu as a well-trained psychologist as he knows what's going on in author's mind.  The book also discusses on serious topics like rape, with an example of the Bystander Effect. Lulu also shares his views about a book he read and asks the author about it.  "Writing is such a good activity. People see a different side of one's personality. You cannot write a good piece, without a bit of soul searching"

 Book Review✨ Thinking Out Loud by Tapan Ghosh • A collection of 29 short stories and views of the author and his take on topics like religion, faith, mythology, love, and so on.  The author talks about Nobody, a nobody which our mind controls says an empty mind is the devil's workshop. The Nobody he says here can be your soul, heart, free-mind, inner-soul. Aren't we often controlled by our minds, and they do some tricks on us? I liked the thought-provoking messages in first chapter 'You are Nobody'.  The book says to us that love is not an illusion and there's different meaning to a simple word 'Love'.  There are conversation between two friends, discussing serious topics and it made the reading more interesting. However, there were some areas were I couldn't agree and that's okay cause everyone has different views. "Life is a sail boat ride and wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!"