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The Door by Magda Szabo

An overwhelming story that touched me to the core 

The Devil And Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho

A small village blessed with the epitome of both the beauty and harshness of nature, people living with basic needs of human life but surreptitiously craving the joys of the city life and a circle of day and night that keeps only one promise that nothing will change in the mundane life of that small town. And one day, the devil arrives to the town to test the integrity of the humane emotions of the people of this town.  One more Must-read book from Paulo Coelho that reveals the secret of human emotions and the internal struggle to dare the dream, face the fear of unknown and live the life truly. 224 pages book that takes you through a week in the life of a coward crowd that is ready to sacrifice a single for the betterment of large, a girl who dares to dream a life beyond the regular and a stranger who is testing the life to sort his own struggle between inherent goodness or evil in human mind. Quotes from the book: "Anyone who loves in the expectation of bein...

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

There is a quote in Srimad Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit which says “Jatasya Maranam Dhruvam”. It literally means that the star called Dhruv which rise in night has to set but the implied meaning of the saying is “That which is born shall die”. We know that our life is not eternal and there is an end for our life too, but we don’t want to think about our end or even the journey called life. We keep ourselves too busy in our goals and fight so hard to reach those goals that we forget to give time to the most important things in life.  Here is a story by Mitch Albom where he shares the lessons of life he learnt from his long-lost professor. In his last days, Professor Morrie, or what he would like to be called ‘Coach’, would act as a mentor for the writer and answer the questions which were bothering writer from long time. The questions which our generation doesn’t want to think about, may be because we are too scared to know the answer. The writer and his professor takes us ...