Brida by Paulo Coelho

Am done with another book. Great…

Exactly when I was wildly analyzing on what 26 years of Earth+Uma has contributed to, it was tough to point out accomplishments.. and even tougher to end up saying nothing tangible…when the journey was as tough as most of the people and more tough than few of them.

So to the intangible accomplishments..

Apart from few compliments received.. which seemed unrealistic at times or as if originated for the need of the hour..the few times in life when mind and heart nodded to the same beat…”Yes.. u have done it” was every time I finished a book. So my most tangible accomplishments(this para was to b abt intangible accomplishments?, anyway.. no1 bothers abt it…) lie in the loft.. in a box severed tight with thoughts on not sharing any of them with anybody. Call me selfish, spend thrift, dash dash.. I prefer “Possessive”.. Extremely possessive on my books more than I’m on my guy.. A guy who earns to get one of them will be my SoulMate.. not the Oxford meaning.. but Paulo Coelho’s..

The way he describes a SoulMate..MG.. I fell in love.. with the book and with the Author.. gud tat he was more than 60..;) Always wondered on various facts on Earth and Life as a kid.. which was too dreamy then.. on

1.          Y Sun rises in the East? Y not North or South?

2.          How Birth/Death happens?

3.          They taught plants are non living things. And now they say they 2 are living..Does a Waterfall has life too? That’s categorised non-living today..

4.          Y r these Saints behind the Qn “Y am I born?” ? (They are born just like me.. I don’t bother. Y do they alone? )

5.           If every human is a reincarnation of another soul in the past, then how did the total World Population rose from 2(Adam and Eva) to billions in India alone. (shud hav been billions In the beginning itself or 2 now)

6.          etc.,.

Mind finds an answer and the next question pops up. The biggest challenge was to find the answer for the last qn which makes me postpone thoughts for future.. As usual, forgot most of them. The best solution/ definition for most of them is encrypted here through the Tradition of the Moon and the Tradition of the Sun. Guys.. its not a book on Astronomy. When I read the Epilogue.. I felt the same.. it was as cryptic as it cud be.. but as the pages flipped, I started talking with these as my Alphabets..

A new definition to Fiction.. It can happen only with Paulo Coelho. Guys whoever loved Inception will be awestruck seeing themselves moving through levels of trances. Just by inkmarks on a sheet.. with no costs on graphics or pay checks or popcorns..

It is about a girl’s journey to learn Magic (a bridge to walk from the visible world to the invisible and a tool to learn the lessons of both Worlds – Paulo’s defn) from 2 great personalities.. one who mastered the Tradition of the Sun, who happens to be her SoulMate…and the other, a Witch who masters in the Tradition of the Moon. The challenges she faces and the way she deals with them, mustering more courage,  dealing with her lack of confidence, taking a break now and then from her path to destiny and finally achieving what she wanted are all Paulo Coelho’s trademarks..(I stop with admiring them.. J) Carried from the Alchemist days..

Beyond these routine stuff, there were so many instances when I felt how on Earth can this guy imagine these.. he should have been so much into it.. thinking, thinking, thinking, eating, drinking and breathing the World of Magic. There were so many quotes on Nature, SoulMates, Magic, Life and Love which makes the reader search for a pen and an everlasting book.

It is about Magic.. but not the Harry Potter stuff..

It is about Witches.. but nothing to scare you..

Every chapter made me call him a mad freak for his thoughts and how he saw minute things which we failed to see aiming for different Tangibles. And it did happen.. This nonconformist was committed to a mental Institution twice by his father for following his dream. K Am fortunate..

A Convenient Groom

                My first Mills and Boon Book.. I have to accept that I din figure it till I finished.. ;) There were too many titles on the cover, which almost hid this Brand.. “ A Convenient Groom”, “The Bridal Business”, “Tender Romance” and Mills & Boon in the tiniest of the fonts.

                It is about Riana, an up-and-coming designer, dumped by her fair-weathered boyfriend, roaming on the streets with a bottle of vodka.. (Gud that these girls have a route to suppress and still call it a blow. )She wakes up in her office and finds a strange fiance overnight. Before she can figure out, what made Joe Henderson propose her and embark a new dream, called Marriage, she fell trapped in his sparkling eyes, authentic aura and tender care.

Still, a girl’s subconscious never believes, even if it’s the Avatar Ram. Just a Joe, who had impressed her with few pick-up lines in a bar.. One part of her waits for the second to figure out how Joe was using her. While , the other, loves every aspect of him, his golden eyes, his longing for love,  the space which she gave her, the attention he showed on her interests and work, his wish to raise a Terrier, his desire to have children and his untidy look.

                Thanks to her sixth sense, she meets Joe’s fiancé, engaged for the past 6 months, hidden from the time she met him till the second she dumps him for no reason, or without revealing the reason.  A girl, who dumps guys, even if she gets t slightest spark that he is playing around, finds for t first time, how it pains, when it dawns that u were never loved. She springs and gets back to her tough professional avatar., hiding her longing desire to get settled like her sisters.

Did Joe really cheat her? Who is this new fiancé? Will Riana design her own bridal dress, when every other bride glittered with her designs? .. The book will help you with these..: )

No idea, how this book came to my rack.. Must be a free gift with a magazine.. should have laid there for years. The size seemed attractive. It helped increase my count by 1in a week. J

Ranam Sugam : Book Isai

Team, can I call u a perfect combo? or is there any other word devised to mean more than this? it was an awesome experience. 2.30 hrs.. away from all my worries/confusions/even the thought that I dwell on Earth..The second I finished it and all the other seconds b4 it, I was waiting to get a copy each, for all my friends..most of them are unlucky as they cannot read tamil.


One sentence in the 1st chapter had impressed me like anything and published it immly in FB. B4 I crossed the next page, there was one more. And by the end of the book, I felt the urge to LIKE every other sentence in it.I just wanted to save them fresh for the yet-to-be readers/listeners/admirers of the bookisai. Else, this review would be glittering with all your gems.

Though the book/ the writing impressed me more than the music, I ended up listening to the songs everyday... to the extent of listening in the car, transferring to my mobile and playing in my workplace( it is so common these days.. still I din mak it a habit even with my ever-fav ARR nos.: ) ), again during the evening travel of 1.45 hrs and after reaching home too. Thot that I liked the Vaarthai thavarivittai song.. and then I made up that I liked Pachai Narambukul , and then was confused whether I liked the title song..it took a week's time for me to realize tat I cudnt miss a single song any no of times, I hear it.. (still.. my favourite is paathiyil.. evry time I hear it, I jus laugh lik anything.. I mak sure I skip that song alone in my off)

A different experience, a different approach, one-of-its kind outcome….. this list will be endless…

Waiting for your next masterpiece…

Uma Bagavathiraj

Life of Pie: Book Review

Hi,




Just finished a book, " Life of Pi" by Yann Martel...after a long

struggle.. ; )



The author is a Spanish born - Canadian and is best known for his Booker

Prize in 2002, which he received for this Pondicherry- based story.



Its about an Indian boy who loses his family in a ship-wreck and finds

himself all alone in a life-boat with a Hyena, an Orangutan, a Zebra

with a broken leg and Richard Parker, a highly ferocious Tiger.



Soon, he ends up being the only prey for the Tiger.



How he manages to spend 227 days( the highest so far) in the Pacific

with an ever-hungry Bengal Tiger, right next to him, forms the remaining

part of the story.

The way he handles things is highly astonishing for his age.. and we may

end up seeing our sickest problems more lighter..



And .. on the author.. I am still googling to find whether it is really

a fiction novel.. the only evidence being the rack I picked this novel

from...