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Just finished "Can We Be Strangers Again" by Shrijeet Shandilya and this book absolutely amazed me in the best way possible!!!

It's about three college friends who meet during online classes during COVID - Dev, Avantika, and Tanishka - and how their friendship completely changes when feelings get involved. Sounds simple but it's so much more than that.

What actually got me:

• The writing style is so simple but hits so hard? Like the author doesn't use fancy language to make you feel things. Every sentence just hits differently.

• Tanishka as a character - she's that friend everyone has. That one friend who listens to everyone's problems and is a expert in hiding her own feelings because that's just who she is. Watching her character arc was actually painful but in such a beautiful way.

• The way the author captured what it felt like to be in college during COVID. The loneliness, the weird connection you have with people through screens, the confusion of being young and figuring yourself out - all of it just felt so real.

• The friendships actually feels genuine and not like the romanticized version. It's messy and unclear and sometimes you don't even know what you're feeling and the book captures that perfectly.

It's not just about romance or friendship drama. It's about how people you care about deeply can become strangers, and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it. How the hardest goodbyes are the ones where the person is still in your life but something fundamental has shifted. And that's something everyone goes through but nobody really talks about.

Honestly if you haven't read this, you should. Especially if you want a book that makes you feel something real and doesn't try to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. If you read it in school and didn't get it, give it another shot. It's actually incredible.

Honestly if you are on a search for good books to read, you should definitely read this one.

Just finished "Can We Be Strangers Again" by Shrijeet Shandilya and this book absolutely amazed me in the best way possible!!!

It's about three college friends who meet during online classes during COVID - Dev, Avantika, and Tanishka - and how their friendship completely changes when feelings get involved. Sounds simple but it's so much more than that.

What actually got me:

• The writing style is so simple but hits so hard? Like the author doesn't use fancy language to make you feel things. Every sentence just hits differently.

• Tanishka as a character - she's that friend everyone has. That one friend who listens to everyone's problems and is a expert in hiding her own feelings because that's just who she is. Watching her character arc was actually painful but in such a beautiful way.

• The way the author captured what it felt like to be in college during COVID. The loneliness, the weird connection you have with people through screens, the confusion of being young and figuring yourself out - all of it just felt so real.

• The friendships actually feels genuine and not like the romanticized version. It's messy and unclear and sometimes you don't even know what you're feeling and the book captures that perfectly.

It's not just about romance or friendship drama. It's about how people you care about deeply can become strangers, and sometimes there's nothing you can do about it. How the hardest goodbyes are the ones where the person is still in your life but something fundamental has shifted. And that's something everyone goes through but nobody really talks about.

Honestly if you haven't read this, you should. Especially if you want a book that makes you feel something real and doesn't try to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. If you read it in school and didn't get it, give it another shot. It's actually incredible.

Honestly if you are on a search for good books to read, you should definitely read this one.

I know this book is like ancient and everyone's read it but I finally got around to it and I get why people won't shut up about it now.

It's about this girl scout living in the south during the great depression and her dad is a lawyer who defends a black man accused of a crime he didn't commit. Sounds heavy, but the way it's told through scout's perspective makes it so good.

What actually got me:

● the writing style is so simple but so powerful? Like harper lee doesn't need to be fancy. The way she describes things just hit different.

● Atticus finch is literally the blueprint for what a good person looks like. His whole approach to morality and standing up for what's right even when nobody else will - that's the character.

●Growth arcs of scout and jem's character are insane. You watch them grow up and lose their innocence and it's sad but also beautiful because they learn what really matters.

It's not just a book about racism in the past. It's about humanity and what it means to do te right thing even when it costs you. And that's timeless, you know?

Honestly if you haven't read this, read it. If you read it in school and hated it, give it another shot. It's actually incredible.

Who am I? And what I've become ?

A guilt I'm shrouded in ..

A terror I'm bounded with..

Wish to bury my spirit, in the garden of dissatisfaction..

I wish to burn my every sphere for my unfamiliar actions..

I birth the tears, and howl my lungs..

I scream for the joy since my soul is young

My tears and rage floods ...

Am I really fine?

Being stuck in the pool of love and devine I endure the pain, wait for the explosion To swallow the lava, off my throat ..

And let it burn myself from inside, turn every fragment into ashes..

Who am I? And What I've become?

Maybe in another life,l'll rise up again, For goodwill, for good deeds,

Going out of waves of wonder through my mind,

the love along my heart rewinds,

I don't need any revenge, I need your hand for my journey to heaven..

-Phoenix

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Shades of love

I was between Greys,

When I met you ,

Brown were your eyes , a magic I never knew..

The dreams were golden and pink were the skies

Dark were the nights and crystals were the lies

Red was my cheeks at your every glance

Blue were my mind when I knew who I am

White were my days but I starting loving yellow as it was your favourite colour ..

When you come infront , the world was blur

Purple were my scars but your words healed me

Your touch melted my being

Orange were the evening I started loving ..

My colourless world were pastel in my vision ..

Since I admire every shade you passed by..

Colourful was the sky above

When I read the shades of love

-Aaradhya Phoenix

I completed reading this book few days ago and personally it felt so good like a refreshment.

It freely talks about adulthood stuff - the phase in your life where you are stuck wondering why did I choose this life for myself? It's a light hearted novel and would definitely recommend it.

I am yet to read the second part of this novel and I am so eager to purchase that book. I feel 25 years old takako at some point represent all adults who are stuck wondering what will happen now and then just leave it on their fate.

The betrayal was there, but so was her uncle's support. The sweet,melancholic love story of her uncle and his wife speaks that life has different ways of suprising us.

Takako's love for classic literature grows as she finds herself surrounded by books all the time and then slowly submerges herself into the land of novels, literature as if she has found an escape from this constant rat race of our lives.

Honestly I don't know why this book felt so refreshing, maybe it was different or maybe it just felt real fiction.

Anyways do drop below your suggestion in the comments.

I completed reading this book few days ago and personally it felt so good like a refreshment.

It freely talks about adulthood stuff - the phase in your life where you are stuck wondering why did I choose this life for myself? It's a light hearted novel and would definitely recommend it.

I am yet to read the second part of this novel and I am so eager to purchase that book. I feel 25 years old takako at some point represent all adults who are stuck wondering what will happen now and then just leave it on their fate.

The betrayal was there, but so was her uncle's support. The sweet,melancholic love story of her uncle and his wife speaks that life has different ways of suprising us.

Takako's love for classic literature grows as she finds herself surrounded by books all the time and then slowly submerges herself into the land of novels, literature as if she has found an escape from this constant rat race of our lives.

Honestly I don't know why this book felt so refreshing, maybe it was different or maybe it just felt real fiction.

Anyways do drop below your suggestion in the comments.

I am the moon waiting for you ,

my warming sun ,

yet i know if i touch you ,

i'll be burnt in agony .

And the sky i call mine ,

would shatter within the canopy .

If you touch me , my almighty ,

i'll be pushed out of this shadow ,

yet , no one could ever watch me grow ,

i'll be washed away ,

with your own games ,

and my name...

would never be heard again .

My warmest sun , i have admired you for centuries and since i've been here ,

I've followed your path ,

but ended up being in this dark .

I've manifested to all my admirers ,

to take me where you belong ,

But you were in your brightness my love .

You cherished the fire you held ,

while i was holding ice for you .

You cherished the flames that burns your admirers ,

while some loved my scars too .

I couldn't reach to them ,

in sight i wanted you,

so my celestial body would burn .

I am the moon waiting for you ,

my warming sun.

~Aaradhya Phoenix

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I personally feel that thousand splendid suns is a book about what happens when two women who are helpless, bound by same fate becomes each other life line.

I expected the relationship between mariam and laila to be bitter honestly. While reading it, I was hundred percent sure that mariam would have hated laila for her decision but she didn't. Mariam saw a helpless little girl and a mother instead of a woman who stole her husband. These two women together faced their husband's Rasheed toxic enviroment but sadly at last only one could escape.

Mariam, a little girl, blisfully unaware of who her father really was, kept waiting for him and after her fight with her mother, went to live with him only to realise that her father never really wanted her and visited her out of guilt. From a very young age she understood the word betrayal and unwanted.

Laila a girl full of spirit had her life torn apart in between wars between two nations and had to say goodbye to her love of life tariq.

Despite the ongoing war, these two found comfort in each other.

Hosseini's character feel like symbols. They weren't made to actually represented afghanistan or any political party. There were made to represent those struggling womens who are yet to find their courage and voice.

The older I get, the more I realise is that some books leaves memorable impact behind because in those characters we see the harsh, cold reality.

The thousand splendid suns was never just another one of the book to me. It always felt close to me because only after reading it did I realise what freedom actually costs.

I completed reading this book few days ago and personally it felt so good like a refreshment.

It freely talks about adulthood stuff - the phase in your life where you are stuck wondering why did I choose this life for myself? It's a light hearted novel and would definitely recommend it.

I am yet to read the second part of this novel and I am so eager to purchase that book. I feel 25 years old takako at some point represent all adults who are stuck wondering what will happen now and then just leave it on their fate.

The betrayal was there, but so was her uncle's support. The sweet,melancholic love story of her uncle and his wife speaks that life has different ways of suprising us.

Takako's love for classic literature grows as she finds herself surrounded by books all the time and then slowly submerges herself into the land of novels, literature as if she has found an escape from this constant rat race of our lives.

Honestly I don't know why this book felt so refreshing, maybe it was different or maybe it just felt real fiction.

Anyways do drop below your suggestion in the comments.

As i walk pass my old memories ,

i see a coffin with a note above it,

that reads

- "Agony ceased."

I wonder how these ashes doesn't matter to me anymore ,

which once scattered me ,

made me cry out the grief i couldn't hold.

Some trusts still gets broken ,

some people still hurts me more and more .

Some avoids being around me ,

some doesn't hold my secret,

and few just speaks poison to me .

The wounds and sorrow still hazes my eyes and vanishes my breathes .

Perhaps ,

in some days - i might encompass an eternity ,

in the arms of believes and burning hatred .

Nevertheless ,

i am tired of complaining,

i am tired of adjusting.

The coffin i stand beside ,

is - Empty .

No ashes , no residue ,

Because what i expected to die years back ,

still walks beside me ,

As i walk pass my memories .

~Phoenix

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