The Egghead Detective Agency Volume 2

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 The Egghead Detective Agency Volume 2 - Book Review Greetings, fellow little detective enthusiasts! The Egghead Detective Agency returns with its sharp-witted trio and their egg-cellent adventures (pun intended). Let’s dive into round 2 with some rib-tickling jokes: Why do you call a dino that doesn’t bathe?  A Stink-o-saurus!  And what did the egg say to the dino? “You’re egg-stinct!”  Lastly, what do you call a dinosaur that’s a noisy sleeper? A dino-snoreus! Did those jokes crack you up? Volume 2 promises more laughter and mysteries to puzzle out. Once again, Antara, Tamara, and their ghostly confidante employ their wit, a touch of wisdom, and keen observations to connect the dots, follow clues, and bring to light the culprit. From figuring out the mystery behind a buried bone and a truckload of garbage, to solving the riddle of graffiti on the wall and apprehending a book thief, to tackling a haunted flat and ingeniously returning a ghost’s armchair home—the trio’s quirky methods
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Starry Starry Night - Book Review

 Starry Starry Night - Book Review 

Starry Starry Night : Book Review

Author : Nandita Basu 

Publisher : Penguinsters

“Does pain ever get better? 


Nothing is static. Even pain evolves. There will be days it will hurt as it were only yesterday. And then there will be days you will not feel it. Like nothing ever happened. But yes, it gets better. Because you no longer reject it.”


One of the most beautifully expressed emotion from the book Starry Starry Night. As someone who has lost her mother at an age where I needed her the most, I could feel myself speaking the same language as the main characters of the story. I literally immersed myself in the grief Kunal and his aunt Tara go through. Kunal, who has lost his mother, has to go and live with a distant aunt Tara until he finds a place in a hostel to live. Tara has lost her best friend Nysa. She runs a special music programme in the same school where Kunal is enrolled. Tara filled with grief, witnesses a figure who she refers as Death often around her, has been to a rehab centre years back for the same. 


Starry Starry Night is a heart touching story about two strangers living together and united by their shared experience of loss. 


The bitter pills of death highlighted throughout the book entangled me into those same emotions I was going through a decade ago after the loss.

 A low spirited story yet the one that will make you realise that life has to go on after loss. Aunt Tara as the person of influence is truly understanding. Her belief of not owning anything that lives is so profound. The way she makes Kunal comfortable living with her and letting him be in his comforting grief at times is emotive. 


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