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Finding Cinderella (Hopeless, #2.5) : Book Review

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Finding Cinderella (Hopeless, #2.5) By C olleen Hoover Finding Cinderella is the last part of the Hopeless series by Colleen Hoover. Hopeless and Losing hope focussed upon the story of Hope (aka Sky) and Dean Holder, with Hopeless being written from Hope’s perspective and Losing Hope being written from Dean’s perspective. Whereas this third part is about the lives of Hope’s and Dean’s best friends aka Six and Daniel respectively. Amid life journeys’ of Hope and Dean seeking each other, Colleen introduced us to Six and Daniel but left us wondering what happened to them. Thus, she came with up Finding Cinderella . Please see the below links if you want to get familiar with the characters and stories of Hope and Dean. Hopeless Losing Hope Plot of the story: Daniel wasn’t assigned any class in the fifth period and instead of informing the school admin about this, he used to hide in the closet every day for an hour as his nap time. During one such day, while he was lying ...

Shikhandi and Other Queer Tales They Don't Tell You : Book Review

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Shikhandi and Other Queer Tales They Don't Tell You  By Devdutt Pattanaik As the word ‘Queer’ which means unconventional or unusual so is this book which is a collection of unorthodox tales from Hindu Mythology. After reading this book you will realize what seems unusual and unconventional to us in present has always existed in Hinduism since ages but have been overlooked by everyone as we cannot accept our deities whom we bound our heads to, are part of these tales. Yes, I am talking about those tales of our traditional history where the relationship between 2 men or 2 women, or where a man becoming a woman, or a woman becoming a man were not considered unconventional, were not demeaned, were not looked down upon by the society, rather were well accepted and worshipped at times. Queer stories are not restricted to Hindu mythology. Arctic regions have a different tale, as per them the first couple on earth were two men, they got married, made love but child conceived coul...