[Book Review] Like the flowing river

Well.. This book is an autobiography of Paulo Coelho. The various experiences in his life are printed in short paragraphs not exceeding two pages at the most. Some of them are great while others are okay. After all its his 'experiences', not everything is going to be excellent. 

I really liked 'the day at the mill', 'story of the pencil' ,'my funeral' and 'the funny thing about human beings'. These four of his experiences made me think again.

This is entirely different from 'Alchemist' mainly because 'Like the flowing river' is an autobiography which has been written by Paulo Coelho in Portuguese and translated to us by Margaret Jull Costa. This book gives author's personal reflections on everything from music to archery. This is not only an interesting catch but also a book that will help you to know more about the author's life. 

[Movie Review] Divergent

"Divergent" is a dystopian movie based on the author Veronica Roth's book by the same name. Each of the scenes in this movie is entirely from the book and thus, it is highly similar to the book regarding everything.

The movie stars Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Ansel Elgorth in lead roles. 'Divergent' is a movie about choices. The film starts off with a detailed narration of their world from Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley). On coming to the age, each teenager is free to choose a faction out of the five factions available - Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity and Dauntless. Beatrice aka Tris is intrigued by the lifestyle of dauntless faction and she becomes a part of it on the choosing ceremony. Soon she is making new friends, getting weird tattoos, romancing with her trainer, Four(Theo James), learning secrets about factions and fighting to save her family, friends and creating a new space for the divergents.

The differences I found between the movie and the book is that the movie focuses on the story rather than on Tris - Four relation (which makes the book quite annoying). The second difference is that the movie is quite fast paced unlike the book and finally, its lot better than book thanks to the actors.

'Divergent' is greatly popular among teenagers all because of Veronica Roth's book but honestly speaking I wasn't much into the book. As of whole, 'Divergent' movie is definitely not a must watch but if you are looking for a dystopian movie spiced up with a bit of romance, courageous acts and fighting then this movie is all yours.

London Dairy

Yesterday, when I went shopping in a super market called Green... I think it was 'Green' or was it 'Greens'.. Anyway, I was wheeling the trolley around when my eyes fell on these.
 

 

These little babies were chilling in the mini refrigerator with "London Dairy" stuck on its top and I pointed it out to my dad and said "Can I have those?". He said, "We'll get those at last or else they might melt". And after minutes of waiting, I was finally standing in front of it deciding which one to grab. 

As I was standing there wondering, a guy "excused me" and took one big packet of this ice cream and hurried off quickly. Okay.. I couldn't stand there for hours deciding on flavours, so I grabbed two small ones(I still can't believe I took two packets of same flavour) of this and dumped in our trolley.

Finally when I got home, I was desperate to try it. After lunch, I took them out of the fridge and gave one to my brother and started opening the "premium ice cream".. (That's what it said on the packet).. On opening, I found these weird spoons.

I was expecting something more like scoop spoons but this was it. I slowly peeled off the paper layer and there it was.. More like 'payasam' than ice cream. At last, I tasted London Dairy. It was not mind blowing but it was OK. Maybe the flavour I chose was bad. Anyway, it was an interesting experience and by the way, I really liked the packet ;)
 

[Movie Review] Edge of Tomorrow

"Edge of tomorrow" is one of the best movies that I saw till-date. Being an 'alien invasion' kind of movie, I tried avoiding it but after watching this movie I confess that I was indeed a fool for avoiding it. From the name you won't even know what the film is about and because of it this amazing film lost many of its would-be viewers. This film is based on a Japanese novel "All you need is Kill" by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.

Staring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in lead roles, the film has got a strong female character. 'Edge of tomorrow' mainly focuses on three genres- action, time travel and alien invasion. The movie gives more space to the development of the characters instead of the usual wreckage caused by the aliens and this indeed is a better change. 

The movie starts of with Mr Cage (Tom Cruise) broadcasting his soldiers' new defence system for the country's protection. Soon after his communication, he ends up being one of such soldiers but fails having had neither training nor experience. Step by step, he realizes his mistakes and decides to amend it by literally going back. He seeks the help of Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) who is the only person who can get him out of his confusion circle and back on track to save the rest of mankind. 

This is indeed a movie which you should not miss out by any chance. 'Edge of Tomorrow' having got its gloomy title couldn't get the expected box office but it has managed to earn massive support and fans from all over the world. For the satisfaction of everybody they decided to add a tagline (Live. Die. Repeat.) which pretty much sums up everything about this movie. Be sure to check this one out!