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Every single thought can affect
how we act and lead to irreversible consequences that affect not only ourselves
but all those around us. We have to watch our thoughts. If we engage ourselves in certain twisted thoughts, we may get ourselves screwed up making us
act in the way we will live to regret. Every thought we conceive and every step
we make in our daily life matters. We say things in a moment of anger or
frustration and they can no longer be retracted. Sometimes no amount of damage
control can alter or rectify the effect and impact of the things that had been
said, acts or omissions that had been committed.
A good friend who is an avid
reader recommended the new book written by the author of Q&A/Slumdog
Millionaire, Vikas Swarup.
The Accidental
Apprentice is a page turn and there are many twists and turn as
the story unfolds and definitely kept me in suspense in one sitting last
Sunday. A very interesting concept as the story started with the protagonist,
Sapna Sinha being approached by a billionaire industrialist who wanted to make
her the CEO of his company. She was told that no prior business experience was
required and all she needed to do was to pass seven tests and the moment she
accepted the offer, the tests began. Vinay Mohan Acharya, chairman of the ABC
Group was the Business of the Year 2008 and the first lesson that he had told Sinha was this ‘In life you never get what you
deserve : you get what you negotiate’. The story tells us that all
that happens is linked from the beginning and life gives us what we deserve. A
powerful message indeed.
A couple of months ago, I picked
up the book “The Silent Wife” by A.S.A.Harrison.
The Silent Wife
is a chilling story about a couple that head for catastrophe and the outcome
keeps the reader in suspense. Both Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their
marriage. He is a committed cheater and she lives and breathes denial until the
time she has to confront her predicament and her choices.It is a psychological thriller
and the story is told from the husband’s perspective and also the wife’s. The
chapters alternate between 'HIM' and 'HER'. In the first chapter 'HER', Harrison wrote,“ At
forty-five, Jodi still sees herself as a young woman. She does not have her eye
set on the future but lives very much in the moment, keeping her focus on the
everyday. She assumes, without having thought about it, that things will go on
indefinitely in their imperfect yet entirely acceptable way. In other words,
she is deeply unaware that her life is now peaking, that her youthful
resilience --which her twenty-year marriage to Todd Gilbert has been slowly eroding-- is approaching a final stage of disintegration, that her notions about who she
is and how she ought to conduct herself are far less stable than she supposes,
given that a few short months are all it will take to make a killer out of her.”
The
Cuckoo’s Calling is a crime fiction written by JK Rowling using
her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith that caused some controversy when the true
identity of the new author was
unveiled. A model falls to her death from her apartment balcony, the police investigation has shown that it is a suicide however, her brother has his
doubts and engages Cormoran Strike to investigate into the case. It is a delight to read a story that is set against the backdrop of London, one of my favourite cities in the world.
Both The Silent Wife and The Cuckoo’s calling
are very well written thrillers. In these stories, one’s hatred can shape one’s
sanity and misguided passion can totally change one’s psyche. While these stories describe the dark
side of human nature, whodunits can be refreshing reads as it is always exciting
to guess the killers in these
thrillers.
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