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All these stories have been selected from the prestigious monthly Muse of the Month contest, and out of 100 stories, 25 made the final cut.
Recipe for a Perfect Marriage is a collection of short stories compiled and published by Women’s Web. Written by 22 women authors, the stories revolve around female protagonists, the layered relationships in their lives, and their desire to rewrite their own stories.
There is a wide range of underlying emotions that encompasses the entire collection. Apart from that, the protagonists too are as varied as they could be, in terms of age, occupations, and sexual orientation too.
I rated the stories based on their freshness, premise, and treatment. A few stories fell short of my expectation because of the lack of flow in writing, disjointed narration, or plot development.
What I’ve experienced from reading many anthologies is that all the stories are not always equally good. And it’s true in this case as well. Out of 25 stories, 5 garnered 4.5-5 stars, 6 fell in the 4-4.5 band, 5 got over 3.5 stars,
and the rest were in the 3-3.5-star range. So, I loved around 16 stories out of 25, which is quite an enjoyable experience.
These stories are exceptionally well written, with beautiful imagery, flawless narration, and a soul-stirring effect.
Absolutely! Dig in right away and you will surely lose yourself in the myriad emotions tying these protagonists together.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. All opinions are my own.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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