December TBR

December has finally begun, which means prepare a list of the books to be read this month. I have plenty of books pending on my TBRs for the previous months but for once I am going to try and stick to this one till I complete reading all 4 of the below mentioned books.

F a n t a s t i c   B e a s t s    a n d   W h e r e   t o   F i n d   T h e m
- by J.K. Rowling

S Y N O P S I S

A copy of Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them resides in almost every wizarding household in the country. Now Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief, which means that the pounds and Galleons you exchange for it will do magic beyond the powers of any wizard. If you feel that this is insufficient reason to part with your money, I can only hope that passing wizards feel more charitable if they see you being attacked by a Manticore.- Albus Dumbledore

Credits: Goodreads.com

T o   K i l l   a   M o c k i n g b i r d
-by Harper Lee

S Y N O P S I S

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

Credits: Goodreads.com

T h e   G i r l   o n   t h e   T r a i n

-by Paula Hawkins

S Y N O P S I S

EVERY DAY THE SAME
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

UNTIL TODAY
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Credits: Goodreads.com

C i n d e r
-by Marissa Meyer

S Y N O P S I S

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

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Favourite editing apps

Real life and reel life as you all know are two different things. Sometimes what looks like a beautiful bar of chocolate in real life might look like the poop emoji in your camera roll. Which is why, editing has become a very important thing to all the photographers around the world. Now, we all know that Photoshop is the best editing platform there is but not all the time are we able to pull out our laptops and start adding layers to our photos. Applications on our mobile phones are much easier to access and also gives our photos the touches it requires. Following are a few editing apps I absolutely love (They're a 100% free of cost):

1. V S C O   C a m
   Presets on this app are lovely and fun to use. I also love to play around and make my own filters.
2. R o o k i e   C a m
   This application comes in handy when you want to give your photographs a nice vintage touch.
3. P h o t o g r i d
   I use this app to give in some of my photos the white borders when necessary.
4. P i x l r
   Pixlr is an application that I use for making collages.

Hope this was helpful. Comment down your favourite editing apps!

Movie Review: The Jungle Book

There exists classics that never die and continue to impress the audience. The Jungle Book is one such classic, with each variation a writer puts on to the story, the more interesting it gets. Rudyard Kipling's darling anecdote returns to the screen in Walt Disney Pictures production from director Jon Favreau. The movie, been remade lots of times before, one would not expect so much from it. However, The Jungle Book that came out on 15th of April 2016, is without a doubt better than it's predecessors.

It takes us to a beautiful journey in a jungle. A mankind named Mowgli accepted to the wolf kind and bought up amongst the wolf pack, defeats his enemy that killed his father and has ambitions set on Mowgli's death towards the end of the story. Of course, Mowgli gets a lot of assistance from his beloved friend and mentor, Bagheera and his other friend Baloo.

The spectacular visual effects replaces our imagination that took a toll on ourselves after we read the book, compelling us to remember the movie for quite a while.

 

I loved the movie and would definitely recommend it to you.
 

RATE : 4.5/5⭐s

Movie Review: Neerja

The movie is about an extraordinary girl named Neerja Bhanot, who at the age of 23 saved 329 lives. First of all, I would like to thank the casting team for choosing Sonam Kapoor for the role as she did complete and pure justice to it. About the movie, it takes us into the Pan Am flight [New Delhi-Karachi-Frankfurt-New York], letting us experience the whole incident. Neerja, a woman with limitless courage, got into the plane two days before her 24th birthday. The film takes us to the early morning of 5th September, where Neerja gets ready for the flight, setting her hair, doing her make-up, with her parents messing around her. On the contrary, they give us a picture of the very same terrorists getting ready to hijack the Pan Am 73 flight, packing their guns and grenades.

The heroine of the movie carried out the role of the heroine of the hijack, exceptionally, throughout the whole movie. The fear and that very same fear being put into bravery is excellently portrayed through the varied expressions on Sonam Kapoor's face.. The atmosphere, editing and background of the movie is all well blended in.

I thought that the songs, though, astounding were unnecessary and brings us out of the tension. Besides that, I would suggest you watch the movie and take a journey through the varied emotions that begins from Neerja's little home and lasts till she takes her last breath.

RATE : 4/5⭐s

April favorite: Mary Jane Ansell

Introducing a new series to my blog- Favorites. The posts under this series will concentrate on one particular favorite of mine. There will be one post posted every month.

Featuring the artist: Mary Jane Ansell
Mary Jane Ansell was a previous finalist in the prestigious BP Portrait Award in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012 and has exhibited several times with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and The Threadneedle Prize. Based in the UK she shows internationally with recent group and solo exhibitions in London, New York, Singapore and LA. Mary Jane's work also features on the covers of a number of recent novels, including New York Times bestselling author Tiffany Baker and on the recently released album: Adam Ant is The BlueBlack Hussar In Marrying The Gunners Daughter..

If you haven't seen any of her extraordinary works yet, drop what you're doing and click on that like above. A remarkable artist who took my breath away the first time.

 

Comment down below, your favorite artist or name one thing you have been immensely loving this April.