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Chick Book Alert!

It does not get more Cosmo-istic than this. If you want something to breeze through on a lazy Sunday afternoon, grab a copy of Girl Alone and jump into that hammock with jug lemonade at bay.

The book reads like an extended Cosmo article. Actually, that is what it is! Rupa Gulab wrote some short stories for Cosmo and was persuaded by her friends to turn those into a book.

Girl Alone is a story of Arti, a girl in late twenties who is under parental pressure to find herself a groom, under friends’ pressure to find herself the right boyfriend, and under biological pressure to find herself a lover! Addicted to cough syrup and phobic to parrots and aging spinsters, Arti mirrors emotions that almost every girl goes through at some point in her life.

The author does an interesting job of using funnies and witty one-liners. I particularly like author’s take on love and marriage (how the two are separated by a hair-thin line and are yet completely different) in the closing chapter of the book. Read it if you are a girl. If you are not, I am surprised you reached this point. :p