Abhiruchi Devdekar (Sasa)

Courtesy - Pintrest I've been rooting for collecting all the Sophie Kinsella best sellers since the time I saw the movie - "Confessions of a shopaholic", and anything which includes fashion always has my attention first! And guess what? Almost all her novels consists of a shopping-maniac. But this one is different. Rom-com being her genre, it gives the reader immense joy, of having these mainstream happy endings, the plot of this book is just so similar to some k-drama's, meaning, it's always sugar sweet. This book is about Emma, and her "secrets", all kinds of secrets, some of them being, how she fakes her branded items, how she weighs more than what she tells, how she finds G-strings uncomfortable, how she feeds her annoying colleague's plant with orange juice whenever she talks to much, how she always feels like her boyfriend Connor looks like Ken as in the one in the Barbie movies, how she lies to him about loving jazz when she just can't sta...

Courtesy - Pintrest Loving someone and not expecting to get it back, sums up this book pretty much and Murakami being the writer, it's surely not a typical love triangle.  K., 25, the protagonist and also the voice of this book, is a primary school teacher. He's in love with Sumire whom he's friends with since they met in college. Love for reading books is the common interest they share. Infact Sumire even drops out of the college to focus on writing. He's somehow attracted to her. Sumire knows this but never feels the same way back. She says she's actually never been in "Love". Sumire is a 22 year old girl who's always dressed up shabby and probably smokes all day having zero interests in impressing boys and always focussed on reading and writing, in short, she's quite messed up. Until one day when she meets Miu. She meets Miu and gets her life all together in a way. She starts dressing up well, has a job, quits smoking, learns different languages...