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peelspls's review
4.0
Unique perspective of multi-cultural immigrant and diaspora stories blended together in the ordinary life of people trying to find emotional harmony in their lives.
booknerdy2020's review
3.0
THE WEIGHT LOSS CLUB is set in a middle class housing society of Kolkata.
The book shows the journey of the residents of Nancy housing cooperative as they go about the curious experiments with love,life and weight loss. Each character has been very well defined. Though the title says weightloss, only one character seems to loose a few kilos. So I guess it's more about shedding the mental baggage than the physical one.
It's a warm ,witty and quite a realistic book.
A easy and simple read.
My Rating - 3.5/5
The book shows the journey of the residents of Nancy housing cooperative as they go about the curious experiments with love,life and weight loss. Each character has been very well defined. Though the title says weightloss, only one character seems to loose a few kilos. So I guess it's more about shedding the mental baggage than the physical one.
It's a warm ,witty and quite a realistic book.
A easy and simple read.
My Rating - 3.5/5
soniek's review
4.0
Simple, entertaining and gripping. It doesn't have a weak, cliched plot like many other books by contemporary Indian authors, the language, though simple isn't simplistic. And the colourful characters, the attention to the tiniest of details, frequent references to the various localities, language and cuisine of Calcutta is what makes this book an enjoyable read. Not to mention the description of the Puja itself, without which a book based in Calcutta and written by a Bengali author would have been incomplete.
em_beddedinbooks's review
3.0
The initial promise of a cozy Indian story did not last through the entire book. By about 40% things began to pall, and it dragged on and on and on, and finally wrapped itself up including exotic circumstances. The only character I loved was Apoorva or Apu, rest all were sort of stereotyped to the extreme.
The story of the parallel lives lived in a middle income group apartment complex takes place in Calcutta, but it may be true (to some extent, sans the extreme picturization) to all Indian metros and cities.. and can be extrapolated to all mid socioeconomic status people.
The story of the parallel lives lived in a middle income group apartment complex takes place in Calcutta, but it may be true (to some extent, sans the extreme picturization) to all Indian metros and cities.. and can be extrapolated to all mid socioeconomic status people.
booknerdy_2020's review
3.0
THE WEIGHT LOSS CLUB is set in a middle class housing society of Kolkata.
The book shows the journey of the residents of Nancy housing cooperative as they go about the curious experiments with love,life and weight loss. Each character has been very well defined. Though the title says weightloss, only one character seems to loose a few kilos. So I guess it's more about shedding the mental baggage than the physical one.
It's a warm ,witty and quite a realistic book.
A easy and simple read.
My Rating - 3.5/5
The book shows the journey of the residents of Nancy housing cooperative as they go about the curious experiments with love,life and weight loss. Each character has been very well defined. Though the title says weightloss, only one character seems to loose a few kilos. So I guess it's more about shedding the mental baggage than the physical one.
It's a warm ,witty and quite a realistic book.
A easy and simple read.
My Rating - 3.5/5
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