Book Review - The Second Lady by Irving Wallace

It had been a very long time since I hit a bookstore. The online shopping was so easy and it was a boon to couch potatoes like myself.
So, when our gang planned an outing and finally achieved it, I wanted to go to a bookstore. Some of us wanted to go elsewhere and so we split up and I ended up in a bookstore where the shopkeeper was so busily guiding a woman and her friend on the latest arrivals. He was raving good reviews about The fault in our stars to them and I was freely roaming about. Though the e-shopping is great, it lacks something and that I feel is 'the feel you get when you are surrounded by thousands of books'.
There, when I was getting myself into that 'feel', I overheard the shopkeeper talking about a book called ' The Second Lady' by Irving Wallace.
Intrigued by it, I heard him and he was saying that it was one marvelous book and no one should miss it.
He even went to the great lengths in saying that if you have read it and you are not liking it a bit, you are free to return it to the same shop, since they are in huge demand!
OK!
Now I wanted that and added it to my pile of books.
Paid for the books and I am out of the shop. The remaining of the day was spent accompanying my friends and helping them buy things, since my budget of the day was over.
The book was laying there for a while and finally got my attention. I wanted to read this for a change after reading a huugggee one.
So here it goes.
The First Lady. It is all about the U.S first Lady.
The Russian leaders have a major plan and that is to replace the U.S First Lady with the dupe they have created just for a few days and to gather some information.
The depth of the transformation is marvelous. They plan each and everything in advance but how they leave out some important things and events that should have been taught to the dupe is ridiculous. May be the author overlooked it or may be and I guess it is to be left like that for the story to take place. It is an interesting read mixing politics with thriller and it left me wanting more.
I ended up finishing the book in under a day. It was a page-turner!
Having never read his books before, I don't have any knowledge to compare The Second Lady with his other works.
But I am sure to try out his other books and one shouldn't miss this.

Book Title - The Second Lady
Author- Irving Wallace
Genre - Suspense

My rating - 9/10

Book Review- Adultery by Paulo Coelho

Adultery by Paulo Coelho

   My first book of Paulo Coelho was The Eleven Minutes which came highly recommended from a friend. Then after I have read many of his books of which some were awe inspiring and some were a duh for me.
And with all due respect I pre-ordered this book as soon as I saw it online.
The book synopsis is as follows.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LOSE YOURSELF TO DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE

   A woman in her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet what she feels is an enormous sense of dissatisfaction. All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high school boyfriend. As she rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.

    One look at the title and at the synopsis makes you think may be this book is about extramarital affair and about how the leading lady overcomes it. But, no. It is not.
I could very well end the review here and make the inquisitive read the novel to find about what I am actually trying to say.
The novel starts with introductions.
How many of us are bored out of our wits? People always have wanted all but boredom. You know how irritating is idleness. An Idle brain is a devils workshop and probably this is what happened with the protagonist.
The story is all about her. She is a good wife. She is a good mother. Yet she feels something lacking in her life. Don't we all?
We all feel that there is always something lacking in our life and we try with all our might to gain it. But once you attain that something which you were lacking earlier, it is clear to you that something was not the reason for the emptiness that dominated your life.
Life gets boring and you get daring. Weird though, isn't it?
And if one is to read this book with a narrow mind, he or she is going to gain some.
But if you were to open your mind and put your heart into it, I assure you that it won't let you down.
I feel that this one deals with life as a whole than just adultery. And it is also about love.
It is also about letting yourself be who you are.

Read and see for yourself. I completed this one at the dearth of the night and i felt'wow'. You get 'that' feeling only with some books. Every bibliophile would know that feel. You don't get it with all that you read.
I highly recommend this one. And I am going to read it again.

(And I also felt that if they named the book a little differently, many of the readers would have prevented themselves from getting a scrutinizing glance from their parents.)

Rating: 10/10 and a thums up.

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