The Preeti Shenoy Combo

What would you do if destiny twisted the road you took? What if it threw you to a place you did not want to go? Would you fight would you run or would you accept? Set across two cities in India in the early eighties Life is What You Make it is a gripping account of a few significant years of Ankita?s life. Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young good-looking smart and tones of friends and boys swooning over her. She also manages to get into a premier management school for her MBA. Six months later she is a patient in a mental health hospital. Life has cruelly and coldly snatched that which meant the most to her and she must now fight to get it all back. It is a deeply moving and inspiring account of growing up of the power of faith and how determination and an indomitable spirit can overcome even what destiny throws at you. A tale at its core a love-story that makes us question our beliefs about ourselves and our concept of sanity and forces us to believe that life is truly what one makes it.Life is a collection of moments some memorable and some mundane. Often it is the tiniest things that bring the greatest joy even though at that time we have no idea that what we are witnessing may be magical something that we will talk about and laugh over after many years. Packed with her hilarious narratives poignant observations and a writing style loved by millions across the world this book is certain to strike a chord with anybody who has children or who has been a child themselves! For those who have read 34 Bubblegums and Candies this is a new version with many additional stories. For others it is a heart-warming hilarious and inspiring collection of true anecdotes from the author?s life telling us to Love A Little Stronger no matter what happens.What if your mind is your greatest enemy? What if you were living your worst nightmare? How would you cope? Ankita has fought a mental disorder been through hell and survived two suicide attempts. Now in Mumbai surrounded by her loving and supportive parents everything seems idyllic. She is not on medication. She is in a college she loves studying her dream subject: Creative Writing. She has made friends with the bubbly Parul and the glamourous Janki. At last leading a ?normal life? she immerses herself in every bit of it ? the classes her friends her course and all the carefree fun of college. Underneath the surface however there is trouble brewing. A book she discovers in her college library draws her in consumes her and sends her into a terrifying darkness that twists and tears her apart. To make matters worse a past boyfriend resurfaces throwing her into further turmoil. Armed with only a pen and a journal she desperately fights with every ounce of strength she has. But can she escape her thoughts? Will Ankita survive the ordeal a second time around? What does life have in store for her? Preeti Shenoy's compelling sequel to the iconic bestseller Life is What You Make It chronicles the resilience of the human mind and the immense power of positive thinking. The gripping narrative demonstrates with gentle wisdom how by changing our thoughts we can change our life itself.