Love, kisses and all things warm by Preeti Shenoy

"Love, kisses and all things warm" by Preeti Shenoy - Unfulfilling?.

This book is published by Westland in 2015.

This book is a collection of five articles. Three of them are essays and two are love stories. One of the two is Preeti's story. Each article also has a hand drawn sketch by the author. 

When you are in love everything seems brighter. Once married, blinkers dissolve, harsh reality sets in. Other attractions appear. Weather you go with distractions or remain true blue is up to you. If all above is navigated safely, congratulations are in order. Here author cautions that extra martial affairs can happen at any time but most likely between 4th and 8th year of marriage. 

Offices are fertile ground for relationships to bloom. This has given rise to new phenomenon called 'office spouse'. The relationship may be romantic or platonic. Obama couple and Gates couple married after office romance. This article on office romance is fantastic. It's short, to the point and does not look at office romance with any prejudice. Only the last advise about company policy appears out of sync.

Kiss on the lips is ultimate symbol of passion and romance. In this easy author discusses various art works (paintings, short film and songs) that epitomize kiss. Here she demonstrates her understanding and interpretation of art. I came to know about the masterpiece of René Magritte's painting 'The lovers' due to this book. It's an awesome painting and can be interpreted in many ways. 

Love story of Preeti (and her, now, husband) is covered extremely briefly. After reading the author's note, I became interested in the story. But it ends very quickly and does not give details of how it happened. 

The timeless love story is of Margaret and Cyril who were in RAF (Royal air force of Britain) when they were 23 and 22 respectively. They eventually married at the age of 93 and 92 in presence of their families. Basically the message is that love can happen at any age, but again the story is extremely short.

This book discusses love. Generally when you read a good book, you get a sense of fulfilment at the end. This book bursts an exception to that. Although the book is good, you think more was needed. More articles were required, not just 5. More material was required in each article. There is a sense of incompleteness.

Why did publishers decide to publish such a small book? They could have easily added more pages. Was is to capitalise on author's popularity? It was published on Valentine's day, so they were opportunistic too.

Why did I read this book? Author and because it is a very small book.

What I didn't like? Stories are too short.  

What did I like? Essay on kiss. 

A good 'super quick' read.