50 Cups of Coffee by Khushnuma Daruwala - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

  • May 06, 2019
  • By Samriddha Bhattacharya
  • 1 Comments


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Checklist:
  • Grew up watching Disney movies?
  • Love reading romantic novels?
  • More caffeine in your blood than red blood cells?
  • Looking at a stiletto hurts your eyes?
  • Workaholic?
  • Party pooper?
  • Couldn't care less about makeup?
  • Work in a creative world?
  • Think you are going to meet your Mr. Right in some romantic yet unconventional place like an elevator, or in the form of a stranger who walks up to you with an umbrella on a rainy night and offers to drop you home?
Well congratulations to you!!! Yep. You. You are going to die alone. 'Cause you won't find your Knight in Shining Armour/Prince Charming/Mr. Right or whatever the hell you call him. 

You are going to die alone. Definitely. 

 Being a total sucker for romance at heart (although I make a successful effort of not showing it), this book ripped me into pieces like an old yellowed square of paper and threw them into the air. It really hurt. And while no, none of her lovers die out of cancer or some other terminal disease that he succumbed to, after she found her soul twin in him, this book is going to make you cry your eyes out. Over the fact that you will never get your Mister Right ever. Well, Dia, the lady who sat on one side of those 50 cups of coffee still remains positive, although she shoulders a thoroughly battered and broken self esteem, she vows to never give up. But I can not say the same.

Although she mention that she enters the market at the age thirty-five, which clearly means that you are only left with the pervs, the ones who shun marriage, the divorcees married surprisingly just for 3 months, the losers, the mamma's boys and the homosexuals. Basically when you reach a sabzi mandi at 12pm, you will obviously just get the rotten leaves. So either you can starve, or eat the leaves. Choice is yours. But Dia, clearly doesn't want to settle just for leaves, even if it requires further scouring.

50 Cups of Coffee, is a fun read regarding the encounters the protagonist of the book Dia, goes through to meet her perfect man. Although she doesn't end up finding her man, because this is inspired from real life and isn't entirely fiction. Her ordeals with the different men, make for a fun, routine breaking read.

PS: All the romantic novels are a sham. This is the real deal. Period.

Title : 50 Cups of Coffee
Author : Khushnuma Daruwala
SOC Rating : 3/5
Genre : Biography/Humour/Romance
Publisher : Penguin
Publishing Year : 2017
#Pages : 157

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1 Comments

  1. A tad late but I just came across the review. I hope you enjoyed the book. It was meant to evoke laughter but I think it seems to have evoked cynicism too :) Thanks for the review. Its always a delight to virtually bump into readers. Khushnuma

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