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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.

Length: 226 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Preeti Shenoy is an author and an artist based at Bangalore, India. Her first book '34 Bubblegum's and Candies', a creative non-fiction made it to the national best-seller list. Her interests are as multifarious and diverse as her several academic degrees. She also specializes in pencil portraits and holds an internationally recognized qualification from UK in portraiture. She has held a number of varied jobs in the past. She has also written for different publications life Readers Digest and Times of India, as well as taught English and Math to underprivileged children in India. She loves art, reading, travelling, photography, nature, animals, blogging and basketball and most of all, spending time with her spouse and two children. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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I liked the starting and the way author created the suspense. I kept guessing the reason and was proved wrong at the end. Its very well written and is also a lesson for people who try to commit suicide. It tells you how important is your life and its very easy to enjoy it. All depend on you how you move forward. There will be situations in your life when you are highly frustrated but its all part of life. In book she got the doctor but in real life you get someone and you dont even realize to thank her for saving your life. Author described the kind of pain in stomach, its very much similar to a guilt feel or a kind of frustration which we feel when things are not in our favor or when some betray us or even you betray someone for a selfless reason. I liked the way author portrays the feeling of a person to damage her body to get rid of the mental pain. Its a must read. Hats off to Preeti Shenoy --Ravi Soni Aug 29, 2011

I think I am in loved wide its story. Its quite complicated yet interesting , it just tells that love must be confessed. delivery of the book was on time and buying this book was a good decision. I think I had added a pearl to my library. --ANKITA OJHA 31 Jul 2014

i am not a book bug.....still i managed to read the same and it totally changed my Perspective towards life.....one should definately buy this book and read it... everybody goes thru ups and downs in their lives....but how one manage the same is the question...most of us feel depressed or low at one point in time...but we should realise that life is beautiful .....with love,hope and friendship.....we should love ourselves first then only we can love others...nice book to have it in my kitty or rather my very first book...will like to read more books from the same author....well done lady!!! you rock!! --Pooja Chopra 24 Jan 2013 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Print Length : 226 pages
Publisher : Srishti Publishers & Distributors (12 July 2019)
Word Wise : Enabled
File Size : 532 KB
Language: : English
ASIN : B07V6HFRXC
Enhanced Typesetting : Enabled
Page Numbers Source ISBN : 9380349300
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled

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SHIVANI✔️

Inspiring

Reviewed in India on 30 March 2019

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Such a nice presenting the novel and stories of girl. It was really a minute to minute interesting like "what will be the next" somewhere on some point connecting to reality. I really enjoyed this book and happy read this book withing 2 days only. Fabulous writing keep it up Preeti Shoney

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Nand Kishor Sharma

Waste Of Money

Reviewed in India on 31 July 2019

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I found the title very catchy but the actual story wasn't. Depressing story of depression.
Many errors found, bad print quality...
Total waste of money... I regret why i hadn't brought "Sapiens by Yuval Harari" earlier.

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KOUSTAV H.

ITS HOW YOU TAKE IT...

Reviewed in India on 3 August 2017

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i must not comment on how the book is as this has got reviews from the readers that itself signifies what author wanted to establish via its readers...its being proved that book is a life changing writeup and thus stop worrying about money and the beautiful journey into which the author is trying to tour you.

All the best

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Dr. Poonam Nikam

Must read....

Reviewed in India on 19 May 2019

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"Life Is What You Make It " is a novel by Preeti Shenoy. Protagonist of story is Ankita Sharma, who is suffering from bipolar disorder. Novel tells how she overcomes all challenges to make life the way she wants.
The title of the book is self-explanatory. Life is full of ups and downs. Some people tend to get depressed because of the small struggle they face in their life. But on other hand there are also people who stand like a wall and face every situation comes in their way & make way out of it. Thus, you are only responsible for the way you want to spend your life.
Specially recommended to one who is suffering from down phase of life.

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Santosh Gadikar

Life story ...insipration book .this book will touch ur emotion deffinetly

Reviewed in India on 23 August 2018

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This is a best book i ever read before.i feel matching circumtances in my life too..she wrote verry well maner that u will complete this book in one stroke..language is too easy to understand ..tq preeti mam for such beautiful n inspiring book...

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Alisha

Life is actually what you make it!!

Reviewed in India on 25 February 2019

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A beautiful piece written so amazingly that once you start you want to read till the end.
The author has described many issues that everyone faces in their lives.
What I love about the initial part is the 90's plot setting. When there were no mobile phones and how people specially lovers used to communicate. It's just leaves me in awe.
Also the author has described that everyone faces ups and downs, some take it in a positive way and keep moving forward while some think it's the end of the world and choose to commit suicide.
Then there comes the guilt part, the pressure that we face in order to excel in everything and the things we unintentionally do that hurt someone and it keeps on building up and up and one day it drowns us completely.
The author has took up a very important social issue, bipolar depression which has become very common now a days and people still are not willing to talk about it.
But what fascinates me the most is, life is actually what you make it. Because if you've the will to live life to the fullest would it be with somebody's help or without it then nobody can stop you from achieving anything and living a beautiful and amazing life.
#LifeWithPreeti It's been an amazing read for me and I would like to read other books too. Keep writing Preeti mam.
#Lifeiswhatyoumakeit

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PAMPOSH BHAT

Thanks to the author

Reviewed in India on 30 October 2018

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I love you author of the book. This book tells a story of a girl who was happy and high in life and then she broke down with depression and admitted to mental asylum where she fought back and have the courage to comeback to life again . motivational stuff in the book how to fight back the bad times and find the purpose of life.

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Midhun M. 9886016868

prime essence of the book revealed.

Reviewed in India on 6 December 2019

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Just completed reading Preeti Shenoy's Life is What You Make It. A good read.
The title cover of the book says that this is a story of love, hope and how determination can overcome even destiny. However, after reading the book I realized that this is not the prime essence of the story. Of course, there is love, hope and determination in the overall context of the story.

But the main take away to me was this: No matter how high we fly, how great we feel about our capacity, abilities and skill, our life can always take an unexpected turn when we least expect it. Sometimes, what we lack at this point of time is to objectively analyse it and succumbs to the aftermath. In this case, it was a sudden appearance of her mental ailment that went unnoticed and almost took the life of Ankita. It sometimes takes an effort to trust and learn from someone (here Dr. Madhusudhan), and once we embrace it and deeply acknowledges that, we can see numerous choices revealing to ourselves.

Life is not what is ordinarily happening, but what we can see and make out of it when adversities hit us. This is a more meaningful elaboration of the title in context to the story.

Verdict: A good read.

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DMak

Great subject matter

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2016

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4 stars for tackling subject in Indian society where it is still a taboo. For the most part it is done well. That said, i didn't find it an enjoyable book to read especially in the middle when it became very turgid and I thought the author had hit a tunnel but was determined to keep going. I also kept going because I am interested in the subject matter and I wanted to know what happens to the protagonist. Some parts of the book didn't feel authentic but given the subject i guess it would be hard to be completely authentic. I think what it lacked was a sense of humour. Other authors do that well even when tackling difficult subjects.

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Well worth reading as Preeti's description of coping with mental illness is very true...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2017

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Preeti immerses the reader into this young girl's exciting life at college and then takes you on an emotional rollercoaster. Her description's of reaching rock bottom and how medication, talking and art therapy turn life round and give new meaning to life are well written.
I really enjoyed it and will recommend it to my friends

Sushila

A beautiful, inspiring, well written book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2017

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I couldn't put this book down. A story of a very bright girl who suffered from Bipolar. Her courage to get through it was unbelievable. Mental health is a taboo subject all around the world, more so in India but Preeti explored this beautifully. There were tears but mostly there was hope! Credit to the author.

Bijal

Favourite book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2020

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One of my favourite books amazing storyline and great quality

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Love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2016

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So realistic and important message to get across
Thank you to the author for having tackled the issue so well.
Very well written throughout with lots of lovely characters.

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