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From Twinkle, with Love
by Sandhya Menon
From Twinkle, with Love is a perfect summerread. It is cute and fluffy, but not much more than that, even though I enjoyed reading it.
There are several things that bothered me while I read it, and I feel like the book could've been so much better if it was flushed out more.
First, the making of the film. Besides googling female directors, it looks like the author didn't look into the process of film making. Making a film in about 26 days, while also having to attend classes? That just is not possible. You have to think about an idea, write and the script, hold castings, film all the scenes, edit the scenes, watch the film and edit it again and it goes on and on like that. For the fact that Twinkle wants to be a filmmaker so badly, it is really dissapointing not more attention was paid to this process.
I liked that the book was in journal form, but why the texts between Sahil and his friends? Now, as a reader, you already find out about Sahil's crush on page 25. Twinkle also already seems to fall for him after they only spoke about two times. And then the whole thing that she solely wants to date Neil cause he is hot and cause he can make her popular? The whole thing just didn't work for me. So much more could've been done with the emails as well. A big deal is made of out it, while they only exchanged a few emails.
There are several things that bothered me while I read it, and I feel like the book could've been so much better if it was flushed out more.
First, the making of the film. Besides googling female directors, it looks like the author didn't look into the process of film making. Making a film in about 26 days, while also having to attend classes? That just is not possible. You have to think about an idea, write and the script, hold castings, film all the scenes, edit the scenes, watch the film and edit it again and it goes on and on like that. For the fact that Twinkle wants to be a filmmaker so badly, it is really dissapointing not more attention was paid to this process.
I liked that the book was in journal form, but why the texts between Sahil and his friends? Now, as a reader, you already find out about Sahil's crush on page 25. Twinkle also already seems to fall for him after they only spoke about two times. And then the whole thing that she solely wants to date Neil cause he is hot and cause he can make her popular? The whole thing just didn't work for me. So much more could've been done with the emails as well. A big deal is made of out it, while they only exchanged a few emails.