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Dear Diary! They say books are your best friends. Perhaps that is why I have few human friends, because I love reading books. When I was a five-year-old, I remember papa gifted me a Barbie doll; along with it was a tiny book – with other Barbie dolls. That was my first book, the one I still have. From there began my friendship with dear books. My colleagues at school often tease me that though grown up I am so crazy about dolls and books on them. Hardly does anyone know I have a secret love for romance books too. The Fault in Our Stars is my favourite. I imagine myself as a 16-year-old Hazel and wonder if ever my Augustus will come. Neither at school nor at college is anyone who sees me that way. I feel sad and try to move on – same as the protagonists in my reads. I wish I could in fact write a book someday. If not in real, maybe how I imagine my Prince Charming can be a story. I have heard book publishing world has gone rather easy, though I wonder if I could only get

Many people wonder if the genre of a book, especially coffee table book, is required. Why can’t there be simply books? Well, if you are not much into books, then better let go of this. But if you are a book lover, then genres are vital. And if you want to read the greatest coffee table books , then genres become more vital. Every person is not the same so the books need to be divided into various genres, then why not a coffee table book. The name itself gives an imagination of chilling out with a cup of coffee on a comfortable coffee-table, reading a book at leisure… Romance for love birds, science fiction for science lovers, voyage for travellers and biographies and autobiographies for inspiration seekers. When you get into a bookstore, it helps you holding the book of your interest in your hands. Because, if you have no interest in romance and in your hand comes a famous love story, we are pretty sure that your love for the books could start flickering that very moment. Same w

While today there hardly are people who love to read handheld books, all thanks to the many gadgets we can read on, coffee table books are still something that grab our attention. We buy them or not, we are sure to flip a few pages and admire these head-turners, quite many of which come from book publishers in India . Although coffee table book is a name buzzing around for more than a decade now, there's a something in these beauties that attract us. What could be it? The hidden child loves it! Remember how we loved flipping throughout picture books, even when we had no clue of alphabets? Well, it still is that same child within us that loves coffee table books. Simply flipping through those smooth pages, with beautiful pictures, those classic fonts is a soothe. What more! These books give some additional information too. Now can we deny it? Class interiors! When the first coffee table book came out in the early 20th century, only the rich could afford it. Though buying pow