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Lakshmi Menon

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Kerala, India

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Literature & Fiction, Children's Books, Travel

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August 2011

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I have been writing since my teenage days. So far I have published 4 novels - The Second Choice, Cherished,Before the Sunset and Vanished Girl. I have also contributed to 3 anthologies.
Apart from writing and reading, I also enjoy travel and explore new places, as and when time permits. I also enjoy writing about some of those travels as blog posts and travel guides.
Presently, I am busy with writing a children's book and a travel book.

I love meeting other writers and getting connected.

I have also written a novel in Malayalam - Veendum yaatra, which was published as a serial novel years ago in a popular magazine, and I have recently got it published as a book.
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Average rating: 3.99 · 123 ratings · 35 reviews · 27 distinct works

	The Second Choice 3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cherished 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet & Sour - 1: A Collection of 10 stories 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before the Sunset 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanished Girl 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Mini's Little World 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My new novel - Vanished Girl

My latest novel titled "Vanished Girl", published by Quintus, a reprint of Roman Books, is out in the market. It is a suspense novel and I hope you all will enjoy reading it.

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No matter what happens, Akila has to reach home in Kerala to have a glimpse of her dying father before he leaves this world. She boards a night train from Bangalore and lets her younger brother know of her Read more of this blog post »

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Rusty Goes to London

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“Misunderstanding is one of the worst of ill feelings which can spoil many lives.”
― Lakshmi Menon

tags: emotions-and-attitude, misunderstanding

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“When you’re angry you act according to your emotions, not with your mind.”
― Lakshmi Menon

tags: anger-and-attitude, emotions, mind

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“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

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“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: compassion, empathy

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