From the writer of bestselling book "Life Is What You Make It", 34 Bubblegums and Candies is a non-fictional compilation of daily happenings and some of the blog posts of author Preeti Shenoy. The first thing that attracts one to the book is its interesting title. The book contains 34 incidents from day to day life, which may and have happened to you and me.But what makes this different is what you gain from it. Preeti Shenoy has revived all those incidents and showed us how ordinary things can teach us life’s biggest lessons. She writes this book from point of view of a daughter, a friend, a wife, and a mother of two. A book like this happens when the author is really critical and has the potential to write something different.

The stories are short and crisp. At the end of every story, the lessons derived from it are described, which are sometimes interesting, sometimes funny and sometimes profound.

“Life is a bit like bubblegum and candies. Sometimes you have to keep on chewing so that you extract whatever you can out of it. At times, the bubble blow bursts unexpectedly and you are left with a sticky mess. Sometimes you like it slowly and relish it. When you greedily bite off more than you can chew or hard boiled sugar candy slips down inadvertently, you bear the pain as it makes its way down the food pipe.”