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As the name suggests, a Paper Town is a non-existent, phantom and fake town, as if made of paper. The literal meaning of the term ‘Paper Town’ refers to a metaphorical name given to a fake place that has been embedded in a map by the map’s creator, in order to protect the copyright for their map. Sometimes these are called as the ‘copyright traps’. People and companies that create or design maps, typically insert one or multiple Paper Towns in their maps, so that if someone steals, copies or plagiarizes their map, they will be instantly caught, because, a Paper Town has no real existence after all. This novel, Paper Towns by John Green, brings into action, an animating storyscape set forth in a town zigzagging along the city streets of Florida and featuring a bunch of interesting characters, primarily a batch of school-going teenyboppers studying in Winter Park High School and about to finish their school years. The novel is an invigorating work of fiction, mainly combining the themes

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Every mystery has a beginning and an end. And every mystery leads to the end of some or the other search. While some mysteries lead to the hunt of a treasure or a secret, some others lead to an understanding or a realization, an insight or an observation. In the same vein, some mysteries lead to the unfolding and revelation of something which causes us to wonder and wish, that it’d have been better if the pandora’s box of this mystery would have remained locked shut forever…because to glare at the revealed discovery, is probably too astronomical an appearance to assimilate all at once. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larrson too is one of those mysteries that is as spine-chilling as intensely appaling. It is a heart-thumping jigsaw puzzle sketched from a labyrinthine storyline of several interlinked mysteries, revolving mainly around the lives of the characters Mikael Blomkvist (a journalist and part editor

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Death. Imagine what if death was a person. And this person could speak. Imagine if you could hear it speak, and all of a sudden, it opened its mouth and began narrating to you, a story about a girl; a girl who was a thief, a thief who stole books… The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, is a historical fiction novel. The novel is written in a third-person narrative. But even more interesting an aspect about this narrative is its narrator. The narrator here, is not a human. Rather, the narrator is ‘death’. Yes! In this novel, the narrator is none other than the character of Death. Death narrates the story of a girl named Liesel Meminger. But the story is not only about this girl who relishes words and steals books. The story is also about a small street called Himmel Street, in a small town of Germany, precisely during the rule of Adolf Hitler, the Führer. The story is also about the people and the children and the families living in the boxl