Pocketful O’ Stories: Micro-tales on Unexpected Moments of Love

by Durjoy Datta

*ITC's Engage, one of India's leading fragrance brands and a segment leader with its pocket perfumes, collaborated with the best-selling romance author of India, Durjoy Datta in an exciting crowd-sourced campaign to invite micro tales that celebrate the unexpected moments of love. The crowd-sourced online campaign, to launch the convenient and innovative pocket-sized Engage ON, received a staggering 11,200 entries within a month. The best micro tales have been compiled - infused with Durjoy's own moments of love - to represent an intriguing journey of playful romance.

Genres: Romance, Short Stories

260 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2019

Reviews

[Hima Halcyon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely book...while reading every little story I fallen in love again and again with this book. I also wrote few love stories from the own experiences after reading this. But, very few stories were repeated. I just love it.

[Sebanti · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve always loved micro tales and when those tales are about sweet moments of love then what can be more enchanting? Absolutely Nothing that’s what .

Small moments of this precious emotion is captured by multitude of Indians and put together in this sweet book by author Durjoy Dutta. I admire Engage and Penguin Publishers for taking this initiative. There are everything, including from the very first moment of meeting between two souls till death do us part. Told from various perspective it comprises both views from a girl’s heart and a boy’s heart.

Honestly I think it is one of the sweetest compilations of romance stories ever. I really enjoyed it. I was a bit hesitant THOUGH at first but all those went away as soon as I read first few pages. So many emotions, love, attraction, crush, like, hurt, betrayal, heartbreak piled inside one small single book. It is hard not to get emotional while reading it.

And guess what? This time I read it while listening to a playlist and that believe me was one of the beat experience of reading this year for me!

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[Kanwarpal Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is collection of 244 tiny tales of romance, twist , love for pet, found love at unusual places and time, love with best friend, love between book lovers, moment of love, love over coffee, love in office, love over drama, love over reading choices, love for music, love for similar taste , phone conversation, long distance relationships, all the silly things childhood romance, arrange cum love marriage, finding love at sports competition, at office , love at first sight, love at coffee chop ,at tapri , at bookstore, at cafe, care fights broken love , twist in tales, love lost and found, meeting over social media, meeting after long time and meeting via friends , at house party at boring pubs, teet-o-tollar , marriage function, star gazing , love on valentine's, found at hospital, at festival celebration, confessions over phone call message and sms , pencils , booknotes , CDs. Millennials love story, old time romance, future couple #couplegoals

[Gillian Gilhooly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Micro tales on love. It’s a fast read but not all the tales are lovey dovey as one would expect based on the blurb.

I felt some tales didn’t need to be a part of the book as they were kinda silly. Moreover there were some grammatical mistakes in the tales, however I do understand that the integrity and sentiment needed to be kept as the tales belong to different people.

A downer for me but an addition to my library.

[Shruti Mazumdar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the micro tales were okay,and some really didn't make any sense.

[Gurpreet Kaur · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

I really like this book, some microtales are so sweet that they touched my heart. Short and full of love.

[Priya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Since it was my life's first microtale stories and it cannot be better.Loved it

[Shriti Chatterjee · Rating 1 out of 5]

These stories are so cringey but as they say Love finds you in the most unexpected and strange places.

[~sun~shine~ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Few of the stories were good.
Some were okay.
Lot were just for the sake of having something.

[Kriti Jagarwal · Rating 5 out of 5]

It contains the prompts hosted by Durjoy Dutta sir.
Also microfiction and twisted small stories.

[Rajesh Vaishnav · Rating 5 out of 5]

Small but meaningful

[Karishma Udit Chhatrapati · Rating 2 out of 5]

Could have been compiled more mindfully... A few stories repeated, some need a little copy edited... A let down for a book that could have the potential of being a collectible...

[Jyotismita Dutta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the compilation. It's is difficult to remember all the stories. But i was giggling so much. Lovedddd the cute 4-5 lined stories ❤

[Anjly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This little book of happiness is so cute!!
Some people might find it a bit clitche but I am that kind of hopeless romantic kinda person so I loved it
Whenver I feel low!! I read a few pages and I am good to go!!
Thank u Durjoy for this wonderful read waiting for part 2 eagerly ❣

[Raj · Rating 2 out of 5]

Repetitive stories, some of them confused, some of them doesn't even make any sense.!!

[Poornima Jha · Rating 3 out of 5]

nice for a coffee table reading. some stories were like unpolished tweets but some very gems.