by Jeffry Archer
Its not a novel but a collection of short-stories that has become one of the best-sellers in India in the last few weeks. The reason? It has an Indian story in it too and has got a lot of print ! An excerpt from the Hindustan Times reads “The collection is about my experience during the past six years, out of which the story of an Indian couple is the most fascinating and touched me the most.” As the name suggests, the story is about inter-caste marriage…
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Arguably one of the most influential modern day philosophers, Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I was fascinated to read about his own life and some very liberal views on piracy !
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An interesting teenager story of Paulo Coelho goes that he told his mother that he wanted to become a writer. His mother’s response was “My dear, your father is an Engineer. He’s a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the…
Translated from the original Tamil (‘Irandaam Jaamathin Kadhai’) by Lakshmi Holmstrom
Book review by Priya Arun
‘The hour past midnight’ is a story about women. Not the educated, emancipated and economically independent city-dwelling women like us, but about those women who’re still, in this time and age, shackled to their homes and hearth, by notions of religion, by society and sometimes, by themselves. It’s a poignant narrative of the lives of the women in a small south Indian town, of their everyday struggles and worries, of relationships, of love and…
Book Review by LindyLouMacI have really been looking forward to this latest novel from Christine Coleman for some time now, especially as I knew that I was going to be visiting Hong Kong and Lamma Island myself earlier this year. I was at first a little disappointed that it was not in fact launched until after my return. I had been hoping to read this before travelling to Hong Kong as an insight into the places I was to be seeing shortly. One of the pleasures of reading for me is…
Reviewed by Sumana@http://bookswithcoffee.wordpress.com/
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One woman, one man, one shared fate…
A remote cottage on the wild coast of Cornwall sounded to Blythe Barton Stowe like the perfect escape from the pain and humiliation of recent events in her Hollywood life. But soon she seems to be reliving a centuries-old tragedy, and the handsome owner of the shabby manor house on the hill appears vitally entwined in her destiny. As they unearth one shocking family secret after another, Blythe is forced to conclude that her intriguing neighbor is more…
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Book Review reposted with permission from Abhinav
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
As is written on the cover of the book ,”Lance Armstrong’s Story is the stuff of legends.”
When a healthy man who has been wining races is suddenly informed that he is suffering from testicular cancer his life gets shattered.Especially if you are diagnosed of tumors…
Book Review reposted with permission from Vishesh.
Well rhetoric is an Indian right. Exaggeration and stories are the India intelligentsia’s right. Coming up with absurd ideas and becoming a best-seller is a well a best-sellers right?
An enjoyable book. How screwed can you think anyway? His English is good- at least that’s a concession in my case, for reading the book, after all English is supposedly dead. The previous post, had a few shades of his style I guess(without the undesirable parts, I guess ).
History redefined. The book talks…
Book Reviewed by Girl.
Enough cannot be said about this book! This has to be, hands down, one of my favourites ever!
DON’T PANIC!
The story begins one murky, thursday afternoon when Arthur Dent finds out that his house is being demolished to make way for a new bypass. As he is lying down in the mud in front of the bulldozers (protesting that he was not made aware of this until yesterday when he went down to the planning…
Lovereading – Books of the Decade
Your chance to see and find out more about the Books of the Decade as voted for by you? Well I voted and am pleased to be able to share the results here with you.
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I can never forget a few people and incidents in my life:
1) My first crush, who gave me heartaches for almost eight years
2) my stupid friend who stole away my first boyfriend
3) that same stupid friend who dumped him and became my friend
4) my neighbor who would relentlessly ask for Dhahi or Shakkar
5) my bench mate who used to sleep under the bench while I guarded her.
6) Those endless fights with my auto mates
7) The embarassing fight with my cabmates to show who is…
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