Archive | June, 2010

 
Book Review by LindyLouMac
“March” tells the story of John March, known to lots of us  as the absent father  in “Little Women”, Louisa May Alcott’s classic American novel.I would normally avoid novels like this one, where the author has taken a character or characters from someone else’s novel and creates another novel around them.It always feels to me like they are sort of cheating. What do you think? Is this a reasonable thing to do with someone else’s original work? Despite my reservations on this method of creating a…

“I don’t want to be just a health worker. I want to be such a woman that I can start a hospital and be an executive, and look over all the health problems of all the women in Braldu. I want to become a very famous woman of this area” says Jahan. Jahan is a girl who was lucky enough to get benefited from one of the schools that Dr. Greg Mortenson built in the Korphe village of Baltistan that is situated south west of the K2 peak and the…

Book Review by Deepak Adhikari
Explaining the significance of storytelling, Anant Nath, the managing editor of The Caravan, a narrative journalism magazine from India, invokes the celebrated Iranian storyteller Scheherazade in its recent re-launch issue. He writes: “The greatest storyteller of all was Scheherazade, legendary Persian queen and narrator of One Hundred and One Nights. The title refers to the thousand and one nights that Scheherazade kept telling stories to the Persian king Shahryar — who would marry a virgin every day only to have her beheaded the next —…

Book Review by SrikMidas Touch! Every one of us would like to lead our life in the ‘Midas touch’ way isn’t it? We always look forward to see Success in our lives. And that success makes you an Outlier!

Outliers was so outstanding that I read the full book in four sittings in two days. The author who already had two of his bestselling books in the market: ‘The Tipping Point’ and ‘Blink’ – Malcolm Gladwell has put in his heart and soul in his latest work Outliers. This is a book about Outliers, about men and women…

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Pure delight. Brilliant, poignant and beautiful.
There is something about Indian authors which I like- the maturity in their writing, the raw emotions and sharp images and the unfailing indigenous love and attachment to the land and to its people- related or not.
The author talks about the relationship between a father and a son. The book is divided into four parts- Arrival, Departure , Terminal and Travelogue. The first part talks about the various ‘arrivals’ , the second about good byes, the third sees the narrator…

Book Review by LindyLouMac
This is Nick Hornby writing at his sharp and amusing best, I was laughing from page one with the very first sentence. ‘They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet’  They being the protagonists of the novel Duncan and Annie an odd couple indeed. Living in a nondescript northern seaside town which seems just about as dull as their relationship. Annie is waking up to the fact that she has just wasted the last fifteen years of her life with a man whose…

Hidden and Imminent DangersAuthor: D W Hardin This is a book that was received and reviewed through special request from the author. I had not heard of it before, but the premise seemed really interesting and I was looking forward to reading it. Being addicted to medical thrillers by Robin Cook, it has been a long time since I touched this genre again.
The story starts off slow and you see general workings of a hospital. Not before long, there is whiff of danger in the air. A young man…

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Review by SmithaI have been a big fan of Marian Keyes since I read her ‘ Anybody Out There’. ‘Lucy Sullivan is getting married’ is a regular chick-lit with all the elements in place. Lucy Sullivan works in a boring office, in London. Her work mates persuade her to come with them to see a psychic. Lucy goes, despite being bankrupt and having no faith in fortune tellers. The psychic tells her that she sees marriage for her in the not too far off future, with someone who is not…

Review by Bedazzled

A magician once beheaded a newly wed couple.He then put the man’s head on the woman’s body and the woman’s head on the man’s body.Who is the husband now? and who is the wife?.
What is an aberration and what isn’t?.Just because a human mind can’t comprehend certain things,does it mean that it is unnatural ?
Who decides what is dharma and what isn’t?.Why is it that a woman,even if she is the rightful queen not allowed to rule and merely considered a figurehead just because she…