Archive | October, 2010

Summary
A Search in Secret India is one of the great classics of spiritual travel writing. With a keen eye for detail combined with a generosity of view, Paul Brunton describes his journey round India: living amongst yogis, mystics and gurus, seeking the one who would give him the peace and tranquillity that come with self-knowledge. Set in the pre-independence era (although it continues to be a hot seller), the book pictures India as a vivid land of saints, rishis, fakirs, even some fake ones!
This is not a book…

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Funny, witty and entertaining!
When someone says ‘Indian Authors’  the writers who come to my mind are  Ghosh, Rushdie, Seth and the like. But this book is something completely new(at least to me) and what’s more I was really liked it!
A very simple story- Bala is a Chennai boy with an engineering degree, working in the US. He gets lonely and wants to get married(thus ‘take the plunge’). The first part of the book is about Bala’s childhood, family and the way he was brought up.…

Review by LindyLouMac
Just like my previous review this is an author I have been reading for many years since 1994 in this case, when I read ‘Overtures’ ‘The Broken Gate’ is the first in a trilogy and was published in 2004 but I have only recently managed to get hold of a copy via Bookmooch another great aid for obtaining books as an ex-pat. I will read the next two when they come my way but I will not be actively hunting them down, only because I already have a huge…

Title: Wildthorn
Author: Jane Eagland

Genre: YA Paranormal History
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 06 September 2010
Reviewed by:  Chrizette
Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove longs to break free from her respectable life as a Victorian doctor’s daughter. But her dreams become a nightmare when Louisa is sent to Wildthorn Hall: labeled a lunatic, deprived of her liberty and even her real name. As she unravels the betrayals that led to her incarceration, she realizes there are many kinds of prison. She must be honest with herself – and others…

The Journey of Om by Chandru Bhojwani
The journey of Om is what it truly the tittle suggests the journey the central lead “OM”… The book starts with a scence in which Om is about to surprise his girlfriend on her birthday and is surprised himself to find another man in bed with her… The betrayal of the girlfriend and the break up leaves him shatteredbo
He turns to his friends Mona and Arun for support and turns out that both of them are tied up in problems of their…

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
A book that was recommended by my dear friend D again and again but I somehow could locate only young readers edition where ever I asked… and than one day while shopping with her she found it for me… and I am so glad she did because this one surely has to be one of the best books I have read in the recent past..
Three cups of tea is a true story of a man, a man who starts…

There are three books in the series The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest and I read all three like a mad person… not keeping them down for anything… Finished them in record time and after I finished the series I had Slander withdrawal symptoms
Slander in case u are wondering is the main lead in all three books… “The Girl”… a girl who has had a bad childhood, is under guardian ship and is raped by…

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Melancholic, political, thoughtful and poetic.
The book is about the life of Ka, a poet, his visits to Kars and what happens there. The book is narrated in third person, with the narrator talking directly in a couple of chapters.
You can feel a peace and a melancholy through out the book- what is about to happen is revealed to you- yet you read on, because you don’t want to feel sad without knowing why.
I love the way the author uses Snow to classify poems(albeit…

Review by LindyLouMac

Each chapter is written as episodes in the lives of the characters and it all seems to link together into a relaxing if not a somewhat predictable read. If you have read previous novels by this author you will also enjoy catching up with characters you met earlier and once again visiting the restaurant Quentins, also a title of one of Maeve Binchy’s earlier novels. It doesn’t matter if you are new to this author though as it stands alone easily as well.
It is not a…

Title : I Shall Live – Surviving the Holocaust Against All OddsAuthor : Henry OrensteinPublisher : Beaufort BooksReviewed By : Vibha Sharma
‘I Shall Live’ is a first hand account of a person, Henry Orenstein, who had been through the times before, during and after World War II and what all these dreadful years brought for a Jew. Through this book, the author narrates the chronological happenings of the events – the rise of seemingly mighty Third Reich, its march ahead as if it was indomitable, the intoxicating peak for…