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All these years, I haven’t been a great fan of silly thriller novels and for the same reason hadn’t felt the necessity of going through any of Koontz’s earlier ones like ‘The face’ or ‘False Memory’.But the cover of this one, made be choose this one during my recent visit to the local library.I expected this one…

Title-The Splendor of SilenceAuthor-Indu SundaresanGenre-A NovelHardcover, 416 pagesPublished September 12th 2006 by AtriaISBN-0743283678 (ISBN13: 9780743283670)
The Splendor of Silence
On a fateful May morning in the year 1942 Captain Sam Hawthrone arrived at Rudrakot on a personal mission. However, destiny had other plans for him. It is fascinating to see the fabric of interwoven destinies play a tale of forbidden love. This is a story of Sam and Mila the daughter of the local political agent. It is a story of four days which last a life time.
The novel…

Couple of days back Prats made a flying visit to my house to drop the review copies of Urban Shots and Another Chance, it was really sweet of him considering I would have bought Urban Shots 100% anyways as his story was published in it and this much atleast we can do for a friend right So after he went, N grabbed the book from my hand and reached to Prats story titled “Of Apple Pies and Grey Sweaters” and when he finished it just came and said wow this…

Title : Holy Cow : An Indian Adventure
Author : Sarah MacDonald
Publisher : Random House
ISBN : 978-0-553-81601-3

Reviewed by Vibha Sharma

Twenty one years old Sarah MacDonald visits India and to say the least she simply hates her experience in the country and vows never to step her foot on this land again. But destiny does bring her back after 11 years, making an Indian beggar’s prophecy correct about her. This time she comes to India leaving her dream job in Sydney for the love of her life,…

I thought this book was good! I was expecting the book to be with more paranormal qualities. The cover was a bit deceiving in that aspect. However! I think the book is still worth the read!The plot has all the makings of a great fairy tale and there is a good amount of mystery and intrigue to keep you guessing. There is a neat little twist in the end of the book which I wasn’t expecting and I enjoyed the ending. The characters are all right and Honey happens to…

reviewed by nikhimenon
                                        Chetan Bhagat is undoubtedly the most popular english writer of the country.His books are mostly light hearted-easy read kind of stuff which has attributed to his great success.(probably ,this might have prompted the writer to come up with his fourth book,hardly a year after the release of his last one.!)Anyways if i am asked to rate his 3 previous books on a scale of ten, i would give his first one Five point someone -seven ,the second-One night @call centre (which was later made into a…

 Funny in Parts…!
reviewed by nikhimenon

             The Chetan Bhagat effect in the Indian publishing industry is undeniable.He inspired quite a number of men and women to write on ‘the young urban educated Indian’ in simple(often plain) language. Even the international publishing giant,Penguin started a new line of low prized books,aimed solely at the masses(or the ‘new readers’). Most of the popular bloggers(Amit Verma,Sidin Vadukut,Arnab Ray,Meenakshy Reddy Madhavan et al) turned authors overnight evoking mixed responses.As Mr Surender Mohan Pathak, the grandmaster of Hindi crime fiction rightly said in an…

Mediocre,but racy!
reviewed by nikhimenon

Set in the mid 80 s, Abhijit Bhaduri’s Married but Available’ (a sequel to his ‘Mediocre but Arrogant‘ which was set in a B school campus) tells the story of twenty something Abbey who is a fresh graduate from one of the fancy B schools of the Country.The misadventures in the first decade of young Abbey’s working life is what this book is all about.To spice up the proceedings a bit,Abhijit also throws in a ‘broken marriage’ angle(which i think was the worst part of…

Title : The Giver
Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN : 978-0-00-726351-6

This is a story of a young lad Jonas, who is eleven now and is quite apprehensive about the upcoming ceremony where all Twelves of the community will be assigned an occupation, a job, a position in the community. Jonas is a member of a ‘perfect’ community where everything is same, in order, under control, as per the rules in the great rule book – the only book accessible to people of the community. The…

I love, love , love “Sherlock Holmes” by Conan Doyle !! Now , what if a huge Holmes fan like me gets his chance to solve a mystery just like Sherlock Holmes did ???
Well, that’s what Harold White got to do in “The Sherlockian” as he attends his first official meeting of the Backstreet Irregulars, a private membership of those individuals who have an deep interest in all things involving Sherlock Holmes. The holy grail of all the members is the elusive diary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which…