Archive | June, 2011

Shifting Passions
by Xakara
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Published February 26th 2008 by Samhain Publishing, Ltd.

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When best friends and half-blooded Shape-Shifters Nathan and Lena go from friends to lovers and back over a summer, they set the groundwork for dreams and fantasies that will plague them both even three years after their fling has ended.Nathan’s lover during that three years is Armand, another Half-Therian who has had his fill of poly relationships in the past. But watching them together, Armand is pulled into…

Author: Upneet Grover
Publisher: Cedar Books

Vineet was an average engineer at an IT firm. His office sucked the life out of him making him hate every moment he spent there. Cricket was his passion, a passion which he never had the guts to pursue until fate bestowed upon him an opportunity which would change his life forever. Shrugging off a sparkling career – as a management consultant – that lay ahead, this rubber ball stroking bloke embarks upon the most mercurial excursion to fulfill his dream of donning the…

1945: A German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajökull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness.1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajökull…

Italy in Books – Reading Challenge 2011

Paperback: 492 pages
Genre: Romantic Fiction
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services 2010 and Good to go Press 2011
Source: eBook provided by the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
Review Quote: “A wonderful debut novel by a talented writer. Nell Dixon, author of “Animal Instincts”
A Favourite Quote: “The role that ancient mythology has in modern fiction is little appreciated, but nonetheless undeniable. All modern themes are merely re-workings of ancient tales and have been told around the fire since time…

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: labelled 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 – in order to be set free. And love may be the key… (From Amazon.ca)I could not help but feel so angry…

Paperback: 242 pages

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Tindal Street Press 2007, this edition 2008

Review Quote: ‘Part ghost story and part mystery, What Was Lost is an enthralling tale of a little girl lost, wrapped in a portrait of a changing community over two decades’ The Observer.

My Opinion: Gripping and mysterious.

Awards: Costa First Novel 2007, Galaxy British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2008, Long listed for Man Booker Prize 2007

A double narrative that moves back and forth between the present and the past whilst revealing to us…

THE GROANING SHELFand other instances of book loveWritten by Pradeep SebastianPublished by Hachette India.
Reviewed by sandhya.
Pradeep Sebastian is a literary columnist for many publications, including The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Businessworld, The Caravan, Tehelka, and many more. Many of the essays in this book have appeared in one or more of these publications, and potray his formidable literary journey.
This is a book about books and about love for books and reading. There are many aspects to it that the book discusses.
One of these is the actual collecting…

Title: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering EverythingAuthor: Joshua FoerPublisher: Allen Lane, Penguin BooksISBN: 978-1846140297Genre: Non-FictionPP: 320 pagesPrice: £14.99Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
I wasn’t expecting great things from this book, since I’m the kind of person who tends to abandon popular science titles halfway through. But it gripped me from the start, probably because the facts are assembled along the spine of a well-written and absorbing narrative of self-discovery.
When science journalist Foer covers the US Memory Championship he’s torn between wonder and pity for the socially challenged,…

Two Thumbs Up!

I have been reading about this book in the blogosphere and even discovered that the author had a book reading @ Crossword – which I missed due to prior commitments. So, when I finally managed to go to Crossword (quite by chance) – I started looking for a copy… and found it too. I read the back cover and then began flipping through the pages. On page 11 itself I came across “Roko, hum idhar girega.” This is classic Hingali – meaning that the said person wants…

Author: Suresh Taneja
Publisher: Frog Books

It was the most unusual vacation for Vikram, Yuvika, Manisha and Akshay – the G4, as they called themselves. In the first few days of the vacations, they experienced some shocking incidents of declining moral values and corruption. These completely shook them up when they understood the implications. They dreaded the thought of being labelled as citizens of a corrupt country. G4 found this deplorable and decided to plunge into action. They had two weeks of vacation, which they productively used to start an…