Archive | July, 2011

Fast paced, filled with plenty of high-octane action and incredible twists and turns, Haunted is one action-thriller guaranteed to give an adrenaline rush. Douglas Misquita, Jr. has impressed and how!
Don’t be mislead by the title, this book has nothing to do with the denizens of the spirit world or the afterlife, and the author – Douglas Misquita – is very much Indian *smile*
Action-thriller is one of my favourite genres and needless to say, I was more than glad when I won an author signed copy. There is nothing…

Author: Ismita Tandon Dhankher
Publisher: Penguin India Metro Reads

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Newly-wed Sancha is excited about sailing with her husband, an officer in the merchant navy, on board the Sea Hyena. But Chief Officer Aaron Andrews is keeping a secret from his wife—a month before she arrived, the chief cook was found dead in the meat locker, his death ruled an accident. First Engineer Harsh Castillo is enamoured of his best friend Aaron’s bride, but that’s the least of his problems. The demons he’s battling have a…

Title : The Economics of Ego Surplus
Author : Paul McDonnold
Publisher : Starving Analyst Press
ISBN : 978-0-9829038-0-3

I received the review copy of this book a month back but the only reason I kept postponing picking this book up to read was the uninviting title page of the book which looked very drab and dreary. But once I started reading it, I felt too bad for the book as the cover page does not convey even the smallest fraction of the power packed story that is between the…

The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon is a beautiful, heart rendering and compelling story of love, survival and the brutal face of humanity. Through 340 pages of the novel, the author takes you through an extraordinary story spanning over 43 years. It all started on a stormy night and changed the course of four lives forever.

Synopsis:
On a stormy night in small-town America, a couple, desperate and soaked to the skin, knock on a stranger’s door. When Martha, a retired school teacher living a safe and conventional life,…

Intricate, detailed and beautiful.
The details they hit you, they tickle you and they mesmerize you. The book is like that statue which holds your breath and makes you forget yourself. Yet there is something lacking- the warmth, that which makes you curl up in your bed and forget everything else, except the tranquilizing world of the book. The problem is with expectations, Ghosh to me is not merely an author- he is a writer, he is a storyteller; He is that boy, that uncle, that aged R who you…

Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin’s orders, to dig for beets and fight…

Italy in Books – Reading Challenge 2011

The July post with a list of books that the other people taking part are reading this month has already been posted. July ReviewsBeyond The Pasta is so much more than just another Italian cookery book as besides providing great recipes Mark writes a diary about his trip to Italy to learn authentic Italian cooking. The added wow factor for me was not just that it is set in Italy but in our region of Viterbo. I loved all the local recipes, some…

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A Poem for CRYFavourite poems of famous IndiansCompiled and edited by Avanti Maluste and Sudeep DoshiPublished by Viking: Penguin GroupForeword by Amartya Sen
Reviewed by sandhya.
Human emotion can be a tricky thing. At once overwhelming and finely nuanced, it is a slippery being. It becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to express what one wants to say, what one is feeling. Sometimes one does not want to express one’s feelings, but just clarify, validate, what something nebulous that one feels is. Sometmes one is in search of that perfect punch…

It is recommended you read Incarceron before jumping into Sapphique. HEAVILY recommended. I’m not even sure if it’s possible to read this one before Incarceron. You’ll just end up being more confused.Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of Incarceron, but its memory torments him, because his brother Keiro is still inside. Outside, Claudia insists he must be king, but Finn doubts even his own identity. Is he the lost prince Giles? Or are his memories no more than another construct of his imprisonment? And can you be free…

Stolen Destiny
by Gabrielle Bisset

Published June 29th 2011 by Siren Publishing

Released from Nil to find a murderer, a prison-hardened Varek Leale is convinced no woman deserves the man he’s become, but his Aeveren destiny makes him succumb to sweet and sexy Callia Reynolds. To catch the murderer, they turn to Amon Kalins, an ancient Aeveren with the power to control time. But Amon isn’t a man to trifle with and when he wants something, he’ll use his considerable powers, devastating charm, and good looks to get it.What Amon…