Archive | June, 2012

Interview with an author who don’t need any introduction- Sudeep Nagarkar- Bestselling Author of two novels “Few Things Left Unsaid” and “That’s the way we met”:
1. When your first book- Few Things Left Unsaid came out, what was the reaction of people around you- Parents, friends, neighbours, relatives etc?
A : Is it yours? You must be kidding? Don’t tell me? Now you have something new! It went on for couple of weeks and then they had no other option but to accept that its written by me. They…

Title: Scenes from an Impending Marriage: A Prenuptial Memoir
Author: Adrian Tomine
Publisher: Faber and Faber UK
ISBN: 978-0-571-27770-4
Genre: Graphic Fiction
Pages: 54
Source: Publisher
Rating: 4/5
I am a great fan of Adrian Tomine’s works. From Shortcomings to Optic Nerve (his graphic magazine so to say) to Summer Blonde, I have read most of his graphic fiction and I can say without doubt that he is very good at his craft. From the drawings to the story, nothing seems out of place for the reader. So it was…

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Book Summary of Restart: An Architect’s Journey to the Parliament House:

Pain of losing, hurts and messing up things, big time started becoming a regular chapter of Aditya’s life, which started as a successful process in his architectural career and slowly started fading until he faces the toughest moments of life, and starts thinking differently. Will this change in his realizations and attitude bring him luck? Will he be able to restart? Will he get back what he had one day? Will his lost fortune again…

Interview with the author- Ishaan Lalit who has penned “The Bracelet” and the upcoming one-”Hexagon”.
1. When your first book- The Bracelet came out, what was the reaction of people around you- Parents, children, friends, neighbours, relatives etc?
My mom was astonished that I could sit down and write a whole book. My wife was very supportive. She and my brother knew how hard I was working on The Bracelet. My friends still look at me in disbelief when I talk to them about my books. My neighbors, well they…

Interview with the author- Ritu Lalit, who has penned two books: “A bowful of Butterflies” and upcoming- “Hilawi”.
1. When your first book- A Bowful of Butterflies came out, what was the reaction of people around you- Parents, children, friends, neighbours, relatives etc?
A lot of them were not as surprised as I was. Apparently as a kid, I had told people that I would write my own novel. An uncle said, “You are a voracious reader, so it was just a matter of time that you would write your…

Finally completed reading Expression Publication’s published Bhavya Sharma’s “Life Unplugged”. The book has an extremely attractive cover page having the tags of every thing that the book contains in its story line. Bhavya Sharma’s picture is enough for the girls to pick up the books while browsing the books in bookstore. Today itself, Bhavya Sharma is celebrating his 22nd birthday. A Very Happy birthday to you, sir from ARB and its readers. We hope that you will keep writing entertaining stories and entertain until your fingers stop you to do…

When Alex falls for the charming new boy at school, Cole — a handsome, funny, sports star who adores her — she can’t believe she’s finally found her soul mate . . . someone who truly loves and understands her. At first, Alex is blissfully happy. Sure, Cole seems a little jealous of her relationship with her close friend Zack, but what guy would want his girlfriend spending all her time with another boy? As the months pass, though, Alex can no longer ignore Cole’s small put-downs, pinches, or increasingly…

Zero Percentile- Missed IIT Kissed Russia (Read its review by me HERE) was finished by me exactly 24 hours ago. And it made me wake up for the whole night of 26th June. And I started its sequel “Zero Percentile 2.0- Missed IIT Kissed Gurgaon” last night and it made me wake for this whole night again. Very lovingly, after thinking a lot after completing the first part, I settled with 4.4 which seems to be so much analyzed and studied. And when you rate a book so high, its…

Whenever you see any paperback format of any 200-230 pages book by an Indian author, you term it as “chick-lit” without giving a thought of trying some of them to give an analyzed judgment to your statement. But still there are readers who are interested in reading the ordinary Love Stories by Indian authors as they find it familiar to theirs. Recently, I picked a National Bestseller book named “Zero Percentile” with a tagline of “Missed IIT Kissed Russia”. For once I thought that it’s a Love story but I…

Title: Lovers
Author: Daniel Arsand
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 978-1609-450717
Genre: Literary Fiction
Pages: 144
Rating: 5/5
“Lovers” by Daniel Arsand is set in 18th Century France. It is a love story. A love story that is doomed from the very beginning. It is between two men. A forbidden love, that needs to be destroyed. A love which cannot exist – for the people or for the King. A love story between a French Nobleman, Balthazar and Sebastien, a beautiful and magical adolescent. Theirs is an all-encompassing love affair that…