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Title: Bollywood’s Top 20 Superstars of Indian Cinema
Author: Bhaichand Patel (Editor))
Publisher: Penguin Viking
Pages: 279
Price: Rs 599
Genre: Non Fiction / Film
Rating: 7/10
Source: Review Copy (from Publisher)

If you ask me, my expectations with ‘Bollywood’s Top 20’ were to first find out who all made it to the Top 20, and then discover new facets of their personalities, growth as performers and their cinematic journeys. There are no issues with the essays per se but personally I felt that they were quite on the surface and…

Here, I am attempting to review a classic historical treatise, which has won acclaim for itself from diverse corners of the world. I feel inadequate. To exacerbate my feeling of inadequacy, the fact that it has been more than a month since I finished this 700 page long book looms large over my head. Still, I have now been infected by this incurable urge of expressing my view about any and every book I read. So this post, essentially, is my ‘view‘, not a ‘review‘ of Freedom At Midnight.
History…

Title: Urban Shots- CrossroadsEditor: Ahmed FaiyazPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2012Price INR 195Pages: 217Genre: Contemporary Indian Fiction/Short StoriesRating: 3.5 on 5
Now this is quality stuff. Genuinely. I do not know how many times did I find myself touched and connected and affected by the short stories compiled in this yet another brilliant anthology under the Urban Shots series. I do know, however, that this is one book I will strongly recommend to all book lovers out there, for the 30 stories told by 26 odd authors in this book are…

Title:- Urban shots – CrossroadsAuthor:- 26 different authors. Edited by Ahmed Faiyaz. Written by Paritosh Uttam, Reeti Gadekar, Sharath Komarraju, Malcolm Carvahlo, and a number of popular bloggers and debutant writers. More information here:- http://www.greyoak.in/UrbanShots-Crossroads.htmPublished by:- Grey Oak Publishers, IndiaYear of Publication:- 2012Number of Pages:- 217Genre:- Fiction, Light reading.
Thirty flashes. Thirty incidents that we all have probably been a part of in one way or the other. Twenty six different outlooks. Here’s an album of moments that we overlook while we run around in our daily routines. This book takes…

Title: The Love Collection- Urban ShotsEditor: Sneh ThakurPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2011Pages: 216Price: INR 199Genre: Short stories/Contemporary Indian Fiction
Love is sacred, yet to many lost and caught in this web of society, it remains forbidden. Love is universal, yet to most who devote all their senses to its pursuit, it remains elusive. Love is ethereal, yet it is defeated more often than not by considerations real and pragmatic. Love is love, yet in this one word lies a myriad of emotions ranging from happiness to anger to jealousy to…

Title: Melancholy of Innocence

Author: Raj Doctor
Publisher: Frog Books (Leadstart Publishing)
Pages: 342
Genre: Fiction / Romance / Philosophy
Rating: 7.5/10
Source: Review Copy (from Author / Publisher)

‘Melancholy of Innocence’ in author’s own words is ‘a philo-poetic fable of love set in the late 1920s in Istanbul, just after the political revolution leading to Turkish independence. It is an adolescent’s journey into self discovery about the true meaning of love’.

13 year old Umit has had a normal and happy childhood. His parents had a love marriage, and they…

Title: Hot Tea Across India
Author: Rishad Saam Mehta
Publisher: Tranquebar
Pages: 191
Price: Rs 195
Genre: Non Fiction / Travel
Rating: 7.5/10
Source: Review Copy (from Publisher)

‘Hot Tea Across India’ is a collection of experiences put together by travel writer Rishad Saam Mehta, from his many road trips across India. The stories are not in any particular order or about any one particular journey. The chapters – some really entertaining, some interesting while a few inconsequential – are independent of each other. ‘Tea’ acts as the common element in all these stories,…

Emma Montgomery hasn’t been sleeping well. She has gruesome nightmares, and when she wakes up, she isn’t where she was when she fell asleep. And she’s not the only one. Many of the students at Saint Opportuna High are having nightmares and sleepwalking too. When teenagers start turning up dead, Emma and her friends start to wonder if they might have had anything to do with the deaths. They need to stick together to keep themselves awake…and to figure out what’s causing them to kill in their sleep. (From Amazon.ca)This…

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Doug Lee is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it’s just not the same. Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for her—hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high…

Paperback: 417 pages
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Hodder 2006
Source: Unknown on my bookshelves since 2006.
First Sentence : ‘I was six years old the first time I disappeared.’
Review Quote : ‘Gripping read …never slips into straightforwardly familiar territory and successfully avoids being overly sentimental’ Guardian
My Opinion: I was not impressed. As I have more titles by Jodi Picoult on my TBR shelves than by any other author I decided it was time I read another one of her books as I have not done so for a couple…