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Have you always wondered what kind of an “animal” your boss really was and have racked your brains to find some way to tackle “it” effectively? Have you wondered about the “actual” motives of the organization you work for and how the vision and mission statements flouted so grandly by your organization conceals it’s actual intentions? Well,Vijay Nair’s irreverent,yet funny book “The boss is not your friend” might be right up your alley and just as might help you figure some answers.
Drawing richly from his career and his engagements…

I remember a few bloggers reviewing Manju Kapur’s books positively and had wanted to pick something up by her for the longest time. My library had a couple of books by her and for some strange reason I was attracted to this book.Guess it had something to do with the fact that I was intrigued by the storyline- about a relationship an older woman has with a younger one and wanted to see how the subject’s been handled by an Indian writer.

Astha is a middle class woman ,who lives…

My last Murakami outing was a Surreal book,After Dark .But,I loved it to bits. That prompted me to pick this book up. Blind Willow,sleeping woman is a collection of short stories ,that has gone on to garner rave reviews. There are very few books that are exhilarating and depressing at the same time. Murakami’s writing somehow manages to be both.After the first few stories,I wondered why the book was so critically acclaimed. After all, the writing didn’t seem very proficient,being loaded with superfluous similes, metaphors and dark philosophical undertones .…

I’ve been following Parul Sharma’s blog for a while now and I have to admit that I love her style of writing.Her first book, Bringing up Vasu was promptly devoured in a few hours and left me waiting for her next book. I was excited when Friends of books let me have a review copy of her second book, By the water Cooler.
Mini and Tanya have let go of their jobs in an ad agency and have joined JR enterprises to take their careers to the next level.Little do…

To me a book is a window into possibilities, people and customs that exist elsewhere –something that I would never have had an opportunity to knowing otherwise. So, when Rosy Thornton mailed me about reviewing her book, The Tapestry of Love, I was thrilled. I had never read a book based in the French countryside before.I fell in love with the book right from the minute I opened the package and set my eyes on the cover of the book: An old door painted white with splotches of greenery around…

“Of all the people we meet in a lifetime, it is strange that so many of us find ourselves in thrall to one particular person.Once that face is seen ,an involuntary heartache sets in for which there is no cure.All the wonder of this world finds shape in that one person and thereafter there is no reprieve ,because this kind of love does not end,or not until death.
For the lucky ones,this love is reciprocated. But for so many others everywhere,anywhere,there follows an unending ache of longing without relief.Incurable love…

The other side of the story by Marian Keyes has to be among the chunkiest books I have read in the recent past. I don’t think I quite understand the concept of a chick-lit running upto 600+ pages. But ,having finished the book,I feel that it was definitely worth it.My previous Marian Keyes outings haven’t been anything to write home about. The brightest star in the sky had quite simply ruptured few of my brain cells in boredom.Angels was marginally better,but definitely not what I had expected it to be.…

Before i picked up The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, i really wondered what a potato peel pie was.After reading the book,i know that it would probably be quirky but yummy-somewhat like the book itself.
The year is 1946. The Place-London.Juliet Ashton is an author who tastes success with her book(collected works of the columns she wrote for a paper during the war). However, she runs into a roadblock and can’t think of any new ideas for a new book.At this…

Finally,after years of dilly-dallying,i managed to read Murakami. I don’t really know if i am a fan of his writing yet ,but i have to accept that i am slightly rattled. After Dark is a deeply dark novel about a bunch of people and the things that happen to them in a span of 7 hours of the night.
Mari sips her coffee in a diner and has a book for company.Soon, a young musician joins her and they realise that they are acquainted through Mari’s sister,Eri. After the young…

The pink coloured cover of this book with a picture of a woman in a spaghetti top ,stilettos and yoga pants sitting in a yoga pose clutching a handbag somehow almost screams “Don’t take me seriously!.”But Lucy Edge’s travel memoir is not as flippant as you would think it would be.Lucy,a disenchanted Londoner,who works for a huge ad agency is tired of coming up with ideas to sell margarine.She decides to travel to India in search of enlightenment and a perfect headstand.I know what you are thinking..Sounds like a copy-cat…