Tag Archives: Biography

Title: Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Random House UK
ISBN: 978-0-224-09352-1
Genre: Graphic Novel
Pages: 289
Source: Publisher
Rating: 5/5
When Alison Bechdel wrote, “Fun Home”, a graphic novel about her closeted gay father and her relationship with him, it was received with great aplomb. Critics loved it and so did the regular readers. I read it last month and was in absolute love with it. At the end of the book, I wondered, “What about Alison’s mother? What about her point…

Title: The Man Within My Head
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, Penguin India
ISBN: 978-0-670-08627-6
Genre: Non-Fiction
Pages: 242
Source: Publisher
Rating: 4/5
We all have our literary heroes. Sometimes in the form of characters, which we have loved reading about and idolizing while reading or sometimes in the form of writers themselves, who bring stories and characters to life. For me, there are so many writers who have changed my life and the way I see things and the world around me and then there are those who…

Title: Chanel: An Intimate Life Author: Lisa Chaney Publisher: Fig Tree, Penguin Group, Penguin Books ISBN: 978-1-905-49036-3Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography Pages: 496Source: Publisher Rating: 4/5
One icon that instantly comes to my mind is “Coco Chanel” and it is not because of the laurels. It is because of the life she led. So when I received a detailed biography of Chanel’s life, I jumped at it and finished it in a matter of two days. Prior to this I had seen the movie based on her life, “Coco Chanel” starring Shirley…

Title: Unlikely Hero: Om PuriAuthor: Nandita C. PuriPublisher: Roli BooksPubished: 2009 Price: Rs. 395Pages: 200Genre: Non-fiction/biography
When the subject of a piece of writing is as rich and extraordinary as the much hailed actor Om Puri, a reader’s expectations from it shoot right through the sky. Not only the reader, but the writer too should feel blessed for getting a chance to take an intimate peek into his life, and winning an opportunity for leaving  a permanent mark in the literature of Indian Cinema.
Alas! This biography does nothing to…

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Kalpana Chawla
India’s First Woman Astronaut
Written by Dilip M Salwi
Published by Rupa & Co. under the Charitavali series.
Reviewed by sandhya.
On 1st February, 2003, as the world watched in disbelief, the spacecraft Columbia turned into a fireball and disintegrated in the sky, 16 minutes away from a safe touchdown after a fortnight in space. All 7 astronauts aboard were killed. Among them was 41 year old Kalpana Chawla, born in India on 17th March 1962, and who had joined NASA as a full astronaut in 1998.…

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HANA’S SUITCASE
Written by Karen Levine
Published by Jyotsna Prakashan, by permission of Second Story Press
Reviewed by sandhya.
An estimated 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust, of which about 6 million were Jews. Bare statistics. Since then, many stories of those killed and of the survivors have come to light, bringing home the horror of it all, how many ordinary and extraordinary lives have been lost.
Hana Brady would have been just such one faceless statistic.
Our book begins in Tokyo, Japan, in…

Genre : Biographical Fiction

Source : Author

Rating: 5/5

Synopsis:

(Goodreads)

With great excitement and relief, Katherine waved furiously at her parents as the ship pulled out of the harbor. They grew smaller and smaller until they were only dots on the dock and Katherine was far out at sea.
In Pursuit . . . reinvents the life of Katherine Mansfield, the modernist writer who revolutionized the short story––a writer whose spiraling career ended abruptly at thirty-four.
Born in 1888, she was a contemporary of Virginia Woolf, who famously said that Mansfield…

Snapshots from Hell falls under the genre of Business/ Biography. The book is journal of Peter Robinson, a fresher at Stanford Business School. In this funny communion of latent truth about MBA classes, Peter packs our minds to his journey to leap beyond his classmates’ excellence and making a living for him. Peter Robinson has presented an average student point of view on how he manages to get hold of the nitty gritty of the daily life.

The story intelligently begins with Peter Robinson having a walk with the President,…

Well, it reminds of the game we used to play during our childhood? It isn’t. After the first bestselling book (sold over 150000 copies) ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’, Rashmi Bansal has recently launched her second book ‘Connect the Dots’! And the name, yet again was taken from Steve Jobs’ commencement address given at the Stanford University in 2005.

The excerpt from his speech is like this – “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust… in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This…

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Book Review reposted with permission from Abhinav

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
As is written on the cover of the book ,”Lance Armstrong’s Story is the stuff of legends.”

When a healthy man who has been wining races is suddenly informed that he is suffering from testicular cancer his life gets shattered.Especially if you are diagnosed of tumors…