Category: Book Review

Death by Scrabble – Review

Book: Death by Scrabble Author: Charlie Fish Year: 2006 Well, look at the publishing date guys. This one isn't a relic from the past. It's as recent as 6 years ago! Like, half a dozen years! That's it? Death by Scrabble is a short story which won't take more than 3 minutes to finish and understand. But I... Continue Reading →

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Gone With the Wind – Book Review

Book: Gone With the Wind Author: Margaret Mitchell Year: 1936 Margaret Mitchell’s only published work, Gone With the Wind, is a novel of massive proportions. Not to be confused as an out-and-out love story this historical saga spans the years of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction and traces with it the life of Scarlett... Continue Reading →

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The Palace of Illusions – Review

Book: The Palace of Illusions Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Year: 2008 A poignant tale about a woman and her dreams A re-telling of the famous epic of pride, love and revenge—The Mahabharata The goings-on of a girl’s mind, a girl who always wished she was a man—Panchaali Divakaruni gets into the psyche of Draupadi (Panchaali), a girl surrounded... Continue Reading →

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The Eleventh Commandment – Review

Book: The Eleventh Commandment Author: Jeffrey Archer Year: 1998 I read this a long time ago. Got my hands on it again this past year, so re-read it. My first Archer novel and, boy, was I a happy man when I was done with it! Surprisingly, I loved this one much more than the fabled... Continue Reading →

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A Quiver Full of Arrows – Review

Short story writing, in my opinion is an art that requires a little more gift than it does to write a novel. Although, there are some stalwarts in the short story writing field, Jeffrey Archer is not far behind. A couple of years ago, I happened to buy a collection of short stories by Archer.... Continue Reading →

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Review

Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Author: Mark Haddon Year: 2003 Bookhad did something different this time. We decided to have a prompt along with the regular voting. So we admins decided on a prompt which could've been anything from "female cop lead" to "colour in the title". The members were to... Continue Reading →

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Fear is the Key – Review

Book: Fear is the Key Author: Alistair MacLean Year: 1961 "My red rose had turned to white." That is how the story begins in this vintage MacLean thriller. Set up in the Gulf of Mexico in the year 1958 it has, like many other MacLean books, the sea as an important part of the story. The... Continue Reading →

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City of Djinns – Book Review

There is more than just one relationship one can have with a book. What one takes away from a book is noteworthy and much discussed, but what one brings to a book is far less acknowledged. More often than not, one approaches a book with expectations; to be enchanted, enthralled, entertained, emancipated and even educated.... Continue Reading →

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