Category: Book Review

Baramulla Bomber – Review

Book: Baramulla Bomber Author: Suraj "Clark" Prasad Year: 2013 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤♡♡ Baramulla Bomber, the first part of the Svastik Trilogy, starts with a bang. Literally. Clark Prasad’s novel starts with J.P Oppenheimer regretting his first atomic explosion and ends somewhere in the Nordic Region Airspace. In between these two events the book takes the reader... Continue Reading →

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Not the End of the World – Review

Book: Not the End of the World Author: Kate Atkinson Year: 2002 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ To think that it has taken me over 12 years to pick this book seems like such an injustice. To me and to the book. Kate Atkinson is the author of the 2013 novel Life After Life which was shortlisted as one... Continue Reading →

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The Tin Drum – Guest Review

Book: The Tin Drum Author: Günter Grass Year: 1959 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ In the words of Günter Grass, to be human is to be childlike, curious, complex and immoral, and The Tin Drum (translated from the original German Die Blechtrommel) is all of these qualities at once. It is the autobiographical narration from his bed in a... Continue Reading →

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Marry Go Round – Review

Book: Marry Go Round Author: Sadiqa Peerbhoy Year: 2013 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤♡♡♡ As the title suggests this story is about the trials and ordeals faced by a young man, Riaz, with regards to his marriage. Sartaj Jehan, his mother, has hatched a grand plan to get him to return from America (or, Amreeka, as she says... Continue Reading →

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The Forty Rules of Love – Review

Book: The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel about Rumi Author: Elif Shafak Year: 2010 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤♡ This is my third Elif Shafak book, therefore, by common assent, it must be agreed that she is a writer I love to read. Before reviewing this book for language, story, reader immersion, and the likes I will... Continue Reading →

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Colours of Life – Review

Book: Colours of Life Author: Ashwani Tyagi Year: 2013 Bookhad Rating: ❤♡♡♡♡ This is just another debut story on love, life and the lessons which it teaches us. When I received this package from the publishers I was a little wary when I saw the violently coloured cover page and my wariness increased by leaps and... Continue Reading →

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The Fifth Mountain – Review

Book: The Fifth Mountain Author: Paulo Coelho Year: 1996 A lot of Paulo Coelho's literature is centred around folklore and mystical tales. He's the modern-day teller of age-old stories by picking their essence and creating a whole new perfume. I believe that some stories live on for ages and cut across culture, region and boundaries... Continue Reading →

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The Sense of an Ending – Review

Book: The Sense of an Ending Author: Julian Barnes Year: 2011 “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely... Continue Reading →

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