It's been more than a month since I have been trying to get together a reading list for this year. I am not the kinds who celebrate New Years and enjoy the pomp surrounding its arrival, but I sure do like to address the coming year by adding a tinge of "method" to the "madness".... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many... Continue Reading →
We bring to you this year end delight. The following are the books that Bookhad read. All hyperlinks will take you to their respective reviews on this blog. We'll keep updating these hyperlinks as and when we review the books. We are growing. That's like saying that the Himalayas are gigantic or that Orwell was a... Continue Reading →
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