I recently finished reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. While he is very well-known for his work One Hundred Years of Solitude, I happened to chance this other book of his at Landmark. It has a mango-coloured cover with worn out drinking steel glasses and a stark red flowers in a concavity of... Continue Reading →
Once in a while, it's good to get yourself a ride. And if it's thrilling, that's all the more a reason to hitch one. It's been a while since I read a good crime novel. One that would have a protagonist worthy of admiration because he/she can do almost anything and a storyline that keeps... Continue Reading →
Mitch Albom is a very celebrated author and is best known for his book “Tuesdays with Morrie” which was basically like entries in a diary. It was a non fiction book recounting the meetings he had with his dying Sociology Professor. But, i’m not here to speak about this book. A very well known author... Continue Reading →
A tear-jerker written by the romantic author Nicholas Sparks and made into a movie of the same name starring Kevin Costner, A Message in a Bottle is an interesting, if not an exhilarating one. I haven’t seen the movie and am not planning to either. Now don’t get the wrong idea about me not liking... Continue Reading →
Gail Wynand: “what have you been thinking these past weeks?” Howard Roark: “The principle behind which the Dean who fired me from Stanton.” “What principle?” “The thing that is destroying thins world. Actual selflessness.” “The ideal which they say does not exist?” “They are wrong. It does exist-though not in a way which they imagine.... Continue Reading →
As the title suggests the book is about a tiny poetry called the “The Culling Song”. It has its origin in Africa and the song is sung to tiny children in times of grief like famines and droughts; or to crippled warriors in a battlefield who are about to die. It’s a song to end... Continue Reading →
(FC = Fight Club) You're in office. Your boss hands you reports to analyze. You've been reading FC while you could. Your boss, your girlfriend, the coffee machine; all of them are like bees buzzing outside your head. Last night you weren't in town. No one knows that. Last night you were in town. Everyone... Continue Reading →
Once in a lifetime comes a book that stays in your mind like a bookmarked event in the sheets of time. A book that was written to leave behind an epitaph when none would come to their grave. It'll be there whether you visit it or not. It'll bear the inscriptions whether you read them... Continue Reading →
Month: February 2011 Book-Had was reading: Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer Review: Written in the late 70’s by British author, Jeffrey Archer, this book tells you the story, or is rather a saga, of two men, Kane and Abel, born on the same day – 19th April and how their destinies intertwine. The name of... Continue Reading →
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