... And here we're again. The year end always brings forth mixed feelings. The feeling of completion juxtaposed with the feeling of weightlessness of what could've been. The year 2014 was a mixed bag, just like its predecessor. Just like the year ahead will be. Apart from the usual review writing and book reading there... Continue Reading →
The Final Empire (Mistborn # 1) – Review
Book: The Final Empire (Mistborn # 1) Author: Brandon Sanderson Year: 2006 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.” Brandon has created a world of magic where the world is covered in black mist and is ruled by an entity who calls himself Lord Ruler. He is un-beatable and immortal... Continue Reading →
The Museum of Innocence – Review
Book: The Museum of Innocence Author: Orhan Pamuk Year: 2009 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤ Sometimes we'd do nothing but sit there in silence You read that, right? Now imagine 7 pages of tiny print, each beginning with the word 'sometimes'. It gets to you. The Museum of Innocence is a drama surrounding the life of Kemal Bey and his love... Continue Reading →
Cry, the Peacock – Review
Book: Cry, The Peacock Author: Anita Desai Year: 1963 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ Sickened, I shut my eyes, but tenuous eye-lids were no protection against the leer of the sun that morning. The light merely turned red, tinged with my own blood that crept through the hair-fine veins across my lids. I saw the world through my... Continue Reading →
The Quest of the Sparrows – Review
Book: The Quest of the Sparrows Author: Kartik Sharma Year: 2011 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Some of us tend to label books with spirituality as their background as preachy and intrusive. I, too, had avoided such books based on this mostly unwarranted prejudice of mine, so I decided to test ‘The Quest of the Sparrows’, against this prejudice, with... Continue Reading →
100 Book Quotes
We reached the three digit mark, like Utkarsha commented on the completion of the #100bookquotes phase successfully. It began one morning on the 3rd of July with To KiIl a Mockingbird and ended it with East of Eden on the 10th of October. A 100 days spent with quotes from different books and authors. A few writers... Continue Reading →
Steinbeck used 300 pencils to write East of Eden. He was known to use up to 60 pencils in a day, preferring the pencil to a typewriter or pen. Hemingway was also a fan of graphite rather than ink, though ‘Papa’ apparently also enjoyed sharpening pencils while he was working on a novel, to... Continue Reading →
As a Christian, Tolstoy considered it necessary to be a pacifist. He believed the State to be the greatest contributor to war and murder, so therefore the State had to be disregarded. His ideas later found admirers in such revolutionaries as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Tolstoy attempted to worship in the Russian Orthodox... Continue Reading →
Born in Dublin in 1856 to a middle-class Protestant family bearing pretensions to nobility (Shaw's embarrassing alcoholic father claimed to be descended from Macduff, the slayer of Macbeth), George Bernard Shaw grew to become what some consider the second greatest English playwright, behind only Shakespeare. Others most certainly disagree with such an assessment, but few... Continue Reading →
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