Tag: Book Review

The Girl on the Train – Review

Book: The Girl on the Train Author: Paula Hawkins Year: 2015 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ (half) Stories where the wife goes missing: The Zahir by Paulo Coelho Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins All three worth reading even though the trigger is somewhat the same. Somewhat. The Girl on the... Continue Reading →

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Death and the Penguin – Review

Book: Death and the Penguin Author: Andrey Kurkov Year: 1996 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ Death and the Penguin has a spot on my book list due to my resolve to read books from different countries. Set in Ukraine, this satirical and bleak novel revolves around the protagonist Viktor Zolotaryov and his profession, which, in a rather... Continue Reading →

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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry – Review

Book: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Author: Gabrielle Zevin Year: 2014 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ "A place is no place without a bookstore." A. J. Fikry owns a purple Victorian cottage on Alice Island. A widower who lives mostly on frozen foods and is unable to forget his wife Nic who died in a car... Continue Reading →

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Trespassing – Review

Book: Trespassing Author: Uzma Aslam Khan Year: 2005 Bookhad Rating:  We've all read The Kite Runner, even those of us who haven't. And suddenly, we all knew everything that was enough to finally place Afghanistan on our mental maps. The book and America have helped place the country in a space where stereotypes are broken and made. Make... Continue Reading →

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Daughter of Fortune – Review

Book: Daughter of Fortune Author: Isabel Allende Year: 1999 Bookhad Rating:  Whatever I knew about Isabel Allende was from her TED talk titled Tales of Passion. It's one of the six TED talks bundled under the category 'How to tell a story'. Needless to say, it's a fantastic talk, and she's funny in equal measure. If nothing else,... Continue Reading →

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Persepolis – Review

Book: Persepolis Author: Marjane Satrapi Year: 2000 Bookhad Rating:  This autobiographical, intelligent, witty, and honest graphic novel paints a picture of Marjane's (fondly called Marji) life in Iran after the Shah was overthrown and at the advent of the Islamic revolution. Marji - an extrovert girl finds her world turned upside down when her French school... Continue Reading →

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From the Holy Mountain – Review

Book: From the Holy Mountain Author: William Dalrymple Year: 1997 Bookhad Rating:  The Convent of Seidnaya, Syria, 11th September 1994 When the travel writer Colin Thubron visited the convent in 1966, he claimed to have witnessed a miracle: to have seen the face of the icon of Notre Dame de Seidnaya stream with tears. In the same... Continue Reading →

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The Architect’s Apprentice – Review

Name: The Architect's Apprentice Author: Elif Safak Year: 2014 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤ As I entered Istanbul, my guide pointed out the borders of erstwhile Constantinople. Further into the city, he pointed out the aqueducts. And as a part of the full-fledged city tour, I saw all the other monuments and a few mosques that rose high on the... Continue Reading →

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Nine Lives – Review

Book: Nine Lives Author: William Dalrymple Year: 2009 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤♡ One consumes one's life in narcissistic and even egoistical ways. That travel can make us leave behind our cocoons of self-examination and indulgence is proved in two ways - by actually travelling or letting one's mind travel when one relishes art in any form. In the... Continue Reading →

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