Book: Doctors Author: Erich Segal Year: 1988 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ A real physician almost never seeks another doctor’s help. For they all are painfully aware of just how little anybody understands about curing the sick. When I read The Class (which is awesome, by the way) a few years ago I was a little shocked that a 500... Continue Reading →
Book: The Count of Monte Cristo Author: Alexandre Dumas Year: 1844 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Sinbad the Sailor. Lord Wilmore. Abbé Faria. The Count of Monte Cristo. Yeah, they're all the same. I had read this book around 4 years ago. I found it inside my eldest's desk, sitting atop Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock... Continue Reading →
Name: The God of Small Things Author: Arundhati Roy Year: 1997 Bookhad Rating: 8/10 That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance. Then Small God (cosy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity. Inured by the confirmation of his own inconsequence, he became resilient... Continue Reading →
Name: The Unwanted Shadow Author: Bhaskaryya Deka Year: 2014 Bookhad Rating: 4/10 The Unwanted Shadow is the story of Mohan and how he takes control of the reins of his life. It is a story told many times; about a town folk leaving his old life behind and settling in a big city; about him severing... Continue Reading →
Book: The Age of Innocence Author: Edith Wharton Year: 1920 Bookhad Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Society is what makes the rules and it has the capacity to bring to life and to kill the players who don’t adhere to it. Duty versus Love. It’s an interesting stipulation that can be regarded either strictly in academic terms or in real terms. Academic... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Book: Poison Study Author: Maria V. Snyder Year: 2005 The first part of the Study Series leaves the reader with a good feeling inside which lasts for about a night or so. It is a good story. That is it. It's set in the fictional land of Ixia in some distant past where kings and military generals... 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 →
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