There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
What are we if not an accumulation of our memories?At the end of The Great Gatsby, Nick calls Tom and Daisy, Careless People. This is the phrase that came to my mind as I finished S.J. Watson's Before I Go To Sleep.But first the facts. A woman wakes up to find herself in a strange … Continue reading Careless People: Before I go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
Ambitious young woman with a brilliant academic record is reduced to being a flight-attendant. [Why? One doesn't know]. The about-to-go-kaput airline is taken over by a business maverick: young, handsome, and charming to boot. The woman makes some suggestions at a board meeting and is singled-out for praise by her new boss, and is given a … Continue reading Review: Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
I hadn't heard of Ellery Queen till I started blogging. Then I got to know that not only is he (actually the pseudonym of two American cousins) a well-known mystery writer but also one of the Big Four. So I went searching for his books and was happy enough to discover that some of his … Continue reading Forgotten Books: The Murderer is a Fox by Ellery Queen
Is Truth something set in stone or something shimmery seen differently in different lights? This is the question that Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya attempts in his novel: The Storyteller of Marrakesh.A young couple - the man an Indian, the woman a westerner - are seen walking round the Jemma on a particular day. Soon afterwards the couple … Continue reading Review: The Stroyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
In my early school-going days, Sherlock Holmes was THE DETECTIVE. My bhuaji's husband (whom as is wont in our family, we called Jijaji) told us enthusiastically about how as a young boy in Quetta, he and some of his schoolmates, who knew English, would narrate the adventures of Holmes to the village elders. So impressed … Continue reading Sherlock Holmes Deconstructed: Partha Basu’s The Curious Case of 221B
A few years back, Rhonda Byrne's book The Secret was the rage. Everybody (but Everybody) was raving about the book. All the dreams of yours, it was said, will come true if only you'll read the book. Finally, I too had to read it and it was in that spirit that I bought the book … Continue reading The Secret is within the Subconscious
Does anyone remember those bulky black umbrellas that every Indian household used to possess before the coming of the dainty, multi-coloured umbrellas from Nepal and China? That large contraption saved us from rain and hail but was heavy to carry and was most certainly not an accessory. Folding it would require elephantine effort too and … Continue reading U is for Umbrella
Vienna. 1939.The Second World War has started, Austria is part of the German Reich, and the times are full of danger.Dr. Beer is called to examine the niece of Professor Speckstein, Zuzka. The professor is supposed to be a Nazi spy and his dog had been brutally killed a couple of days ago. Even as … Continue reading Diseased Society: Dan Vyleta’s The Quiet Twin
There are books which you begin reading with great enthusiasm. Then slowly they start turning boring and repetitive, and finally so tedious that you just want them to come to an end so that you can be done with them. But unfortunately, the end takes lots of time in coming...So it was with the book … Continue reading Review: The Yellow Face by Fred M. White
Little Bruno's world changes when he shifts from Berlin to a place called Out-With as his Father has been posted over there. But what exactly his Father does,Bruno has little idea. All he knows is that his father was a man to watch and that the Fury had big things in mind for him and … Continue reading His Father’s Thoughts: John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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