There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
For the briefest of moments, there was only silence. No gun fire. No explosions. No screaming. Just nothing. And everything felt oddly surreal. Previous nightmare incidents flooded him - the Active Shooter situations everyone had seen on their TV screens a million times:Dunblane.Virginia Tech.Columbine.But St. Patrick's High?I love Cozies. Murders yes, but little violence, bloodshed, … Continue reading Review: The Survivor by Sean Slater
The truth is there are days when the world changes and a man does not notice because his mind is on his own affairs.There are some writers whose life is as (if not more) interesting as the texts they wrote. Edgar Allan Poe is one such. On the 26th of September 1849, Poe was in … Continue reading Edgar Allan Poe’s Reynolds: And Therein Hangs a Tale
"I thought it was time to spin the story, weave the tale. The result is Yellow Rose and 19 other roses of different colours titled differently."I had enjoyed reading K.K. Khullar's biography of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, so when I saw a book of short stories written by him, I picked it up with great expectations. … Continue reading The Pain of Partition: K.K. Khullar’s Yellow Rose
After Cozies, the genre in mysteries that I like best is the Academic mystery. I greatly enjoy the unfolding of the plot as the characters set about to solve a mythological/ historical/ literary puzzle while going over old records, journals, letters, and try to connect point A to point J. (A -J, it rhymes you see).I … Continue reading Two Under the Tuscan Sun
Chetan Bhagat did both a huge service and disservice to the cause of Indian literature. While his first novel (and all subsequent ones too) gave India a taste for reading, he also made every person with the ability to put pen on paper, think that he could be the next literary sensation. The two novels that … Continue reading Two Candles on my Cake
What happens when you take too long finishing a book? You end up butchering it. It happened with Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Circular Staircase. I read Yvette's review of the book sometime back in March. Since I had wanted to read a Rinehart for long and since Yvette was all praise for it, I thought I'd … Continue reading Review: The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Jonathan Donner, heir to a multi-million fortune, meets a young woman by the name of Nicole Pierce while sky-diving. He saves her from certain death, she is indebted to him. It is the beginning of a whirlwind romance that culminates in a runaway marriage. While, Jonathan's father, Jack, and his sister, Pam, accept Nicole as … Continue reading Review: The Daughter-in-Law by Diana Diamond
... he could have no idea of the hell of fear into which he plunged her. She was white to the lips as she shrank into the corner of the carriage. She was afraid of him - afraid of everyone in the train. Even Hare seemed to have entered into a conspiracy against her. The … Continue reading The Wheel Spins and How!
We laughed a lot, to hide it from each other. But fear always finds an out. If you control your face, it slips into your voice. If you manage to keep a grip on your face and your voice, as if they were dead wood, it will slip out through your fingers. It will pass … Continue reading ‘Nachgeborenen’: Those who Came After: Herta Muller’s Green Plums
...but with each step you take while fleeing, your baggage grows less and less, with more and more left behind, and sooner or later you just stop and sit there, and then all that is left of life is life itself, and everything else is lying in all the ditches beside all the roads in … Continue reading Haunted by Ghosts: Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
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