Mysteries in April

In April, I read both fictional and non-fictional mysteries.THE SHUDDERS by ANTHONY ABBOTWe all know those books that begin with a bang but end with a whimper. Thus it was with Anthony Abbot's The Shudders, a book that I could not put down initially and then could not believe that in the end it amounted …

Journey of the Self: Aatish Taseer’s Stranger to History

"I had sought out my father because I couldn't live with the darkness of not knowing him."Absent fathers make for haunting presence. Think of Hamlet, Ghosts, and The Glass Menagerie.Aatish Taseer's first book: Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands is a young man's search for his father who like the father in …