Posted in Best sellers, Recommended, tagged Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, Book review, Indian authors, Indian writing in English, Jonathan Livinsgston Seagull, Kiran Desai, Richard Bach, Salman Rushdie, Sea of Poppies, Spencer Johnson, The White Tiger, Who Moved My Cheese on October 27, 2008 | 35 Comments »
The whole world is talking about Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker Prize but I got to read it only now. The write-ups before the Booker were uninspiring and I stayed away. Come to think of it, I think only Arundhati Roy deserved her Booker, Kiran Desai’s book was lame and Rushdie’s book convoluted. The White Tiger [...]
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Posted in Best sellers, Highly recommended, Rohinton Mistry, tagged Author, Book review, Indian Author, Indian Novel, Indian writing in English, Novel, Rohinton Mistry on June 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
‘Family Matters’ was my first taste of Rohinton Mistry and I have been hooked since. A master story teller, he grips the reader with easy paced narrative, one rarely feels tedium. There is always a shadow of gloom in his books, and that is what gives it the sense of realism and the need for [...]
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A stunning book that I hesitated to buy because of all the hype around it. Pardon me, I am a little sceptical when there is a lot of buzz around new books. I regret having bought Red Carpet, Inheritance of Loss, House of Blue Mangoes, Babyji among others. S had picked up the book and convinced me [...]
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Ever since I read “The Kite Runner”, I was quite sure that I would definitely read Khaled Hosseini’s next book, whenever it came. I was a tad disappointed when I read the introduction at the back that said it deals with two women and their evolving relationship in the backdrop of the Afghan war. First of [...]
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