Must Reads: Youth, J.M. Coetzee
Flashbacks into a literary past which boasted of some fine authors; a few must-reads and a few must-haves. We review J.M. Coetzee's "Youth".
Category Archives: Books
Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes
Michael Crichton, author of ‘The Great Train Robbery’, ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Congo’ and others, releases Pirate Latitudes. We review it.
Book Review: Shobhaa De's Superstar India
I always felt the presence of Bollywood wherever I am - whether in the vicinity of a television set or just looking at the huge movie posters by the roadside while driving past. Very rarely it happens that I pick up a book and, having read its title, get a very ‘filmy feeling’ about it. [...]
Jeffery Archer: RK Narayan Greatest Story Teller, New Gen to Bring Change India’s Been Waiting For
Best-selling story teller, Lord Jeffrey Archer, has been touring India promoting his latest book “Paths of Glory”. New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune saw people flocking to the respective venues to get a glimpse of him, to get a copy signed and hopefully get a snap with him.
Yesterday he was in Pune at the [...]
Cycling Through Curious Companions
“Cycling through thirteen countries in four months is not as easy as it seems to be”, says Irish man, Mr. Jake Bullough, who had his debut in the world of literary arts with his book Curious Companions in which he has penned down some of the most exhilarating memories of his journey he promises to [...]
Book Review: The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Looking for a light, racy read this summer or maybe a witty read to divert those few hours during the boring bus ride- Sophie Kinsella’s ‘The Undomestic Goddess’ would be just the right choice for you! Categorising this book as a chick-lit would not be doing justice to the work. After all it does have [...]
Tales of Beedle the Bard
For those who felt cheated, or were left wanting for more after having read J K Rowling's Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, there is now a reason to cheer- Rowling has come up with the book "Tales of Beedle the Bard" to answer all questions that were left unanswered in the afore-mentioned book.
Fascinating Memoirs
The Memoirs of a Geisha is Arthur Golden’s first 496 page book based upon the life of Sayuri, the protagonist, who, unbelievably, is an invented character.
Arthur Golden, an American, has done a brilliant job of describing Japan as it was back in 1920’s and during the World War II. It faithfully gives the readers a [...]
Midnight's Children: The Hooker of Bookers
Take the name “Salman Rushdie” and one’s mind gets lit by the controversial era of the Satanic Verses which had the recently knighted author get a fatwa issued against him. But the reason why he should be remembered, the greatest achievement in his life, is none other than “Midnight’s Children”.
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel [...]
The Last Lecture
A lot of professors give talks titled, “The Last Lecture”. To be able to do so, they have to imagine: What wisdom would they impart to the world if they knew it was their last chance?
When Randy Pausch, a Computer Science professor from Carnegie Mellon University, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t [...]
