‘A lesson before dying’ is a story of two African American men – Grant Wiggins and Jefferson, who shares a unique bond with one of them awaiting his death call. The story starts with the court proceedings against the 21 year old, uneducated Jefferson, who happened to be at a wrong place at a...
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It is so easy to criticize something, someone but it is equally difficult to be honest and think up plausible reasons for liking something immensely to the extent of appearing biased… I was overwhelmed by a strange feeling after reading TWILIGHT. A feeling I could not put my finger into. What was it? Was...
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This book review is written by Mani Padma . Mani Padma is an avid book reader and a follower of GingerChai. When I grabbed a copy of the book “Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of The Game” I was hoping hopelessly a sequel to the Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon and at par...
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The Reader is a story of a 15 year old boy Michael Berg , who starts having an affair with Hanna Schmitz aged 35. But after a brief period filled with steamy affair amidst some strange behaviors of Hanna, she leaves him suddenly without reasons, of which he is clueless about , until he..
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Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize 2006 for her “Inheritance of loss” , which happens to be her second novel. Luckily , thanks to my memory ( lack of it , infact) I had totally forgot all through my reading that the book comes with a baggage of Booker price reputation . Surprisingly...
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‘ If God was a Banker ‘ becomes the first book in my book review section of my blog. I used to be once a vociferous reader but somewhere down the lane I stopped running my imagination on the words I read from the pages of various authors , so I decided to restart...
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Divya by Yashpal is set in historical times, the era when teachings of Buddha were prevalent and people were embracing Buddhism. The book is originally in Hindi, it’s been translated in English by Anand. It is a story about the girl Divya. The book traces her journey from her teenage to the time when...
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Five Point Someone is the maiden novel of Chetan Bhagat , the IIT / IIM graduate turned Author , whose novel “ One night @ Call centre ” was quiet a hit with the Indian readers (but not with me) and was later made...
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