Sometimes, some things happen to your life when need it the most. The same thing happened to me. I was overworked, and things were not working perfectly for me and more I thought about it, the more it became worse. So, I took a break and read a few books. One of them was...
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Buried alive is a true story of kidnapping, captivity, and a dramatic rescue that spanned 311 days.
Post occupation, Iraq is one of the most violent and dangerous zone and world has been terrorized with the videos of brutal beheading of hostages. Buried Alive gives you a chilling true account of the author Roy Hallums,...
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Couple of weeks back, when i was randomly browsing a book store, a book caught my attention. To be precise two lines in the cover made me lift the book from the rack.
The title: The Book Thief
The tag line: When death tells a story, you really want to listen.
Once in hand, I also...
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Sea of Poppies tells us the story, set in the 19th century, in the India ruled by the British people; and revolves around the people living in Bengal, whose lives are dependent on opium, in some way or the other.
It starts with parallel stories of Deeti, who had a drug addicted husband; a...
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East Wind: West Wind is the first book by Pearl Buck – written in her twenties. It is an easy read. Pearl Buck’s style of simple writing holds for this book as well. She describes mundane things and does not unnecessarily analyze the actions of the characters.
The book gives a good introduction to...
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Don’t be confused! This is the title of the book which I read at a pace even I am surprised. I have read it 3 times! Well, I am not sure why did I read it 3 times but I did and I think I can read it yet again.
When I first saw...
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Pearl S Buck wrote this book after she had won the Nobel Prize for literature. This book has all the Pearl Buck Magic. I read The Good Earth 5 years ago and the descriptions in the book still remain with me. I thought, this is the best book I would ever read. But...
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Angela’s Ashes, a Pulitzer prize winning book for biography or Autography category, about Frank McCourt’s childhood in Limerick. It is about the hardships that he himself, his mother and his siblings had faced there, and how there American accent had affected their lives in Ireland.
The story starts with his father and mother...
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The book is about Indian Women – by Elisabeth Bumiller, published in 1990. Being an Indian and a Woman, the book is of interest to me. Moreover, reading the state of Indian Women as perceived by a third party – an American Woman, is interesting.
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This story, "The word of Unbinding", explores her fictional universe of "Earthsea". This universe is an archipelago, amidst uncharted waters, where magic is a way of life . Technologically "Earthsea" is based in early Iron Age .The story also reveals a certain obsession with nature and trees among the people of Earthsea .
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