This was the first Murakami book that I read and was completely smitten by it. It easily blends in surreal and everyday events in such an intricate web that you are forced to stay glued till the very end.
The story is about a man named Toru Okada whose cat has disappeared, and then one...
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Well I was surfing the bookstore when I saw this small little book with an interesting title. I just thought about taking a peek and I found it so interesting and completed the book there itself. Bad Manners. I know, but it just happened. This little book is full of humorous incidents that perhaps...
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Plot:
A scientific research deep sea drilling team drills into an underwater volcano except that it isn’t a volcano at all!
Main Protagonists:
Perry Bergman (President of Benthic marine), Suzanne (Oceanographer), Donald (ex-navy), Michael (ex-naval diver who was thrown out the Navy as a result of more than a few transgressions), Richard (same story as Michael!)
The review:
Benthic...
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‘The white tiger’ is the debut novel of the novelist Mr. Aravind Adiga and is the winner of the man booker prize in 2008.
This book is a first person account- in form of a letter written by the narrator to the president of China- Mr. Wen Jiabao. The narrator, Balram halwai writes the letter...
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The Smile
There is a Smile of Love
And there is a Smile of Deceit
And there is a Smile of Smiles
In which these two Smiles meet
- An Extract of the Poem The Smile, By William Blake
These were the lines in the first page of the book that attracted my attention. I was surfing my book shelf when...
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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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Throw together a shopaholic like Rebecca Bloomwood (Becky) and a wedding together and thats a great potential for good chick lit. This books exploits the potentia well.
Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Shophie Kinsella is the third book of the Shopaholic series and is set in New York. Boyfriend Luke Brandon joins Becky to...
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Three daughters of Madame Liang, published first in 1969 is one of the last pieces of Pearl S Buck’s work. I’ve read more than half a dozen of her pieces of work and, this one is as lucid, as deceptively simple and yet deep as others.
Through the book, Three daughters of Madame Liang,...
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