A Night To Remember ‘Night‘ by Elie Wiesel is not a book for the faint hearted or for those looking for a casual read. The book maybe thin but don’t judge it by the size. Its profound impact on the reader goes beyond its volume. The book deals with the Holocaust-one of the brutal...
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Plot Certain people in law and secret police circles are involved in morbid sex slavery and the like. Lisbeth Salander gets into this mire and soon half a dozen people want her dead and six feet under. Review In the second installment of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium trilogy”, asocial hacker Lisbeth Salander is on the...
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Author: Stieg Larsson ISBN 978-1-84724-254-2 (English) Publication date: 2005 Translated by: Reg Keeland Pages: 480 Plot Harriet Vanger has been missing and presumed dead for 40 years. But then why does her great uncle, Henrik Vanger, still receive one framed flower every year on his birthday, from her? Review Sweden may be the land...
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Author: Agatha Christie Lead Character: Hercule M. Poirot Genre: Fiction, Crime Thriller, Murder Mystery Who do you think is the best detective character after Sherlock Holmes? Do you even know other characters? Well, in case you don’t know let me introduce to you Hercule M. Poirot, A Belgian by Birth but settled in UK...
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As the name suggests, it is a story of a Mistress of Spices! Sounded interesting hence I chose this one to read. It is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who also wrote “Arranged Marriage”, a book which I honestly did not know until I read this title. Mistress of Spices is a story of...
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Haruki Murakami is a famous Japanese writer who had his books translated into 38 other different languages. Haruki Murakmi wrote this novel back in 1992. It was translated and released in English by Philip Gabriel in 2000. South of the Border, West of the Sun discusses the messed up life of a regular Japanese...
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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...
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Plot: The book recounts 12 nervous hours in the life fictional airport ‘Lincoln International’ at Chicago and how the lives of about a dozen people collide as a result. Main Characters: Mel Bakersfield (Airport General Manager), Cindy Bakersfield (Mel’s wife), D O Guerro (a passenger with a terrifying agenda!), Tanya Livingston (A passenger relations...
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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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The Hot Zone, is a 1994 New York Times best seller book by Richard Preston. The Book discusses the sudden reappearance of the Ebola virus, which was then limited to Southern Africa, to be discovered in Washington D.C. How America responds to the virus and whether it succeeded in ensuring the safety of its citizens...
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