Posts Tagged ‘ books ’

Night by Elie Wiesel

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May 4, 2011
Night by Elie Wiesel

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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The Girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson

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November 28, 2010
The Girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson

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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The girl with the dragon tattoo

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November 14, 2010
The girl with the dragon tattoo

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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Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie

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September 8, 2010
Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie

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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The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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July 5, 2010
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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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South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

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June 29, 2010
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

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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The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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May 30, 2010
The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami

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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Airport by Arthur Hailey

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May 23, 2010
Airport by Arthur Hailey

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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Why Men Can Only Do One Thing At A Time and Women Never Stop Talking

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May 15, 2010
Why Men Can Only Do One Thing At A Time and Women Never Stop Talking

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 by Richard Preston

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May 8, 2010
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

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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