Gail Tsukiyama’s first novel, Women of the Silk deserves all those praises. It is a moving, quiet and yet intense coming-of-age novel of a young Chinese woman, who is sold to a house of silk by her poor parents.
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Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park is the science fiction highlighting the developments and growth in biotechnology, but when this is mixed with the human greed, then it could be dangerous for this planet and the people. The story starts with John Hammond, an old man inviting paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm a great mathematician,...
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War
This 55 Fiction written by Sir Pumpkin is inspired by the TV series “Lost”. He had a gruesome job. He was a soldier. He ‘extracted’ information from stubborn POWs. He caused excruciating physical pain, and then he ‘extracted’ information. His heart stopped and his eyes widened when his latest prisoner said: “… .. The tables...
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A Dream…
The building stood tall and proud. He looked at it with satisfaction and content. Malls, hotels, clubs his sweat has laced the dreams. Since childhood , he wanted to be an architect and give a good life to his siblings. Alas ! Poverty turned him into a daily laborer like his parents. This...
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Distortion
Dodging his pursuers he reached the scene of his first crime. He remembered with a smirk the teenager. Raped and murdered. Suddenly, he sensed someone nearby. Shocked, he saw her, standing there, arms outstretched, on fire. Terrified, he screamed! “Burn in hell” her mother hissed, opening her teary eyes, ending the nightmare. But the...
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New Moon by Stephenie Meyers
My expectations were very much raised for this sequel to TWILIGHT and I was so eager to lap it up, that I finished reading it in a night. A feat I had achieved only once earlier i.e. in HARRY POTTER and THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. But the pace of the sequel was sedate comparatively....
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Law of the Wild
Industrialization and progress! How they change lives! Some intentional, some unintentional. He was in peace until they encroached his space. Terrified and nowhere to go, he killed, but he was branded the terror. He is doomed now. They have planned his execution well. Death is on its way for the Man eating tiger of...
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Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of The Game by Tilly Bagshawe
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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