The Himalayan Revelation: Book Review

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(c) Reviewed by Sridevi Nayak Karopady

The Mad Tibetan - Stories from then and now. : Book Review.

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The Mad Tibetan, stories from the and now is a fiction by Deepti Naval. This book will definitely will be one of favorites for the way it is narrated. It is succinct and has a very idiosyncratic descriptive nature. Each story is picturesque and expressive and strikes the right chord of the readers mind.

English Bites! My Fullproof English Learning Formula

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This book is a must for everyone who aspires to learn this language or wants to advance more. For more views on this book please click on this link.
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Whisper of the Worms : Book Review

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Happy Birthday : Book Review

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My Verdict
The concept behind this book is very stimulating. Author Danielle Steel takes three birthdays that fall on the same day, all of them uninspiring to the birthday girl or boy, and turns them into the start of something that changes the life’s pace. Set in New York City, and full of the glitz and glamour associated with this city, the book twists the fast pace of the city with the strong, affectionate bonds of family. Despite the struggles from the characters in an attempt to resolve with a milestone birthday, they find love and happiness.

Amreekan Desi : Book Review

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Atulya Mahajan’s debut novel Amreekan desi is about two Indian boys with the similar dream of making a livelihood in America. With many stereotypes, the story relates how these Indian students get together in the US whilst they are searching for their so-called-American Dream. Akhil Arora and Jaspreet Singh are the protagonists of this novel. They become friends in this foreign land.

Those Pricey Thakur Girls : Book Review

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The book revolves around the five beautiful but niggling daughters of Justice Laxminarayan who resides in the extravagant bungalow on the classy Hailey road with his wife. He has named his daughters in alphabetical order which is very archetypal. He has two unmarried daughters Debjani, our protagonist and Eshwari, the overly popular girl in school while the other three married ones and rest of the daughters are married. Anjini is strikingly gorgeous and enticingly flirtatious but is childless. Binodini is the second daughter and she has filed a case against her own father to get her rightful share of Justice’s property and Chandralekha, is considered as the black sheep in the family who elopes on the eve of her wedding.

Through the window : Book Review

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Julian Barnes, in this essay collection describes the reader about writers who inspired him. This is very remarkable for to read author’s thoughts on Penelope Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kipling, Madame Bovary, Ford Madox Ford and George Orwell and those who were instrumental in influencing him. 

Hoshruba, The land and the Tilism: Book Review

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Behind the Book:

Long  long ago, a group of sorcerers created tilism or a magical land. It is a world of spirits and talismans, where mountains change shape, fairies spring from the earth, dragon’s head dart out of flowers, and things are rarely what they seem. But it has a limited lifespan for its destruction is preordained. Hoshruba is its name, and it is ruled by the bold sorcerer Afrasiyab. Prophecies claim that Hoshruba will someday fall to a hero who possessed the key to the tilism. But the key has been lost, and Afrasiyab, with his invincible army of sorcerers, has remained the unchallenged ruler of the land.

Big Girl : Book Review

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This is a sensitive and an insightful  novel by Danielle Steel. The author rejoices the qualities of so called unconventional beauty while exploring intense issues of weight, body image, fat phobia, self-image, sisterhood, and family. This books premise is very realistic. It talks about the unconventional beauty and body image. The society thinks fat is stigma. Whereas it is not as what the so called slim people think. 

The Revenge of Geography : Book Review

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Behind the book

The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. 

Happy Birthday and Other Stories : Book Review

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Behind the book

A dedicated friend undertakes one last labour of love for a childless woman. Nadia - married into money - finds herself facing uncomfortable truths about her comfortably numb marriage. A Mumbai slum-girl dreams of speaking words valuable enough to be translated into English. An American tourist seeking nirvana sets off a sudden chain of events when his bag is stolen, and destiny plays her hand. A retired civil servant of modest means struggles to support his snooty foreign-returned daughter.

Meghna Pant’s knife - sharp stories are compelling, emotionally intelligent and provide a rare glimpse into the strange workings of the human heart. They evade neat categorization and are the perfect read for all curious spirits.

Shoes of the dead : Book Review

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I received this book after having an urge to read more on the farmer suicide based factional stories. One such book which instigated such urge was Foreign by Sonora Jha. ​The book, Shoes of the dead cries about the increasing debt-related farmer​s' ​suicide issues in Mityala district, Delhi. Kota Neelima, the author of the book, begins the story with a few journalists being invited to the MP’s residence to share ‘off the record’ information. It’s a trap which has a purpose to disseminate any potential acerbic outburst in the media with farmer suicides basking the limelight.

Change : Book Review

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Change, is a short story that narrates the social and political changes that have taken place in China from 1969 to 2009. Also Mo Yan writes about the changes in his life. It is an autobiography book which was originally written in Chinese by Yan, and later translated to English by Howard Goldblatt.

The Homing Pigeons : Book Review

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The homing pigeons, a debut novel by Sid Bahri and is published by Srishti publishers and distributors. I received this book from MySmartPrice (http://www.mysmartprice.com/books/) and in return I promised them to give an honest and an unbiased review.

Dhandha, How Gujaratis Do Business : Book Review

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Dhandha: How Gujaratis do business is a non-fiction book authored by Shobha Bondre. The book is translated by Shalaka Walimbe. It’s a book that flaunts the achievements of five Gujaratis. Each chapter is written by the successful entrepreneurs – Bhimjibhai Patel one of the country’s biggest diamond merchants and co-founder of the ‘Diamond Nagar’ in Surat. MohanBhai Patel, who served as Sheriff of Mumbai before becoming the leading manufacturer of aluminium collapsible tubes and owner of SUPA farms in Maharasthra. Hersha and Hasu Shah, owners of over a hundred hotels in the US. Jayadev Patel, who has found fame with having sold policies worth $2.5 billion as the New York Life Insurance agent. And, Dalpath Bhai Patel, the mayor of Mansfield County who was a motelier before.

The Stopover : Book Review

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The Stopover is a book which I have to say is one of a kind for it is a combination of both fiction and the facts which are complimented by eye catching photographs. The stopover is an anthology of four short stories that takes place in four parts of India i.e Ladakh, Channapatna, Ooty and Chennai. The stories are knitted around these places with something new to offer for.

My Stroke of Luck ; Alphabet to Author. : Book Review

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My Stroke of Luck is a non-fiction book written by Vijay Santhanam. This is his third book but it is his first sole authored book. I got this book from BlogAdda as a part of book review program. The tagline of the book clearly and rightly states its one man’s inspiring tale about his journey from adversity to victory and undoubtedly instills a path to motivate others to cope and win against any adversity that our life throws at us.

Foreign, A Novel : Book Review

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Foreign, a novel by Sonora Jha, is an absolutely spellbinding book. It’s a novel which is written in third person point of view and may be this is the eminent fact that has gripped in me so much that I cannot let go off it. 

Manuscript found in Accra : Book Review.

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Manuscript of Accra, is one of a kind book. The book mentions about manuscript which was found by a noted English Archaeologist, Sir Walter Wilkinson. The carbon -14 test was conducted on the manuscript and the results says that it can be traced to its origin to the city of Accra, outside Egyptian territory.  Along with this, author Paulo Coelho also mention that in 1945, two brother discovered an urn full of papyruses, most of which are now at the Coptic Museum in Cairo and the rest was acquired by the Carl Jung institute.  

Memoirs of a Geisha : Book Review

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This book is one such book which held me for a long time. The story is of a small girl Chiyo struck by poverty, who is sold by her father to a popular Geisha boarding house, Okiya in Gion at Kyoto. There is something in this book which can strike the right chord. The reason could be the narrative, a gripping and beautifully paced that has the capacity to keep the reader hooked from the beginning.

Tantra By Adi : Book Review

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Tantra is the story about the protagonist Anu Aggarwal from New York., a guardian who stakes the Vampires. She is a no nonsense taker and has gained a good reputation for killing the dangerous vampires in New York City. Her life goes for a spin when the bloodsuckers kill the Brain, a person whom she loved dearly. She wants to avenge his death and this motive gets her to fly to New Delhi since she thinks the clue for solving the murder would be there.