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.