The Black Coat : Book Review

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The Luminaries : Book Review

The Luminaries is the second novel by Eleanor Catton,published by Victoria University Press in August 2013 and Granta. It s a longest book spanning 832 pages.

Summary

Walter Moody, a prospector, traverses to the fledgling West Coast of the South Island settlement of Hokitika, near New Zealand's goldfields in 1866 in an attempt to make his fortune. However, he stumbles into a edgy meeting between twelve local men. They pull him in to the complex mystery, a series of unsolved crimes. Anna Wetherell, one of the protagonist and a former opium-addicted Hokitika whore, has had a previous affair with one Crosbie Wells. Crosbie Wells yay or may not be Francis Carver. Carver is pursued by Ah Sook, a Chinese veteran of the Second Opium War. He wants vengeance for his father's death as a result of impaired border duties. 

Prisoner Jailor Prime Minister : Book Review

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India has a new Prime Minister but is Siddhartha Tagore the product of his genius or of his dangerous mind? India is on edge, as a subversive internal revolt against the Constitution and the threat of Jehadi terror of an unthinkable level, are looming on the horizon. Ringing Shivas damaru in and out of Parliament, a sudden turn of karma catapults outsider Siddhartha Tagore - a conflicted genius, music maestro and prodigal son, with forceful views on China and Pakistan into national prominence as the head of the Opposition Alliance and finally as the newly elected Prime Minister of a disturbed nation. But buried secrets are being resurrected and threaten to expose the past. Twisted within the double helix of menacing politics and hidden lust, Prisoner, Jailor, Prime Minister is a scorching account of Siddhartha Tagores fascinating journey from Harvard to 7 Race Course ad.

The Dalai Lama's Cat : Book Review

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A perfect brew, appealing  and love for felines and shedding light on Buddhism. The author has effortlessly weaved stories around the Buddhism teachings which he wanted to put across. The narrator of this book, the cat, is rather very unusual and felines lover will find it to be simply adorable. The coherent description of Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj will engage the the reader with delight and yearning. One would want to pin this places 

No Man's Land : Book Review

Behind the book

“Land - you can’t burn it like money, you can't melt it like gold. You can only buy it, sell it, snatch it, grab it. Titles change, governments change, times change but the land stays where it is unmoved and sterile. That is its beauty. But, somewhere deep down, men want to grab its immortality and slip it into their horribly insecure lives. They never can but they never will stop trying.”

The One You Cannot Have : Book Review

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The Himalayan Revelation: Book Review

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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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.