Book: Silver Sparrow Author: Tayari Jones Publication: Algonquin Pages: 368 Price: Click the link Introduction: Silver Sparrow is the third novel by the American author Tayari Jones, which was first published in 2011. Tayari Jones (born November 30, 1970) is an American author. An American Marriage is her best-known work The book opens with […]
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Book Review, Social IssuesBook: Arranged Marriage Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Publication: RHUK Pages: 320 Price: Click the Link Author Introduction: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an Indian American author and poet, started her writing career with her lyric pen. But her unique potency unfurls in her fiction. Today’s topic, \”Arranged Marriage”,
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Book Review, Short Story CollectionIntroduction: At first, I try Anita Nair\’s A Cut Like Wound and feel it is the book-form of the movie Murder-2. I feel despaired and hopeless, so I decided to try another novel of her to get a concept of her writer\’s character. Whenever I read a literary piece I try to frame a concept about the author whom
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Book ReviewThe Four Chambered Heart by Anais Nin Book: The Four Chambered Heart Author: Anais Nin Publication: Swallow Pr Pages:182 Price: Click the link “But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom… love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist’s bottle rendering visible the
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Book ReviewBeautiful: In the Eye of the Beholder: 200 Stories and Poems by authors and poets worldwide (Steve Carr/Sweetycat Press) It is a wonderful collection of short stories and poems centred around the theme of beauty…ever-widening concept circulated beauty and gives birth to assorted colourful thoughts and conceptions. Every piece of literary creation is awesome in
Book: Tomb of Sand Author: Geetanjali Shree Publication: Tilted Axis Press/Penguin Pages: 696 Price: Click the link Author Introduction: Geetanjali Shree is also known as Geetanjali Pandey. She was born in 1957, in Uttar Pradesh, India. She is a novelist and short-story writer who penned several short stories and novels in
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Book Review, Psychologiacl Novel, Social IssuesBook Name: Milk Teeth Author: Amrita Mahale Publication: Context Pages: 328 Price: Click the link Author Introduction: Though by profession an aeronautical engineer writing is her ist passion. Her debut novel Milk Teeth weaves the lives of Bombay…not a mere city but the spirit of those who inhabit it. Ira is that character
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Book Review, Social IssuesBook: Women Author: Charles Bukowski Publication: Ecco; Reprint edition Pages: 304 Price: Click the link Author Introduction: Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose. He was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los
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Autobiography, Book ReviewAlice Thompson\’s Gothic Novel The Book Collector: Publication: Salt Publication Pages: 176 Price: Click the link “Once I have owned a book I am longing for the next one. Collecting is a creative act. One of perpetual longing and desire. One is never fully fulfilled. Collectors live in dread of satisfaction. There is that brief,
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Book Review, Macabre ThrillerTell-tale Heart is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It can be considered a classic example of Gothic fiction shaped by Poe’s unique individuality. Story-line: Following a unanimous Ist person narrator, we enter into the story. The narrator lives with an old man. He had no enmity with
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