Book: I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Author: By Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai Publication: W&N; Latest edition (9 October 2014) Pages: 320 Price: Click the link Introduction: I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by […]
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Book Review, Social IssuesBook: The Book of LOVE Stories by EKARAT Publication: Speaking Tiger Publishing Pages: 176 Price: Click the link Introduction: “Ekarat is an alter-ego, a self-created role model, with a million stories to tell. He has walked this Earth for forty bittersweet summers. He has been a travel magazine editor, film marketing executive, communications lecturer and
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Book Review, Love Story, Short Story CollectionBook: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Publication: Harper Voyager; New Ed edition (4 August 2008) Pages: 192 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 5 Introduction: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a great classic novel for all readers. \”I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver\’s Travels!
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Satire, Social IssuesBook: Train to Pakistan Author: Khushwant Singh Publication: Penguin; 1st edition (2 February 2016); Penguin India Pages: 192 Price: Click the link Backdrop: Set up in the historical background of partition in 1947 Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is a masterpiece of literature. The unresolved massacre and bloodshed is documented very emphatically yet cogent
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Macabre Thriller, Social IssuesBook: The Great Gatsby Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Publication: Fingerprint! Publishing; First edition (1 January 2014) Pages: 224 Price: Click the link Introduction: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” The novel
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Love Story, Social IssuesBook: Autobiography of a Mad Nation Author: Sriram Karri Publication: Fingerprint Pages: 384 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 3 Introduction: A journalist by profession, Sriram Karri begins his journey as a writer with his debut novel, The Spiritual Supermarket in 2007. But his acclamation as an author comes into the limelight with the book:
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Book Review, Social IssuesBook: Poonachi Author: Perumal Murugan Publication: Context Pages: 184 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 5 Introduction: \”How long can an untold story rest in deep slumber within the dormant seed? I am fearful of writing about humans; … Let me write about animals.\” Perumal Murugan is a celebrated name in Tamil Literature. His every
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Book: Despite Stolen Dream Author: Anita Krishnan Publication: Fingerprint Publication Pages: 304 Price: Click the link Introduction: \” No one seemed to notice the solitary man with his face half-hidden behind the raised collar of his jacket braving the piercing wind and walking through the Avenue of trees as if he had no care
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Book Review, Social IssuesBook: The Thousand Faces of Night Author: Githa Hariharan Publication: Penguin India Pages: 144 Price: Click the link Introduction: \”Her hand seemed to turn me away from the indecisive confusion of my last months in Amery; she seemed to have silently articulated the pattern she had perceived in the jigsaw puzzle that confronted me.”
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Social IssuesBook: White Noise Author: Shruti Upadhaya Publication: BEE Speed Reads Pages: 140 Price: Click the link “I hold the pen,but they control the writing.White Noise happened to me.I didn’t create my characters,My characters created themselves.”(From author’s blog: thestorytellersparadise.wordpress.com) Introduction: \”I wanted to trust him. I really wish he would let me.\” In 2019 there was
