Milk Teeth by Amrita Mahale

Book 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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Women by Charles Bukowski

 Book: 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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Alice Thompson\’s Gothic Novel The Book Collector

Alice 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 Thriller

Tell-tale Heart, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Tell-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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Book Review, Short Story Collection

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Book Review

  The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Book: The House on Mango Street Author: Sandra Cisneros. Publication: Vintage Pages: 144 Price: click the link           Author Introduction: Sandra Cisneros ( born 1954 ) is a Mexican-American writer. She is best known for her debut novel, The House on Mango Street (1983) which we

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Autobiography, Book Review, Classic Novels, Social Issues

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

  Book: Girls Burn Brighter Author: Shobha Rao Publication: Flatiron Books Pages: 320 Price: Click the link             Author Introduction: Shobha Rao is an Indian-American novelist. Her debut novel is Girls Burn Brighter, (2018). Her other works include An Unrestored Woman, a short story collection. She confesses that she celebrates the ‘incredible courage’ of

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Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke

Book: Love Comes Softly Author: Janette Oke Publication: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group; Revised edition (1 April 2003) Pages: 240 Price: Click the link     https://www.canadianchristianleaders.org/leader/janette-oke/   Janette Oke is a Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke reading Janette. Her first novel, Love Comes Softly, was published by Bethany House in 1979.

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Book Review, Love Story

You are the Poem by Jill Sharon Kimmelman

Author Introduction: Poetess and critic, USA, Jill Sharon Kimmelman\’s poesies always celebrate life… earthly, mundane, home life imbued in ethereal joy and happiness, sorrows and expectations. She was born amidst the verdant beauty of nature surrounded by a wide-stretched beautiful dairy cattle farm in Pemberton, New Jersey. She went to Moorestown High School. She studied

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Book Review, Poetry Collection

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Book: Norwegian Wood Author: Haruki Murakami Publication: RHUK; Latest edition (17 May 2001) Pages: 400 Price: Click the link below Introduction: Haruki Murakami, a best-selling Japanese writer is famous for his surrealistic interplay of characters and emotions. And Norwegian Wood (1987) is in no way an exception to his unique style. Murakami’s first novel was  Hear

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