Books…why should we read them? Yes, there are a lot of highly evocative reasons any wise person will suggest behind reading a book- career-building, cognitive development, vocabulary improvement, boosting mental metabolism, rising concentration level etc. For me books can do something more than these, some miracles, that nothing can do…even an Apple iPhone. A Rollercoaster […]
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Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Publication: Fingerprint Pages: 256 Price: Click the link Introduction: I\’m not sure if it is a book on art or on character or on an everlasting conflict between human vices and virtues or the pamphlet of the movement art for art\’s sake. The Picture of Dorian
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Macabre Thriller, SatireBook: The Grass is Singing Author: Doris Lessing Publication: Fourth Estate; New edition (1 March 2013) Pages: 208 Price: Click the link Introduction: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is set at the backdrop of Southern Rhodesia, South Africa torn up in racial Politics of White V/S Black Though there was no mystery in
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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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