Book Review: ‘Jumper’ by Steven Gould
Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780765357694 Pages: 344 Price: INR 459 ‘What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do?’
Book Review: ‘Carte Blanche’ by Jeffery Deaver
Format: Paperback No. of Pages: 448 ISBN: 9781444716467 Price: INR 375 The thought of rebooting a classic like James Bond seems a task daunting and quite scary, but Jeffery Deaver manages to pull it off with much ease and style. He modernizes Bond well and coupled with Daniel Craig’s contemporary “Blond Bond”, little is left...
Book Review: ‘Words of Smiths’ presented by Wizkonect
Format: Paperback No. of pages: 122 ISBN: 9788192569017 Price: INR 200 “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words”. ~ Robert Frost This sums up the spirit of this book, filled with voices of people who feel real and genuine. ‘Word of Smiths’ by Wizkonect is a collection...
Book review: ‘Those Pricey Thakur Girls’ by Anuja Chauhan
Format: Paperback Pages: 388 ISBN: 1100005574861 Price: 350 INR “What sad days for the Thakurs of Hailey Road! First girl is Banjjar, second girl is a Khanjjar — she has filed a court case against her own father! Third girl ka toh what-to- say and fourth girl has been rejected by a Christian!” Anuja Chauhan...
Book Review: ‘Lajwanti and other stories’ by Mulk Raj Anand
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 8122202349 Pages: 118 Price: Rs 110 Having lived through almost the entire 20th century (from 1905 to 2004), Mulk Raj Anand had been an active observer of the myriad changes taking place in social, cultural, political and economic landscape of pre and post-independent India. His short stories sketch the deep-rooted...
Book Review: ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780099448792 Pages: 607 Price: Rs 450 Last year, when I decided to give Murakami a try, the curiousness was to find out why Murakami is what Murakami is. I have read a lot of writers’ works, but never did anyone create as much positive hype and adulation as Haruki managed...
