Title : Girl with a pearl earringAuthor : Tracy ChevalierGenre : Historical fictionPublisher : PlumePages : 256Rating : 4/5 The Girl with a Pearl Earring is Tracy Chevalier’s second book. In it she tells of a painting by the famous Johannes Vermeer. The subject of the painting and the heroine of the novel is a […]
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Book Review : Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Book Review : Faithful Place
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Note : The edited version of this review appears at Womens Web, here. Title : Faithful PlaceAuthor : Tana FrenchGenre : Crime/mysteryPublisher : Viking, Penguin GroupPages : 400Release Date : 13 July 2010 (US)Rating : 4/5Source : Publisher ARC My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what […]
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Title : Remarkable CreaturesAuthor : Tracy ChevalierGenre : Historical fictionPages : 320Rating : 4/5 A spinster in search of fossils. Sound interesting ? Well, it should, because like it’s title “Remarkable creatures” this book is pretty remarkable too. I haven’t read this author’s previous novel “Girl with a pearl earring”, but when I came across […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Angelology
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Title : AngelologyAuthor : Danielle TrussoniGenre : (Mythological) FantasyPages : 452Publisher : Viking PenguinRating : 3.5/5 You might say “don’t judge a book by its cover”, but I did. It looked so intriguing – a large “angel” wing attached to a human (?) body. Yes, this is fantasy, and I was under no impressions that […]
Read the rest of this entry »Summer reading for antsy little boys
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Summer is here, and schools are about to close, giving us parents the opportunity to be the sole entertainers for our little bundles of joy for a whole three months. Yippee-ki-yay! as someone would say. Needless to say I am on the lookout for wonderful things for them to do (read fun for them and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Eyre Affair
Book : The Eyre AffairAuthor : Jasper FfordeGenre : Fantasy/Sci-fiRating : 3.85/5 Oooh, here’s a mystery for, by and of book-lovers. Yes, really ! It is set in the future where book are priceless so much so that there are special agents devoted to literary crimes. Not quite the crème-de-la-crème of the police force, the […]
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Title : VenusAuthor : Ben BovaGenre : Science fictionPages : 382Rating : 3.85/5 One of the books in the “Grand Tour” series by Hugo award winner Ben Bova, Venus is a novel about space travel and exploring new worlds. It is also a classic “underdog” tale with a bit of the “coming-of-age” genre mixed in. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Marriage Bureau for rich people
Title : The Marriage Bureau for Rich PeopleAuthor : Farahad ZamaPages : 291Publisher : Amy Einhorn Books (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)Rating : 3.5/5 Farahad Zama’s debut novel, “The Marriage Burueau for rich people” is a simple story, set in coastal Andhra Pradesh. I was drawn to it by comparisons of it to the “The No. 1 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The case of the missing servant
I’m a big who-dun-it fan. Poirot is my favorite detective of all, followed by Precious Ramotswe and Sherlock Holmes. Poirot is Poirot because of all his eccentricities, so when I read of a desi equivalent, it piqued my curiosity. In this book, Tarquin Hall writes about Vish Puri, a 51 year old, portly, Punjabi private […]
Read the rest of this entry »2009 : Good reads
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There were a lot of lovely books in 2009, and here are three of my favorites : – The help by Kathryn Stockett Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young girl who has just finished her degree and returned to her small, conservative town of Jackson, Mississippi. Unlike other girls her age, she does not subscribe […]
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