‘I remember the little girl from a long time ago, who told the Sarkar that it saddened her to think of Sikh Soldiers dying, their faces towards their homes. How far I’ve travelled from her!’ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s latest book The Last Queen opens the pages of a lesser known chapter from the history of Hindusthan. Rani Jindan, the […]
Search Results for: Book Review
Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
An old Indian saying goes, “Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.” These descriptions are deep and more often than not, […]
Book Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Trigger warnings: Alcoholism, Domestic Abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Rape, Homophobia, Suicide attempts This 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel of an alcoholic mother and her relationship with her youngest son has a lot going for it on paper, no pun intended. It wants to talk about how severe alcoholism can wreck lives and throw them down a […]
Book Review : The Cowherd Prince
I finished reading “The Cowherd Prince” a few hours back and I am still intoxicated with all the emotions I felt reading it. First, let me confess, the Mythology genre isn’t my cup of tea. I read Ramayan, Mahabharat, and other epics from around the world during my teenhood, true. But mostly for the sake […]
Book Review : The Secret Life of Debbie G
It’s no secret that I love young adult books. So when I got the opportunity to read and review Vibha Batra & Kalyani Ganapathy’s graphic novel, The Secret Life of Debbie G, I jumped at it. Arya is a child of divorce and is facing the very real possibility of her parents never getting back together. Her dad has shifted […]
Book Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
There are strange books without any rhyme or reason; just to tickle your senses and appeal to your sense of the bizarre. I personally feel Haruki Murakami is one such author, for the events in his books hold no connection to the concept of cause and effect. But he manages to hold your attention nevertheless. […]
Book Review : Nothing To Lose
Manbeena Sandhu’s ‘Nothing to Lose’ is the authorized biography of Ma Anand Sheela, the personal secretary of Bhagwan Rajneesh a.k.a Osho, the renowned spiritual guru. The book begins on a very interesting note where Sheela is arrested for attempting to murder Bhagwan’s personal physician twice. It lends thrill to the story and makes the readers impatient to […]
7 Quick Tips To Write Book Reviews
The quality of a book is often judged by the reviews it gets. And rightly so. So, while positive book reviews can do wonders in terms of generating a lot of interest around the book, a critical appreciation or a balanced review is really the need of the hour today. It is as much as […]
Book Review : The Kitty Party Murder
Kiran Manral’s latest book ‘The Kitty Party Murder’ is a delicious feel-good concoction of humour and mystery. As evident from the title, ‘The Kitty Party Murder’ revolves around a ladies’ kitty group that has some dark, deep secrets regarding the recent death of a kitty member. The mundane life of Kanan Mehra/Kay suddenly gets interesting when her detective […]
Book Review : The Devil And The Dark Water
Stuart Turton’s ‘The Devil and the Dark Water‘ starts loud, in the strict sense of the term – a prisoner, protected by a huge man, being pulled out of the town’s main gate, people hurling stones and curses towards him, one can visually imagine the cacophony. It appears there is a ship waiting on the shores for her […]