Conflicted About Zoos
I seriously don’t know what I feel about housing animals in zoos. In principle, I wouldn’t say I like the thought of animals caged…
7.6 Lost Innocence: A Review Of God Help The Child
As expected from Toni Morrison’s books, this is a short (but disturbing) novel about a young woman trying to accept her identity as a…
Wordless Wednesdays: A Buddha
Loving this giant Buddha I photographed this week at Eagleton Golf Resort. We stumbled across this one while we were taking a buggy ride…
Top Ten Tuesday – Hyped Books I Have Yet to Read
Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list my Top Ten Hyped Books that I haven’t read. I…
8 The Invention of Wings
Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy…
6.5 Reading on an Aviation Theme: Mini Reviews
It’s a total co-incidence that the last two books I read were heavily based around airplanes and pilots. I definitely did not plan it…
Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Best Books of the Year so far
Wow! It’s mid-year already! I am always taken by surprise by how quickly the time seems to fly. I still feel like it just…
Teaser Tuesdays: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
I started reading this book over the weekend and despite my reservations about YA Fantasy novels (I really went off them after my Fallen…
All Hail the King! Burger King
Phoenix Mall is one of our favorite hang-out places in Bangalore. It helps that it is close to home and that they have a…
5 The Thomas Berryman Number
You are about to begin one of the classic American novels of suspense by one of the world’s bestselling authors. It begins with three…