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Stieg Larsson’s Masterpiece: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Review

I bought this book to gift to someone as part of the Christmas book swap going on currently. I had seen it reviewed on…

Books12/06<08/29

I have participated in a lot of online book giveaways, but never with any high hopes. To be honest, I have never in my…

Books, Fantasy12/06<08/29

This is the last of Cornelia Funke’s three books in her Ink trilogy. I have reviewed the first 2 books, here and here. Note:This…

I think I am in a very strange mood these days. I have been watching too many sappy movies and reading too many sappy…

Tech11/27<07/17

I am probably very late to the Posterous party, and everybody already knows everything there is to know about it; but still I need…

As promised in my previous post, I am adding this poem “Kabul”, by the 17th-century Persian poet Saib-e-Tabrizi. This is one translation of the…

Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a story of two women and their lives in Afghanistan over the past 30 years…

I picked up Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner, because it was a sequel to Good In Bed, which I had read many years back…

There are some men who equate love with pain; who crave love that brings them misery and unhappiness. The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas…

1. Nish When a Child Becomes a Nightmare: The Story of The Fifth Child
I really need to read her other books!
2. Nish The Great Firefly Lane Debate: Book vs. Show
Yeah, the show isn't very good. I didn't mind the initial parts, but overall, it was very boring.
3. Nish Unveiling the Dark Secrets in The Tailor of Panama: A Book Review
Good point. I have heard this book is very similar, but I haven't read Our Man in Havana, so I couldn't compare the two.