Mailbox Mondays: My March Reading Sorted
byWelcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. I received some great books last week, and just like that…
Books
8.3 The Power of Literature and Academia in The Secret History
byUnder the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of…
Why do Book Quotes Have Such an Impact?
byThe love for books and the knowledge that is obtained from them has become the substance in many ideologies, philosophies, and other reverential thoughts…
Teaser Tuesdays: The Secret History
byI casually picked up The Secret History by Donna Tartt this weekend, and she just totally reeled me in, right from the opening page…
8 The Lowland
byGrowing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they…
What to Read this Weekend if you’re not into Romance
bySo, you’re not into romance novels, all those bodice rippers and dark brooding heroes only make you roll your eyes, but you still want…
Mailbox Mondays: Asian Edition
byWelcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. I received the following books from Penguin Random House last weekend….
5.5 Item Girl: Beyond The Glitter
bySunheri and Suhana—twin sisters who share a horrific childhood—get caught up in a vortex of pain and deceit when Sunheri, a popular item girl…
7.6 The Night it Rained Guns
byOn the night of 17-18 December 1995, an aging Russian Antonov-26 plane dropped three weapons-laden wooden pallets over Purulia, a backward, nondescript district in…
Teaser Tuesdays: The Lowland
byI started reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri last week, and although I’ve probably read only 2-3 pages I know I am going to…