Excerpt and Giveaway: The Thursday Morning Breakfast (And Murder) Club
byWhen the “breakfast club” ladies of idyllic Mount Penn see bruises on Clare Ballard’s pretty face, they suspect her hot-headed husband of abusing her,…
Books
Final Cut by Uday Gupt is a compilation of short stories. Here I am sharing a couple of quotes from two of the short…
- Teaser Tuesdays – Final Cut
Man Booker 2013 Shortlist Announced
byAnd the books that made it to the shortlist are: We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton Harvest –…
This is how the English patient chides his nurse when she reads Kim by Rudyard Kipling a little too fast. Read him slowly, dear…
- Teaser Tuesdays – The English Patient
Love, Betrayal, and War in The English Patient: A Review
byThe English Patient is one of the more intriguing books I have read this year. The story is about 4 strangers rattling together in…
Fifty Shades of Grey – The Movie
byI saw on Random Reads that the book Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L.James is going to be made into a movie. It is…
Through the Window – A Book Review
byThis book is a compilation of some lovely essays Julian Barnes has written about other writers and their books. Each essay focuses on one…
Talking about Harry Potter
byAll that Harry Potter love in my earlier post reminded me that I need to polish up and publish this post that has languished…
Top Ten Tuesday – Memorable Secondary Characters in Books
byToday, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list Top Ten Most Memorable Secondary Characters in books. I hyper-ventilated…
He Loves Me Not – A Book Review
byThis is a short and sweet easy reading book by Vrushali Telang. It’s about childhood sweethearts Jimmy Cooper and Mehro Nasarwanji who are trying…