Books

12/06<08/29

Inkdeath

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…

11/27<08/13

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…

11/27<08/29

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…

7.4

11/21<12/19

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

8.3

11/18<12/19

Some men equate love with pain, craving love that brings them misery and unhappiness. The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa is the story…

11/10<07/31

Two orphan boys, Bo and Proper, escape from their evil aunt to the city of Venice. In Venice, they come under the protection of…

11/06<06/14

I read this book for two reasons, firstly; the cover looked awesome, secondly because I was on the lookout for a book that fulfills…

11/02<09/11

Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez narrates the love triangle between…