Mailbox Mondays: August 05, 2013
byWelcome to this week’s Mailbox Monday which is hosted this month by The Reading Fever. Random House publications sent me a varied selection of…
Short stories
Dear Life
byI had heard a lot of praise about Alice Munro in many book blogs, and I had always penned her somewhere in the back…
Mailbox Mondays: February 25, 2013
byWelcome to this week’s Mailbox Monday which is hosted this month by Unabridged Chick. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nishita…
8.3 Identity, Culture, and New Beginnings: A Review of Unaccustomed Earth
byThis is a book of longish short stories about the Bengali American experience. Each story involves a Bengali family or individual who has immigrated…
Teaser Tuesdays – Unaccustomed Earth
byThis book is a compilation of short stories. Here I am sharing a couple of quotes from the first short story in the book….
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
byI am bad at reviewing short stories. It’s so difficult to sum up a number of varying stories providing the essence without giving away…
7.8 A River Sutra: A Journey on the Narmada
byI picked up A River Sutra from Eloor Library because the blurb on the back of the book suggested that it is ideal for…
A Touch of Dead
byA Touch of Dead is a collection of short stories that fit in at various places throughout the Sookie Stackhouse series. This book is…
Yesterday’s Weather
byI really wanted to love this one. I mean really wanted to. How could you not love a book when the author Anne Enright…
Between the Assassinations
byThere is a general consensus among reviewers that Indian writing is depressing. Well, there is plenty of pretty upbeat Indian writing out there these…