Author: Buddhadeb Guha
Genre: Thriller, Young readers, Wildlife, Shikaar
Source: eBook
Rated: 5/5
Read: March 2015
Later
Genre: Thriller, Young readers, Wildlife, Shikaar
Source: eBook
Rated: 5/5
Read: March 2015
Later
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Rijuda Samagra (Part 5)
Author: Buddhadeb Guha
Genre: Thriller, Young readers, Wildlife, Shikaar
Source: eBook
Rated: 4/5
Read: March 2015
Review alongwith the review of with Ruaha
Genre: Thriller, Young readers, Wildlife, Shikaar
Source: eBook
Rated: 4/5
Read: March 2015
Review alongwith the review of with Ruaha
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Author: George Saunders
Genre: Short stories, novella, dystropian
Source: Print
Rated: 4/5
Read: Feb 2015
Saunders is a magician of the written word. These are superbly well crafted stories, each a decidedly original take on the world around us, and each does the work of holding up a mirror of our world in all is darkest (Bounty, the novella, is a miracle). Where is separates from the later 'Tenth of December', Saunders' masterpiece in my opinion, is that even though dark, somewhere is Tenth is something very hopeful and life-affirming, while all that you will find in Civilwarland is a sense of overwhelming bleakness and hopelessness. The mirror showed such depressing images that sometimes they made this reader want to just close the book and prefer the placebo of turning away.
Genre: Short stories, novella, dystropian
Source: Print
Rated: 4/5
Read: Feb 2015
Saunders is a magician of the written word. These are superbly well crafted stories, each a decidedly original take on the world around us, and each does the work of holding up a mirror of our world in all is darkest (Bounty, the novella, is a miracle). Where is separates from the later 'Tenth of December', Saunders' masterpiece in my opinion, is that even though dark, somewhere is Tenth is something very hopeful and life-affirming, while all that you will find in Civilwarland is a sense of overwhelming bleakness and hopelessness. The mirror showed such depressing images that sometimes they made this reader want to just close the book and prefer the placebo of turning away.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
The Shadow of the Wind
(The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books, in Spanish)
Author - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Genre - Fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Modern Classic
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4
January 2015 (started ages back)
Magnificent. Sprawling. Meandering. Rambling. Confusing. Contradictory. Infuriating. Grandiose.
Doomed, defeated, flawed characters. Caricatures. Swathed in Black and White.
This is the novel that Dumas, were he alive today, would have written. and Dumas is (almost) the reason I read.
So... so read. It's a 3.8 on 5 that I will recommend more highly than most 4.8s.
Doomed, defeated, flawed characters. Caricatures. Swathed in Black and White.
This is the novel that Dumas, were he alive today, would have written. and Dumas is (almost) the reason I read.
So... so read. It's a 3.8 on 5 that I will recommend more highly than most 4.8s.
Monday, January 5, 2015
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author - Mary Ann Shaffer and Angie Barrows
Genre - Fiction, World War II
Source - Print
Rating - 4
January 2015
May all books have a soul like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.
I have become choosy and selective in my appraisal. Maybe even a bit snooty. That's the only reason I can think of why I would not rate this a 5. But I didn't.
But read. Do read.
Genre - Fiction, World War II
Source - Print
Rating - 4
January 2015
May all books have a soul like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.
I have become choosy and selective in my appraisal. Maybe even a bit snooty. That's the only reason I can think of why I would not rate this a 5. But I didn't.
But read. Do read.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Author - Haruki Murakami
Genre - Fiction, Short Stories
Source - Print
Rating - 4
October 2014
Dated Review:
You know that I am fairly ambivalent about Murakami. I do not get him.
That is going to get rephrased now.
You know that I am fairly ambivalent about Murakami's novels; I don't get them.
I do get his short stories. They are special.
Genre - Fiction, Short Stories
Source - Print
Rating - 4
October 2014
Dated Review:
You know that I am fairly ambivalent about Murakami. I do not get him.
That is going to get rephrased now.
You know that I am fairly ambivalent about Murakami's novels; I don't get them.
I do get his short stories. They are special.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
The Silkworm
Author - Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling)
Genre - Fiction, Thriller, Detective, Cormoran Strike #2
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5
September 2014
Dated review:
JKR is a genius. That's all.
If you are a lover of detective fiction, you would not miss this.Go on, what are you waiting for?
Genre - Fiction, Thriller, Detective, Cormoran Strike #2
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5
September 2014
Dated review:
JKR is a genius. That's all.
If you are a lover of detective fiction, you would not miss this.Go on, what are you waiting for?
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