I came across an article in Reader's Digest that mentioned Earl Stanley Gardner had written eighty-two books featuring his lawyer protagonist, Perry Mason. At the time, I had the habit of maintaining a notebook with the names of every book I had read. Naturally, I had...
Catherine Ryan Hyde is one of my fall-back authors. When I find that reading books is turning into a chore because my TBR ceases to interest me, I turn to her books. I am able to download most of hers on Kindle and I read them for a break. Rarely have I been...
Parenting Unplugged by Lalitha Ramanathan- A Book Review Image from Amazon. I picked this book up only for the author Lalitha Ramanathan, a gifted writer. She makes one laugh with her posts and I am a huge sucker for laughs. Even in mundane writings, I love a flash...
When something is described as sheer poetry it could denote something exceptionally beautiful or artistic or an experience evoking deep emotions. So, it makes a lot of sense when we describe a work of art or something written in exquisite language as sheer...
This isn't a biography, the author says in her prologue and technically it isn't one. Yet, it deals with the life of Dr. NGK Sharma and the words flow with finesse from his daughter's pen. Then what shall we call it? People tend to veer towards biography of famous...
I burnt the midnight oil for this book. This book isn't a whodunit, nor is it a political thriller that spoke about espionage where I needed to know the culprit. Yet, this book of ordinary men and women kept me awake and I rested easy only once I...
Vidya Sanath's debut novel, Happily Ever and Never Afters, was a breezy read. Her sixteen stories struck a chord in my heart for they are my kind of writing- a slice of life and you relate to the characters and the plot. The book begins with, Echoes of the wind...
Beneath Divided Skies by Natasha Sharma- A book Review What amazes me about human beings is the dichotomy present within the species. On one hand, we have a few butchering human beings in the name of differences- be it religion, race and ethnicity and on the other, ...
World war stories with their war crimes never cease to horrify us, but at the same time, certain books leave you in awe. Often enough you come across stories of normal human beings- men and women who come together putting their own lives at risk for the sake of...