This book came highly recommended by my friend and I must say I am not disappointed. I love the narrator's voice at the beginning which says: If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this. In love we find out who we want to be; in war, we find out...
This was in my 'To Read List' for close to two years. And when I got down to it, I couldn't put it down. The blurb in the book says: 'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps...
I have been reading many books by new writers on Kindle of late and Aspen Leaves by Dhivya Balaji caught by fancy. Each story preceded by a a little something by way of describing the various shades of colours followed by a quote made this book even more...
I chanced upon this book and felt that I was holding a bouquet of flowers. Though, I started at the beginning with the child making a sunflower in her crafts class and gifting it to her ajja ( grandfather) and enjoyed the bond between the grandfather and grand child;...
As I finished re-reading the thin volume of Good-Bye Mr. Chips, I remembered one of the unforgettable jokes that I had read in Reader’s Digest. A young school teacher smiles at a personable young man sitting opposite her on public transport. At his perplexed look, she...
#bookreview There comes a time in the life of a writer , when a particular book makes her go all green with envy- a kind of byline induced envy! Radhika Acharya's book The Funny side of it was one such. The very first chapter with her, Imagine, said John Lennon. ...
When Hercule Poirot asks the young lady sitting in front of him why she wants to rake up a twenty year old murder case professing her mother's innocence the lady says, " My mother never tells lies and she tells me she did not murder my father." Five little pigs was...
Flight into Danger...also called Runaway zero Eight was my first book by Arthur Hailey. He had co-authored it with John Castle. This dog-eared, yellowed book is still one of prized possessions. I have never been to the cockpit of the plane ..Did I say never been?...
I really don't know when my relationship with books started. My father's family are voracious readers. My mother's family reads when there are no chores left to do...which is but rarely! My evenings after school would go like this.... " Chandrika, fold the clothes...