Piece of Cake qualifies to be neither a great piece of literature nor a thought-provoking book, but it makes it to our web pages simply because reading it was ”fun’. Classic chick-lit, it follows the trials and tribulations of a 29-year-old business school graduate, Minal Sharma, in a cutthroat multinational food corporation. Running parallel to the core story is her need to find the ‘man’ of her life before her mom dumps the HT Matrimonial…
Book Reviews
Imagine you were in a fairy tale….. What would you do if you realized it was in your hands to change the course of the story? What would you do if you realized the characters in the fairy tale were real people and did not want to be a part of the story? Terry Pratchett’s ‘Witches Abroad’ does it all and in a very entertaining manner. Three witches, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat, one…
It’s almost outrageous that I should consider reviewing the literary work of someone as globally renowned and acknowledged as Rabindranath Tagore. But our goal is to write about things we feel are worth sharing, so here goes an attempt to explain my first experience with Tagore. Mystic Moods is a compilation of 10 short stories, more or less centered on the inherent darkness in the minds and hearts of all humans. The stories reflect some social evils…
“Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” No book review of Angela’s Ashes is complete without quoting these opening lines, because in them lies the promise of an engaging and poignant story. Frank McCourt’s memoir of his childhood takes you to the damp slums of Limerick where you look in the houses of the poorest of the poor. The descriptions of the living…
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