Book Review

The Vines

The Vines | Christopher Rice | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 The southern plantation estates have always held and retained the charm of the olden ways. If one can manage to look past its dirty past, there is indeed an aura to these estates. Spring House in the state of New Orleans in the …

Read more

Past Encounters

Past Encounters | Davina Blake | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 I haven’t read many books on the holocaust, so every now and then when I come across one, I get really excited to read it. Even though I haven’t lived the history myself, I somehow feel nostalgic reading it, that somehow my reading …

Read more

Station Eleven

Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | Book Review

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 It is not every day that you come across a book which sweeps you off your feet. A book which will leave you dreaming about the world you just read about. Which will make you want to live in the world which it …

Read more

Trouble Has a New Name

Trouble Has a New Name | Adite Banerjie | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The Mills & Boon Indian Author Collection is always a definite treat to read and this I can surely say for all the books I have read so far. The most recent book I read in this series is “Trouble has a New …

Read more

His Runaway Royal Bride by Tanu Jain

His Runaway Royal Bride | Tanu Jain | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Ever since Mills & Boon have come up with their Indian Author Collection, I have been a huge fan of them. It is simply because of the fact that they tune to my Indian background and at the same gives me what Mills …

Read more

Khushwant Singh on Women by Khushwant Singh

On Women: Selected Writings | Khushwant Singh | Book Review

SUBJECT: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CANDIDNESS: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Khushwant Singh, who breathed his last on 20th March of 2014, was a man with many faces. A novelist, politician, journalist and a lawyer too, he is largely known today for his famous works like a Train to Pakistan, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, …

Read more

Korma, Kheer & Kismet by Pamela Timms

Korma, Kheer & Kismet | Pamela Timms | Book Review

SUBJECT: 4/5 RELEVANCE: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Old Delhi, or Purani Dilli as it is usually called by the residents of India’s capital city, is the walled city within the current Delhi. It was founded by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639 and was then called Shahjahanabad. Home to the famous …

Read more

There Was No One At The Bus Stop by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay

There Was No One At The Bus Stop | Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay | Book Review

PLOT:  3/5 CHARACTERS:  3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Originally published in 1974 and written in Bengali by the celebrated Bengali author Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay, There Was No One At The Bus Stop explores the deep dark world of adultery in the upper-middle-class of the then-contemporary Calcutta. Translated in English beautifully and without …

Read more

Dollar Bahu by Sudha Murty

Dollar Bahu | Sudha Murty | Book Review

Sudha Murthy’s Dollar Bahu is a story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Sudha Murty is the famous chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and the wise founder of the Indian software giant Infosys. In addition to pursuing her …

Read more