Tag: fiction

Book Review: Days of My China Dragon by Chandrahas Choudhury (2019)

May 19, 2019

Days of My China Dragon by Chandrahas Choudhury My Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars Universally, very few things bind people the way food does. And endorsing this view emphatically, Jigar Pala opens a Chinese restaurant in Prabha Devi, Mumbai, taking a detour from his family’s legacy of well-established Udipi restaurant. Enter the ‘China Dragon’. He … More Book Review: Days of My China Dragon by Chandrahas Choudhury (2019)

Book Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

April 26, 2019

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars When I turned the final page, I was relieved and sad at the same instant; relieved to have finally let the fates of POWs take wings to better skies and sad to not be living an alternate life, altogether.  … More Book Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Book Review: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (2016)

February 8, 2019

Hag-Seed by Margaret AtwoodMy Rating: 4 of 5 Stars [Originally appeared here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/li…] The Shakespearean scent is high in the air in his 400th anniversary year and a handful of reputed authors are capturing it to present it anew in the Hogarth Shakespeareseries. A task so stimulating, so enchanting that it is bound to throw aromas of … More Book Review: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (2016)

Book Review: The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan (2016)

December 26, 2018

The Association of Small Bombs by Karan MahajanMy Rating: 4 of 5 Stars “Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A A Milne It is, in many ways, both a comforting and disturbing thought that events of negligible weight, often elevate to gargantuan heights, lighting and dimming our lives from the … More Book Review: The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan (2016)

Book Review: Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville (1853)

December 13, 2018

Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville My Rating: 5 of 5 Stars I could ask you to look beyond your desk if you are at work or peep down your balcony if you are at home and spot a Bartleby. But I would prefer not to. I could urge you to frame that calamitous Bartleby … More Book Review: Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville (1853)

Book Review: All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy (2018)

October 19, 2018

All the Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy My Rating: 4 of 5 Stars Letters. Those intimate little bits of paper and ink that hold many worlds, some known and some hidden. A best friend who takes all our secrets and refrains from being judgemental. Also, an enemy who slays every icy vein and … More Book Review: All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy (2018)

Book Review: Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (2018)

September 10, 2018

Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini My Rating: 4 of 5 Stars [Originally appeared here: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/l…]   For long now, Khaled Hosseini has cemented his position as an author who imparts a subtle yet searing voice to the victims of war, riots and displacement, especially in the Islamic countries. We have clutched our hearts and have sobbed … More Book Review: Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (2018)

Book Review: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski (1982)

September 2, 2018

  Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski My Rating: 2 of 5 Stars Ham on Rye is flanked by sauces of happenstance and its delectability depends on the preferences of one’s reading tongue. Mine, for one, could not bear its sour, unsavoury ingredients. In this bildungsroman, which is semi-autobiographical too, the protagonist, Henry Chinaski loads his … More Book Review: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski (1982)