As I reached the last word of the book, I couldn’t help myself from thinking that I need a break from Indian writers. Nothing against them, but it seems like I have been biased. Well, I do have one more book for tomorrow and then I am seriously moving on! (Sorry, but I need to […]
Month: March 2012
The Odessa File
Nearly twenty years after the end of the second World War, Germany is doing it’s best to forget what happened during the rise of the Third Reich. No one likes to remember the unpleasant past. But that doesn’t mean that the Nazis have disappeared! Still hiding from Western governments pursuing them for war crimes, former […]
The Color Purple
You know how there are times when somebody asks you “what’s the book about?” and you confidently open your mouth only to find yourself faltering and then wondering, slack-jawed, “What is the book about!” The Color Purple is a little like that for me. Written by Alice Walker the book won a Pulitzer prize in 1983. […]
The Fist Of God
Set in the backdrop of the Gulf War, the US & Britain pick up scent of a weapon being developed by the Iraqis known only by the code name Fist of God. Not much else is known apart from the fact that it is a nuclear weapon and, if ready for deployment, is very much […]
Angel
This isn’t the first time I’ve wandered through the pages of this whimsical tale by Colleen McCullough. I first read Angel many, many years ago, borrowed from a library and ever since then I’ve been looking for a copy I can call my own. As my recent revisit clearly tells me I didn’t actually remember […]