When 35-year old Kiran Desai was nominated for the Booker, there was quite a stir created since she was following the footsteps of her thrice-nominated, renowned author-mother, Anita Desai. However, when she won it, people wondered when her mother would follow suit. After this victory, Kiran’s first book was suddenly transported into limelight. Heralded only [...]
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Review: The Land of the Wilted Rose
According to me, one of the most important elements that go into the making of a book is the writer’s choice of words. However, in Anand Ranganathan’s The Land of the Wilted Rose, this basic element itself seems to have gone wrong. The first page itself is enough to put any reader off. At first [...]
Between Two Worlds: Persepolis
Growing up, Marjane Satrapi has been one of my childhood heroines. One of the primary reasons that attracted me to her debut book, Persepolis was its forbidden fruit-ish nature. This book is one among the many others that are banned in the place I come from. Dubai is known for its tax-free shopping and luxurious [...]
Into the Chocolate Factory
Fifth grade was a good time to be in. Since I wasn’t abnormally tall then, I turned towards my school librarian for help when I couldn’t read the titles of the books placed on the top shelf in the Fiction category. She handed me a battered, old copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. [...]
Of This and That
I believe that the real worth of a book can often be measured in what you can take back from it. Sometimes, it is the emotion that you are induced with at the end of a book that refuses to leave you for quite a while and other times, it might just be a thought [...]
Genre: Bildungsroman
At the time when I read books like the Harry Potter series or the Inheritance Cycle (remember Eragon?), little did I know that these were actually the most common examples of the Bildungsroman genre for children. The Bildungsroman (Bil-doongs-rohman) genre refers to novels in which the protagonists “develops” or “matures” consistently till his regrets [...]
The ‘other things’
When a friend gifted me J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, all I thought was, ‘Damn! Why didn’t I read this book earlier?’ I liked the book so much that I started reading up on it online. I saw that apart from the content, the book has had various cover designs that have [...]
Get Shorty
As an avid reader of books myself, I take a keen interest in knowing what my friends or the others around me are reading. Recently, I have observed that more and more people are opting to read books containing short stories. Personally, I love reading short stories and I find them easier to relate to [...]
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