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Oleander girl

Feb 23, 2014 3 comments

Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My rating: 4 out of 5 star

Oleander girl is the second book am reading, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, after Palace of illusions. And am thoroughly convinced what an excellent story teller she is.

The Eyes That Drowned Uyuni

Feb 15, 2014 2 comments

The Eyes That Drowned Uyuni by Prashant Chopra

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The eyes that drowned Uyuni is a short and captivating read. The narration beautifully swings between the present and past of Parag, of how he lost his beloved wife Mriga and how he had won her. The portions expressing Parag's love for his child tugs at your heartstrings. I also loved the way the author brought out the intimacy between Parag and Mriga without getting into too much details. On the contrary, with its enigmatic end, this paranormal romance, or so I believe, had me reading it twice over because I wanted to make sure what I understood was what is implied. And in the process it made me speculate a little! (And a trivial observation is that the author tends to describe and express everything thrice, in different forms and ways).

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Love's Labor

Feb 8, 2014 0 comments

Love's Labour

Andy Paula

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars

I enjoyed reading this book at one go and later wondered what kept me glued when the story is such a simple, typical one. It's definitely the author's storytelling skills. The blossoming of love between Sathya and Piali, the way they take it forward and their families stance are realistic and never appear cliched. A couple of conversations between Sathya and Piali are actually cute. I would have loved to read more of their sweet nothings :-) And this novella definitely 'captures the very essence of being South Asian', as Indireads claims itself to be. On the flip side, I felt the book ended a little abrupt.

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Yay! (BM #28)

Jan 31, 2014 1 comments

The Blogathon is over :-) And I posted every single day from the time I took it up. And I have been enjoying it immensely. This was inspite of the fact that my laptop failed me few weeks back. I had been posting through my iPod touch and it did come with its own limitations owing to which some of my posts had bad formatting and I couldn't read other blogs and comment enough. And auto posting of reviews from goodreads too failed and I couldn't figure out why but ended up posting reviews manually. There were 61 other bloggers taking part in the marathon and I wanted to read all of them. Unfortunately, I did not even cross 20 approximately.

But am so glad that I managed to post everyday and am going to continue with this trend as much as possible. So, as I had mentioned in my post here, am starting off with 'Characters of Mahabharatha' in a couple of days. The couple of days is for me to prepare myself. Still am planning to post updates on this tomorrow.

Another good thing is I enrolled for the online course in Coursera 'Crafting an effective writer' which starts on feb 7th. I hope to complete that too and make my writing a little better because when I read my old posts (especially About me section), am not really happy about the job I had done.

Putting my objectives in writing definitely makes me more focused :-) and 'Yay!!!' once again for the successful Blogathon and 'Congratulations!' to everyone who pulled it through.