The Book at Hand:
One cannot judge a book by its cover, but one sure can get fascinated enough to buy it from the stores. That's how I came across Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghul: Raiders from the North. The royal battle-axe with intricate design on a dark bloody crimson cover was just the kind of thing I was looking for. A quick skim through the first chapter at the store was enough to promise a good reading experience, tempting me to put the softcover edition into my cart. To be completely frank, I had started to expect something from the book that my school textbooks did not provide; the book did not disappoint. The first in the quintet, this book did leave me with a craving for the rest of the series.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 31 July 2010 12:39 |
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 Smart and Funny!
Book - The Uncommon Reader
Author - Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett's hypothetical take on the Queen of England's all-of-a-sudden obsession with reading, and its repercussions on her life, is concise and hilarious.
The plot revolves around how the Queen, quite unexpectedly and to everyone's utter dismay, develops a hobby- Reading. Alan Bennett traces the rather soporific life of the Queen and how it transforms subsequent to her new passion. In fact, he is audacious enough to claim how reading makes the Queen a much better human being, how it turns her from inconsiderate to compassionate, especially when it comes to her interactions with the lesser mortals!
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:48 |
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 TITLE: The Catcher in the Rye
AUTHOR: J.D.Salinger
I read this book during a recent tour around Germany. And I remember sitting in railway platforms and inside trains and laughing out loud, at the expense of being mistaken for a mentally disturbed person. But I couldn't help it. The Catcher in the Rye is a refreshingly hilarious, albeit somewhat upsetting, account of 16- year old Holden Caulfield's confrontation of life. It provides an amusing insight into the mind of the teenager, and his brand of wisdom.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:48 |
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Title: The Razor’s Edge
Author: William Somerset Maugham
Publication: Vintage Classics
Pages: 341
The title of this brilliant novel by Maugham- arguably, one of his best- owes itself to a couplet of the Katha Upanishad, which runs thus:
“The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over;
Thus the wise say that the path to salvation is hard.”
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Last Updated on Saturday, 26 June 2010 13:55 |
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Book - Wuthering Heights
Author - Emily Bronte
Originally published in 1847 under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell; Wuthering Heights remains to this day one of the most passionate novels of English Literature, penned by the inimitable Emily Brontë.
The title owes itself to the name of the Yorkshire Manor where a major chunk of the story is set. The desolate beauty of the Yorkshire moors is used as a splendid backdrop for one of the most vivid novels (of quite possibly) all time.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 26 June 2010 14:06 |
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