Marker Robin Cook 2005 Pan Macmillan pp. 592 After a long time, I have really enjoyed reading one of Cook’s work. Reading Marker reminded me of why I had started reading Robin Cook in the first place. It has mystery, it has medicine, it has all the makes of a good thriller. It is always…
Cracking the Code- My Journey in Bollywood Ayushmann Khurana & Tahira Kashyap 2015 Rupa pp. 158 I am not a movie buff and I am not an aspiring actor. I do not get inspired to read biographies of famous people. Yet, I picked up Khurana’s (& Tahira’s) book. This should be an indication that I…
Abduction Robin Cook 2000 PanMacmillan pp. 400 Abduction is a fictional account of the abduction of five undersea explorers into an alternate world that exists inside earth. The interterrains, as they call themselves, are far more ancient and simultaneously far more advanced that the humans inhabiting surface earth. In terms of the narrative, the first…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 Atria Books pp 388 Reid writes the story of a Hollywood star of the yesteryears, telling her biography to be released post her death. The plot starts by the star handpicking a not so famous journalist for writing a piece on her. The mystery starts…
Kuch Ishq Kiya Kuch Kaam Kiya Piyush Mishra 2017 (6 ed) Rajkamal pp. 150 The book is a collection of poetry by Piyush Mishra. I picked it up because it was on an eighty percent discount and because I wanted to read Mishra. I thought it will be a collection of his experiences and not…
Cure Robin Cook 2011 edition Pan Macmillan pp. 480 Cure by Robin Cook is a medical thriller interspersed by mafia wars and some crime chills. A Japanese scientist makes a breakthrough discovery and ends up in a legal mess about patents and potential corporate successes. I was hoping to read more about his discovery but…
Navarasa Vinaya Patil 2018 Half Baked Beans pp. 98 Navarasa by Vinaya Patil is a collection of short stories. As the title suggests, the stories depict the nine moods. A brief anecdotal story precedes each short story, sort of serving as a prologue. Each prologue is a super short story in itself though. I found…
Mothering a Muslim Nazia Erum 2017 Juggernaut pp. 220 The book is a non fictional account of the lives of urban Indian Mulsims. The book presents anecdotes from the lives of young children and their parents from various cities, with a predominance of NCR based incidents. The author shares her concerns and feelings over raising …
CrisisRobin Cook2007Pan Macmillanpp. 532If you have read other books by Cook, you would know that he writes medical fiction with more than just a dash of crime, thus blurring the boundaries of medical fiction and thriller genres. About a year back I vowed that I would read all of his books and have since been…
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie2007 (first published 2006)Harper Perennialpp. 433Adichie writes about the forgotten civil war in Biafra and the making of ‘united’ Nigeria. The story revolves around the lives of twin sisters of upper middle class Igbo family. A life spent in realising and living the contrast between the haves of middle…
