A Wasted Hour Jeffrey Archer 2017 (ebook edition) Pan A Wasted Hour is part of a series of short stories to be published. A quick read, the short story is about a young woman who aspires to be a writer and finds stories in the people she meets while hitchhiking to and from the…
Autobiography of an Autism EntrepreneurMythili Chari2017 Amarabharathi pp. 175 As the title suggests, the autobiographical writing by Chari details out her experiences in the field of educating children with autism, and her initiative of setting up her own institute. The anecdotal account begins with her childhood experiences and reminisces about what she considers are significant…
Love Kills Ismita Tandon 2014 Harper Collins pp. 235 One of the many books that I had picked up at Harper Collins Garage Sale, Tandon’s Love Kills has redeemed my faith in young adult fiction. I had almost written off young writers from India as not to my taste, but Tandon has come to the…
Five Days: An Adventure Krishna Pareek Kindle edition 2017 The book is a fantasy novel describing what the protagonist begins to live as the last five days of his life. The events that unfold, part real, part fiction take him, and the reader, to a world where everything is unreal. At several points in…
The Queens of Hastinapur Sharath Komarraju 2017 pp. 350 (read kindle edition) Harper Collins (Available on Amazon for preorder) The book is the third in a series of book that Komarraju is writing, presenting the story of Mahabharata from the perspectives of women in the epic. It is quite incredible that Sharath has picked up…
Sita: Book 2 of the Ram Chandra Series Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana Amish Devdutt Pattanaik 2017 2013 pp. 361 pp. 316 Westland Penguin Reading two different versions of Sita’s story in quick succession was a deliberate attempt. We have heard and read Ramayana from a male perspective often. I have read…
Why Should I Love You…?Kamal Paneru2017pp. 150 Half Baked BeansThe debutant work by Paneru is in the young adult romance genre oft explored by contemporary Indian writers. The setting is an engineering college, and themes of romance, studies, the futility of studies, placements and life in the semi metropoliton cities have been well explored. All…
The Time Machine H G Wells 1895 (Kindle edition) The famous time travel book by Wells is an interesting on life on this planet. Reflection on the theme of time travel by an inventor/scientist, Wells has attempted to also reflect on life as it unfolds on this planet, across centuries. Reflection on what life may be…
The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonF. Scott Fitzgerald1922 (original)pp. 49BN PublishingFitzgerald’s work is a brief description of the life of a man who is reverse aging. Born as a seventy year old, he lives his life in reverse. The struggles with family, education, and society at large have been presented. A full novel would have…
Youth Isaac Asimov1952Space Science(read e version)Youth is a science fiction novella, written in the fifties. The narrative describes the visit of aliens to a planet and being found by two young boys- Red and Slim. The boys capture them in the hope of taking them as show animals in a circus, where they hope to be…
