What kind of mood should you be in before reading this novel? You should be in the mood for something light, frivolous, fun and touching. What can you say about a book that Bill Gate himself stayed up all night to finish? The Rosie Project is The Big Bang Theory meets When Harry Met Sally,…
I downloaded this book on my Kindle thinking I would read a few pages and give up because it seemed so chick-litesque and very ‘Pride and Prejudice’ but I was so wrong. I got so enchanted by this delightful story of five sisters named alphabetically that I finished it off in a couple of days. Moreover, it takes…
I have to admit I picked up the book after seeing the trailers of the movie based on this book. I was intrigued by the mystery that the trailer was hinting at and being a firm believer that nothing can beat reading the actual book, I read Gone Girl by an author I had never…
a heartfelt story of two girls and their hidden destiny… Chapter – 1 The red colour attracted my eyes and I glanced at a lady in red sari and feet decorated with red colour (Alta-red liquid ladies from Bengal apply to decorate their feet and palms in Bengal of Eastern India), strangely the girl had…
In the crowded space of Indian English writing, one approaches a book with a nondescript title and a publisher-pushed sleazy cover with trepidation. When the first scenes indicate it is set among India’s latte-drinking, mall-hunting GenY set, it take formidable courage to proceed. In the case of One Afternoon by Ms. Roma Bansal, while the aforementioned concerns…
A book by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay ‘Love was one thing, sin was another-and although it was difficult to tell love from sin, Trina had learnt to identify some of the signs’. “There was no one at the bus stop” talks about the life of Trina who is the protagonist of the book. The book is set…