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Book’s Name:Spark Author: Arupa Tesolin It starts with a sprak. A fleeting moment when you just see it, just know it. In a flash, it’s as clear as crystal. That’s the moment you must seize and remember for ever, for it is your beacon, whether in love or business or life. And here’s a book…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
From childhood to adult
My father became my biggest influence when it comes to reading books. I started with picture books and when I learned how to read he’d buy me lots of “Lady Bug” books. It’s actually a fairy tale book with huge texts – just for kids (and young-at-heart too!). He would teach me the right way…
A Book Worm…
Reading is a good habit which I inherited from my father… Since my childhood not only I enjoyed reading books but I just Love keeping a collection of the best one too, whether it’s a comic,novel,magazine or any thing from sci-fiction to fiction. Show me a good book and I can’t resist it. My first…
Harry Potter Fanatic
I so love Harry Potter. Although I was like a late bloomer because I only got to read the first book back in 2002. I have heard about it before and the controversy that surrounded it when religious groups have protested saying that it’s a book about witchcraft but I got to read it when…
The Alexandria Link
This book by Steve Berry is about the legendary Alexandria Library,a library that is shrouded with mystery since it disappeared fifteen hundred years ago. In this story the hero Cotton Malone’s teenage son was kidnapped and those behind the abduction will stop at nothing to get the information they need to find the lost library….
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera This is a story about a womanizing surgeon and the women that wove their places into his life. When I started reading this, I was quite surprised by Kundera’s style. It was more philosophical than the usual romance novels. His musings about life, love, craziness and stupidity are cleverly packed in this…
100 Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The story narrates of a century of life in Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía. It showed their struggles for knowledge and how they tried to keep up with their traditions. Each of the characters have their own stories, own heartbreaks, own shattered dreams. Some points were indeed comical…
THE OPEN ROAD
Book’s Name: THE OPEN ROAD Author: Pico Iyer Publisher:Viking A very personalised account of the Dalai Lama and his rise from spiritual leader of the Forbidden Kingdom to a global icon. The insightful writing whets our appetite to discover more about a man who’s called the “paradox of this age”.
If Only It Were True
by Marc Levy “What I have to tell you is not easy to understand, impossible to accept. But if you will listen to my story — if you are willing to trust me — then maybe in the end you’ll believe me. And it’s very important that you, in particular, should believe me. For without…
Archie Comics
these were my favorite buys way back when i was a kid. i can’t get enough of archie, jughead, betty and veronica. i have a huge collection before. be it double digest, digest or whatever. however, i can’t find them anymore. they probably got piled up somewhere in the attic and our old bodegas. are…