Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Discover the literature of a foreign country you are not much familiar with. I plan to see if I can find some English translations of Indian writers while I am in India, because my reading of Indian literature consists of a prose retelling of the stories told in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and a handful of books by Indian women writers who write in English*. When this posts (I am posting this...
of travels and travails (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Besides loving to read books, I love to keep track of the books I have read as well. Here's a tally of the ones I have read so far in 2009. Currently, I am reading Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature, which is a wonderful book that takes me back to being in the hills and mountains of Himachal and Uttrakhand. He describes the simplest of things so beautifully and elegantly, without guile, without pretense....
Book Nut (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ages: 10+ First sentence: " Anand shivered as he carried a heavy load of dirty dishes from the tea stall to the roadside tap for washing." Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there ! Once, Anand had everything he thought his heart could desire. He went to school, his family was happy living in Kolkata, India. Then his father lost his job, and headed...
SevEn cLoWn CirCuS (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
I just discovered a new author. Wait, that sentence sounds misleading. I just became acquainted with some of the works of an author new to me . If you haven't already, you really should "meet" Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Oh. My Stars. I love her prose . It's beautiful and elegant and detailed and the way she tackles relationships......different sorts of love, really, captivates me. I've only...
Book Nut (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
I lost my self control. Really. Look at my list of books -- what was I thinking?! I tell myself that I "need" to read them all, but I've got several chuncksters up for this month... sigh. There really needs to be more reading hours in a day. For A/K: Around the World! (Dora the Explorer Ready-to-Read) Follow the Line Around the World , by Laura Ljungkvist Chicken Soup , by Jean Van Leeuwen/Illus....
let's talk about Digital (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
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islamic Cross Stitch (Free subscription) | 30/03/2009
Assalaamu'allaykum. I had just finished reading "Mistress of Spices" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. This was her first book, but if you had read Sister of My Heart or Vine of Desire, you would find the same lyrical prose in this book. To be exactly, Divakaruni wrote a novel using language of poetry. This novel pictured the complexity of (Indian) immigrants' life in America, while in the same...
The Viewspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
When you hear the name Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, it rings as faintly familiar; a few Aishwarya Rai fans might recall her to be the author of ‘Mistress of Spices’, which was adopted into a movie with her playing the lead. As compared to other...
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