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2 States: The Story of My Marriage - Chetan Bhagat
3/5 This was my review from several years ago, when the book first came out. Still feels relevant. People have told me that Chetan Bhagat...
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Jul 23 min read
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The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
3/5 stars I have to say that Cattons use of language is par excellence. The imagery, the descriptions, the characterization was all...
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Jul 11 min read
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Inferno - Dan Brown
4/5 stars There are a couple of reasons why I rated Inferno 4 on 5. Firstly because after Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, I...
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Jul 12 min read
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The Rozabal Line - Ashwin Sanghi, Shawn Haigins (Nom de plume)
3/5 stars When I began the book, I had high hopes and many expectations from it. That's probably because I read Sanghi's third book...
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Jul 12 min read
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In Search of Leo - Anitha Krishnan
5/5 stars A delightful short read, breezy and deep, exquisite writing and soulful expression The first thing that came to my mind once I...
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Jul 12 min read
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Mortuary Tales - Kashif Mashaikh
5/5 Waiting for a new novel to be published always equals anticipation and excitement – it comes with the territory – even more so when...
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Jul 13 min read
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Flight Behaviour - Barbara Kingsolver
2/5 I was very hopeful when I began reading this book. But unfortunately, as I continued, it began dragging, and dragging, and then it...
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Jul 11 min read
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The Shell Collector - Anthony Doerr
4/5 stars This was Doerr's first book that I read incidentally, and the only reason I gave it four stars and not five, was because I...
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Jul 14 min read
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Flawed - Cecelia Ahern
3/5 stars One review here likened this book to Marmite - that singular yeast spread that the British and Aussies swear by. The Asian...
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Jul 13 min read
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Daddy's Little Girl - Mary Higgins Clark
3/5 I remember reading MHC as a young adult and I remember having really enjoyed her books then. One novella in particular - The...
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Jul 13 min read
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Everything we hoped for - Pip Adam
4/5 stars Pip writes like a razor. Sharp, crisp, it cuts through all that is non-essential and gets right down to the brass tacks. In her...
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Jul 12 min read
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Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World - Gigi Ganguly
3/5 stars I REALLY loved the originality of Gigi Ganguly's seed story ideas. Very unique stories, each with a little twist - the kind...
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Jul 11 min read
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The Fakir - Sunil Gangopadhyay
5/5 stars What is religion? What is caste, creed, gender, or any other kind of difference? What is truth - the real, unfiltered, raw,...
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Jul 12 min read
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Time Stops at Shamli - Ruskin Bond
5/5 stars This was my first brush with Ruskin Bond's works, although since I was a child, I've been hearing about him and his stories...
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Jul 14 min read
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