Sometimes a story has the ability to teach us about a country, an uprising, a revolution. Dr. Zhivago is one such book by Boris Pasternak, that takes you on a journey through the...
The Yearling is a book that gets down to the very basic needs of a person – food, water, love and companionship. In a world dominated by social media likes and debates on...
Finding an entry for X is never easy in an A to Z Challenge! It was the same this time too, and I’ve finally settled upon Xala, a novel translated from French, written...
Sometimes you come across a book that just consumes you. You start reading, and before you know it, you are inside it, living with the characters, feeling their pain and praying for them....
In most stories, there are some elements that you can’t do without. A protagonist, an antagonist, lots of supporting characters and of course, a story line. However, in William M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair,...
When I talked about Frankenstein, I talked about how horror isn’t my thing. However, thrillers are, and I love a good mystery any day! I do enjoy my Michael Connellys and Robin Cooks,...
We’ve come a long way in the A to Z Challenge! With the exception of J. D. Salinger and Graham Greene, every author I’ve featured lived in an era completely different from ours....
A sullen, lonely, spoilt brat of a girl is suddenly orphaned and transported to a different country, to a house she's never heard of and among people she's never met. As ten year...
I often feel that there are many novels written about ships and seafaring adventures, but not as many about the railway. Maybe that’s one reason I liked The Railway Children so much! This...
There’s no doubt that we live in a world ridden with conflict. It’s there between nations, between communities and religions. We all have certain views about every issue, and it’s all based on...
This book has been made into so many movies, I wonder if there’s anyone who doesn’t know the story! Jane Austen’s novel about growing up, falling in love, misunderstandings, marriage, class and everything...
So I’m back with another Dickens novel right after Nicholas Nickleby – that’s two back to back! However today’s book is probably the diametric opposite of yesterday’s book. They’re both named after their...
I think I can safely say that after A Christmas Carol, Nicholas Nickleby is my favorite Dickens novel! I thoroughly enjoyed this one, although I wasn’t sure I would. Just goes on to...
The first time I heard about this book was in class 7 or 8. Our English Reader had a story called ‘Maggie cuts her Hair’. It was an abridged version of a small...
The general perception is that books with strong female protagonists are few and far between, and even then, the readership is limited. So what if you have a book with four female leads?...
These days, nearly every movie or book that has a story similar to a real life one has a disclaimer attached to it – “This is a work of fiction and bears no...
I am excited about today’s book title, because it’s one of my all time favorites! Written by Charlotte Bronte under the pen name Currer Bell, this is one novel that’s on nearly every...
