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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: Satin - A Stitch in Time by Payal Dhar
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Opening my universe a little more. Sunday, November 13, 2011. Book Review: Satin - A Stitch in Time. I have always wondered why Payal Dhar. And her Shadow in Eternity. Series are not famous enough. For the large number of authors that seem to have their 15 minutes under the limelight these days, the lack of excitement around Payal Dhar's Shadow in Eternity. Or was that just one good innings? Payal Dhar's latest, Satin - A Stitch in Time. Is the first book of her new fantasy trilogy, Satin. Payal Dhar's g...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: Tritcheon Hash by Sue Lange
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Opening my universe a little more. Saturday, December 10, 2011. Book Review: Tritcheon Hash. About a millennium into the future, the universe is a lot different. Many generations ago from 3011, the year in which Sue Lange's. The women in Tritcheon Hash. Sounds thrilling, but also due to the possible chance that she might somehow may manage to again meet the intriguing Bangut Walht — the "forbidden" and "taboo" man — she met during the experimental exercise back in military school. Lange also uses languag...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: Ramayana – The Game of Life : Shattered Dreams by Shubha Vilas
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Opening my universe a little more. Saturday, February 7, 2015. Book Review: Ramayana – The Game of Life : Shattered Dreams. The test that Shubha Vilas' Ramayana – The Game of Life : Shattered Dreams. Faces, is the sort of test faced by any author who attempts a retelling of any epic — How to make the story and the characters appear fresh and new again? We readers, may not have read the Ramayana. Series out of the Ramayana demonstrating "how the ancient epic holds immediate relevance to modern life.".
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: No Place Like Holmes by Jason Lethcoe
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Opening my universe a little more. Monday, September 26, 2011. Book Review: No Place Like Holmes. What would you expect from a book that tries to be clever (and only succeeds in eliciting a groan) with its title? I read Jason Lethcoe's No Place Like Holmes. Without expecting much from it. At no point in my reading did it feel that the book would attempt to change my opinion of it. No Place Like Holmes,. And his Griffin Sharpe comes off as a watery adolescent imitation of the great detective. Will attract...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: The Iron Tooth by Prithvin Rajendran
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Opening my universe a little more. Sunday, December 4, 2011. Book Review: The Iron Tooth. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Series by Douglas Adams. Are an alien race from the planet Vogsphere who are responsible for the destruction of the Earth, in order to facilitate an intergalactic highway construction project. They are the writers of "the third worst poetry in the universe.". People of the earth beware! The Vogons are here on Earth. And they are publishing novels. Is yet another addition to I...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: The (In)eligible Bachelors by Ruchita Misra
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Opening my universe a little more. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Book Review: The (In)eligible Bachelors. Rajeev Sir looked into my eyes and smiled that extra special smile of his. I felt as if my heart was made of butter. His smile is like a microwave. When the microwave is on, the butter melts. That I knew there was no getting away from nagging suspicion that had raised its head from the first page of the book — Ruchita Misra's. She also develops a major crush on her handsome ( "Greek God incarnate".
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Ink Scrawl: Marginalia #2: It Rained All Night by Buddhadeva Bose, Translated from the Bengali by Clinton B. Seely
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Opening my universe a little more. Sunday, April 1, 2012. Marginalia #2: It Rained All Night. By Buddhadeva Bose, Translated from the Bengali by Clinton B. Seely. All that about Indian literatures, IWE, and translations was prompted after recently reading It Rained All Night. By Buddhadeva Bose. This slim novel was first published as Rat Bhore Bhrishti. In Bengali 1967. I picked up the translation by Clinton B. Seely. Some random marginalia about the book:. Buddhadeva Bose's It Rained All Night. Is howev...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
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Opening my universe a little more. Sunday, November 6, 2011. Book Review: Revolution 2020. Chetan quit his international investment banking career in 2009, to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country. That is from the short (but extremely eulogistic) bio that appears as soon as you get past the cover of Chetan Bhagat's Revolution 2020 — Love. Corruption. Ambition. So, does this book measure up to that praise? That is a rhetorical question. For a Chetan Bhagat book. Is suppo...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: Secret of the Scribe by Douglas Misquita
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Opening my universe a little more. Sunday, December 23, 2012. Book Review: Secret of the Scribe. Has there been a more competent writer to emerge in the past year in the Indian English mass market publishing than Douglas Misquita? I very deliberately choose the word, "writer" - using it in the sense of a "craftsman" - rather than calling Misquita a "storyteller." Misquita to me, in his earlier book - Haunted,. And as well as his current publication - Secret of the Scribe,. Or is he a writer who is still ...
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Ink Scrawl: Book Review: Haunted by Douglas Misquita
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Opening my universe a little more. Sunday, April 8, 2012. Fight staged in darkness in a scrap yard in a thunder shower - check. Theft from a top security lab of a nerve agent that could potentially kill millions - check. No-holds barred gunfight in a warehouse - check. High-speed car chase on a freeway - check. Assassins turning up at residential complexes and shooting random people - check. Underwater action scenes - check. Yachts and ships blown up - check. Organized crime - check. As yet another typic...