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Review: Famous Assassinations

Famous Assassinations by Sarah Herman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thanks to Net galley for providing me a with a copy of Famous Assassinations by the author Sarah Herman. The author provides information of some of the assassinations of most notable figures in history. Some we know and most we don't. The author Sarah Herman has categorised killings of notoriety from

Review: Kumarikandama Sumeriama?

Kumarikandama Sumeriama? by P.Prabhakaran
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The author have given out some facts that could relate that the people of Sumeria are proto Dravidians and some of the Sumerians settled in Dilmun which is termed as a heaven in Sumerian cuneiforms. The author Prabhakaran say that the city Dilmun is Tamil Nadu or South India. The book made me to buy

Alaskan Storm–Book Review

I was awestruck by the authors narration of action scenes. Ananthsimha's writing is joy to read, The novel has 134 pages can be read in one sitting but I feel reading it slowly might help us to go through the intense action he has put down on the paper.











It's a trilogy and the author has kept us waiting to read and anticipate what will be in the sequel. The subject the author has

Chennai Book Exhibition

Yesterday I went to the Book exhibition, it had 852 stalls nearly half for Tamil language. I spent two and half hours and purchased five books and two comics.Click the above image to enlargeI added another three Clive Cussler books of to my library.(1) The Sea Hunters (Non Fiction) took me 2 years to get hold of this book.(2) Treasure of Khan – A Dirk Pitt novel (my favourite hero)(3) The Tombs (

The Grey Ghost

March 1906, Rolls-Royce Limited had put all their money, and that of their investors into this improved six cylinder engine. Every last penny had gone into the design of that, as well as a chassis meant to withstand the harsh country roads. When the world seemed to laugh at them, saying it couldn't be done, they'd persevered. And now they were on the verge of accomplishing the impossible.Clive

Review: Makkal Nenjil M.G.R

Makkal Nenjil M.G.R by Tamil Virtual Academy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

புரட்சித்தலைவர் எம்.ஜி.ஆர். பற்றிய விவரங்கள் குறைவு ஆனால் தமிழிற்காக படிக்கலாம். கலைமணி அவர்கள் ஒரு எண்ணக்கோவிலை படைத்து இருக்கிறார் ஒரு சில வரிகள் கீழே தருகிறேன் (1) கலையுலக மன்னாதி மன்னனாக விளங்கிய அவர், தான் நடித்த படங்களை எல்லாம் தமிழக மக்களுக்குரிய மாமல்ல புரத்து அறிவுரை ஓவியங்களாக, நீதி

Review: Woodcutter

Woodcutter by Shaun Baines
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dark and violent revenge story. Lots of gory scenes/plot.

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My MGR Books In Kindle Edition

Couple of years back when E Book started to take over
the print books in sales I eagerly searched for MGR books, since I am a MGR fan. Then I came to know
that not even one MGR book title is available in digital format.
MGR’s grandson MGCB Pradeep insisted that I should publish one book on Puratchi Thalaivar MGR in Amazon. And on his advise I published my blog posts from srimgr.com into book, I

James Bond: The Body

Like to thank Net galley giving me an opportunity to read and review this graphic Bond novel.
A different take on James Bond, an action adventure in terms of Bond's body, brain, gut, heart, lungs and final chapter titled burial. Though each story looks unconnected but in the final chapter all the episodes are inter-connected.
Ales Kot (I don't know how to pronounce) is the author and have five

Vaseegra Nadu–Book Review

Fantasy genre is seldom used in Tamil movies and as well as in book. I have read a fantasy based short story but not a novel. After reading a couple of chapters of Vaseegara Nadu I was awestruck on the characterization and the plot. Even the author has given beautiful Tamil names and  they are appropriate to the character, some are, a man with a scared face the author given name is Vadumaran,