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April 3, 2014
Cut like Wound by Anita Nair
Cut Like Wound by Anita NairMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Its not a classic who-dun-it, but Anita's words bring alive a side of Bangalore that not many of us would know.The pace is a little slow , but atmospheric, making it an an extremely clever book to spend time with. Though Inspector Gowda is no heart-throb, Anita has chiselled his character well.Lots of research has gone into the making of this book , and it shows. But a word of caution: do not pick this book up because you liked Ladies C...
March 30, 2014
My Writing Process blog Tour : Meet two fabulous writers!
I started interacting with Roopa Menon, author of Pyar aur Poetry over Goodreads. I jumped at the idea of reading her novella and my first e-book( yeah, I am a dinosaur like that) as I had heard great things about the book. My interest was piqued and 30,000 or so words later, I realised that I thoroughly enjoyed reading her book! Read my review here http://bedazzledeternally.blogspot.in... some of the lovely reviews her...
March 15, 2014
Pyar aur poetry by Roopa Menon
Book name : Pyar Aur poetry
Genre: Romance
Publisher : Indireads
Copy source : Author
Rating : 3.5 ***
Synopsis from Goodreads
College beauty Arundhati Basu would rather stick her head in the proverbial oven than host this year’s Founder’s Day event with tongue-tied nerd, Nikhil Menon. Compared to the brilliant but elusive poet, D. G. Beckett, Nikhil is a green toad.
As Arundhati gets to know him, however, she finds herself oddly drawn to the shy geek, and he, in turn,...
February 19, 2014
Bookshelf'd part 2 - Peek into Ridhi's personal collection
Ridhi Malhotra blogs at http://randomrings.wordpress.com/ and is a super sweet person. She is a book lover and has some reading quirks as well that are oh-so-endearing! The sweetest ones are that she picks up bookmarks of the same colour as the cover of the book and that she starts reading the last chapter of the book and progresses to the beginning. She jokingly says , " What if I die in between , I should know how the book ends." Delightful , right? Here's a pic of Ridhi's...
February 5, 2014
Bookshelf'd Part 1 : A tour into Anuja's book-space
The happiest thing for a book addict is to see a well-populated book shelf , bulging under the weight of crisp and shiny new books. Anuja's book shelves made me salivate ,the minute I took one look at the photos she shared with me. This is Part one of a series where I'll take you into personal libraries of fellow book lovers. Anuja is a medical student with a serious book addiction( her shelves are a testimonial to that) .She is a warm , sweet girl who blogs at http://thegalwithth...
January 29, 2014
"Expected a little more fire in the book!" says Sarada Sukhavanan
Technically , the first I-didn't-like-the-book review is up on Goodreads. The barometer was that it would have to be from someone I didn't know personally and it wouldn't talk about a single redeeming feature of the book. People who know you are never 100% honest when it comes to such endeavours, and often end up saying luke-warmy-I-loved-it thingees ( which btw are fun to read on a day when you are feeling like the world is out to get you ).
Strangely, I didn't feel like I w...
January 11, 2014
Siddharth Krishnan's review..
An easy going, modern age book telling the story from the perspective of a 29 year old, married Chennai girl, this book will make you smile and agree at various junctures. The book actually ends up covering a lot of issues in a short span and you begin to wonder how the Author has woven all of them together. But must appreciate the author's efforts to keep the reader hooked on though honestly I skipped the whole serial story sequence. If you are reading the Kindle edition , you might end up g...
January 7, 2014
Review from Otee..
Posted on : Goodreads
Rating : ****/5
Disclaimer: this isn't a proper review - it is a presentation of jumbled thoughts that I had about the book in no specific order (though I tried to organize it somewhat). It might resemble a badly organized bullet point presentation.
Overview: I've read "The Crossover Year" and enjoyed every bit of it.
The story is about the life of Sri Anu Prabha at that point in time when a girl heading towards discovering her life's purpose.
The story narrated in first pers...
Rating : ****/5
Disclaimer: this isn't a proper review - it is a presentation of jumbled thoughts that I had about the book in no specific order (though I tried to organize it somewhat). It might resemble a badly organized bullet point presentation.
Overview: I've read "The Crossover Year" and enjoyed every bit of it.
The story is about the life of Sri Anu Prabha at that point in time when a girl heading towards discovering her life's purpose.
The story narrated in first pers...
What Sarita had to say..
Posted on Goodreads.com
At the outset, let's get one thing out of the way. A love story and numerous scenes featuring physical intimacy have become the staple of the chick-lit genre. I guess one tends to expect them too. But herein lies the strength of the book - it doesn't have these. The protagonist Anu, is married (she loves the husband very much, so there's none of the predictable 'devilishly handsome ex-boyfriend showing up suddenly' plot point usually employed in such cases).
The Crossove...
January 5, 2014
Sweet Privy had some interesting questions.. read on :)
What a lovely bunch of questions..Bloggers and book lovers like Privy are a boon to new writers. Do visit her space for more author interviews and book reviews.
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Today @Behind the book we have Ms. Bhargavi Balachandran the author of the newly released book The Crossover Year.
The book’s blurb says:
"Meet Sri Anuprabha, aka Anu, a twenty-nine year-old banker who is terrified of entering her thirties. She dreams of quitting her job at the bank, sporting yoga pants...
