Book reviews & analyses
I’ve discovered that the only way to survive Monday is to charge at it like you’re on a roller-coaster. Eyes closed, hurtle into it at top speed. It will be over before you know it and what’s more you may even have had fun. You can count the broken bones…
I examine Elizabeth Bennet (of Pride & Prejudice) & Scarlett O’Hara (of Gone with the wind)’s different paths through powerful womanhood.
Discover the wisdom in coping with ordinary life through Erma Bombeck’s perspective in ‘Aunt Erma’s cope book’. Passion overrated, average undervalued.
My journey through the years traced in a different wish-list at each age – from childhood innocence to adult aspirations.
My 14-year-old cousin thinks the Indian Idol, Abhijeet Sawant ‘has nice eyes’. She has his album carefully tucked away between her best clothes. And she thinks the contestants of Fame Gurukul are so lucky because one of them got to sing a duet with him. Ah….it is beginning! My kid…
A trip to the Oxford bookstore yields some cynical trends about readers and the publishing industry and ends in a befuddling find.