Book reviews & analyses
Salt and Saffron by Kamila Shamsie My rating: 4 of 5 stars Aaliya is a global citizen of Pakistani origin. But a flirtatious conversation with a stranger on the plane sets her thinking about her roots and the people and stories that have led to her. The Dard-e-dils, Aaliya’s family,…
Kate Kincaid by Henry Denker My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a story of an ambitious nurse who resents the social hierarchy imposed on her profession. After a falling out with her hospital, which is both personal & professional, she decides to attend an offbeat but worthy education…
Two things happened last night. The Best Friend and I talked. And in bed with a bad headcold, I reached for one of my comfort reads – Henry Denker’s Kate Kincaid. I’ve had this book for over a decade now and I enjoy it when I pick it up again,…
The Cleft by Doris Lessing My rating: 1 of 5 stars This is an example of a mediocre (even bad) book with a promising blurb. The story of human creation, where the first beings were not men but only women (called Clefts). Boy children first appeared as anomalies of birth…
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars I saw the movie before I read the book, much to my misfortune. The story makes so much more sense read than watche The Hunger Games is set in a dystopian world where a small group of…
Do read my earlier post on Fifty Shades, if you haven’t already. I finished reading the second Fifty Shades book – Fifty Shades Darker. I retract everything I thought while reading the first. This is not a good book. This is not a good story. These aren’t strongly etched characters….
