Sisterland – Curtis Sittenfeld: Two Sides To The Story
A review of ‘Sisterland’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Book Review: Love Rehab by Jo Piazza
Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps by Jo PiazzaMy rating: 3 of 5 stars Since ChickLit, there’s been a host of books in a new genre I’m going to call ‘This is not ChickLit’. Love Rehab is one of this type. It is about relationships and there is romance,…
The Devil, The Lovers & Me – Kimberlee Auerbach
The Devil, the Lovers, and Me: My Life in Tarot by Kimberlee AuerbachMy rating: 3 of 5 stars A nice story, Chick Lit with a twist, since the heroine’s story is told in associations that emerge in a tarot reading. It feels more like light fiction than the autobiography that…
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E & E Squared: Matt Beaumont – Never A Dull Byte In The Inbox
Matt Beaumont’s twin books are a delightful duo of workplace complications and lagging behind everyone else, written in epistolary format – E & E Squared.
BOOK: Take It Off! – Taylor Cole & Justin Whitfield: Like A Naughty But Harmless Lapdance
Take It Off! by Taylor Cole & Justin WhitfieldMy rating: 2 of 5 stars I wouldn’t have picked this book off a bookshelf. I don’t go in for biographies and these ‘famous/unlikely people’s life stories’ format hasn’t appealed to me so far. But the title hooked me when I saw…
Beyond Eden-Kele Moon: It Was All About The Sex
I was curious about erotic literature, especially after the horrendous 50 Shades of Grey and the rather insipid S.E.C.R.E.T. Much of sex really is about things other than the act, secrets, emotions, grief, nostalgia, family and promises. I’m coming to believe that good erotica is a story that recognizes this….
MayShortReads 02: Treble and Bass
“Flowers and chocolate. Jewellery is always welcome, of course. And don’t be shy of perfumes.” Sheena announced. A grunt was all she got for her airy declarations, before Ajit turned to the waiter. Sheena slumped back in her seat, downcast. Maybe talking about jewelery and perfume was a bit much….
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Bookworm Adventures
It’s no secret, my grand love affair with books. I’ve also written about my obsession with bookstores, big and small. Flipkart has replaced Landmark in my affections because it’s so much more convenient. But I do miss the adventuring that went with real world, poking-through-shelves book browsing. A bookworm needs…
S.E.C.R.E.T. – L Marie Adeline: As Safe & Bland as Vanilla
I first heard about S.E.C.R.E.T. in online forums discussing (and bashing) 50 Shades of Grey. 50 Shades, of course, had achieved cult status, a sort of adult Twilight for our times. Its terrible nature notwithstanding, 50 Shades may have brought the genre of sexual writing into popular and acceptable bookshelves….
Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert: Desperate Housewife in the 1800s
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertMy rating: 2 of 5 stars The original is in French and I read the English translation by Alan Russell (Penguin Popular Classics). I’m rather a novice with reading the classics so the writing seemed rather excessively descriptive and flowery to me. Perhaps with some books,…