Salt & Saffron: Kamila Shamsie – Where you came from and where you’re going
A review of ‘Salt & Saffron’ by Kamila Shamsie
Pop Culture
Books, Film, Fashion, Food, Music, Performance & all things popular culture
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The Cleft: Doris Lessing – Great Idea Falls Flat
The Cleft by Doris LessingMy 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 and…
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I Style!: Moustache Ro!
If it’s been awhile since my last I Style! spotting, it’s because you people are just not being adventurous in what you wear!! But I guess what makes this fun is how a surprise might be waiting around any corner, any minute (oh, I really must carry that camera around…
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55ers win over Culture Shoq’s Big Mic Vol.12
So I was at Culture Shoq’s Big Mic at IBar the Monday before last. And for the first time, I actually won. :-p I strung together four 55-word stories that I chaptered into a larger narrative called ‘Monsoon Romance’. They were Here’s my ‘performance’ (with apologies for the garbled voice,…
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The Hunger Games Trilogy-Suzanne Collins : Starts great, deteriorates downhill
A review of all three of The Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins.
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BOOK: Fifty Shades of FAIL!
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….
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Fifty Shades of Foolish Females
Thoughts on reading Fifty Shades of Grey
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Twory: Just friends
They RTed & DMed like crazy.They even read the other’s blogs. Then Facebook told him he was invited to ‘Happy Rakhi!’.So he hit #unfollow. *Inspired by this tweet. ** This unlike previous Twories is actually 140 characters and not 140 words. Perhaps it qualifies as Twiction instead.
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Books | City | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture
The City and The City-China Mieville: Stunning, Surreal & Sensational
The City and the City by China Miéville My rating: 4 of 5 stars Recommended by: Sumant Srivathsan At one level, there’s a story about two cities that share the same space. Not twin cities, not neighboring cities even, these are two different cities that sit on the same geography….
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Digital Kitchen
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