Books & Storytelling is for the stories we read and the ones we accidentally live inside. These pieces are about books, authors, characters, memory, narrative, and the way stories shape how we understand people, families, women, silence, reputation, and ourselves.
I read Inferno a while ago. Not Dante’s Inferno. Dan Brown’s. I used to be a big fan of his and have read all his books with enthusiasm. Since reading the Lost Symbol, I had started to feel a bit disillusioned. Inferno just took that feeling to completion!
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Some people love to talk and some people you love to talk to. Ruchita Misra is both of them. I know her from work and if our conversations are any indication, The (In)Eligible Bachelors will be a funny and interesting book. It is about marriages, arranged at that. Everyone (like yours truly) who has lived thru that
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Love, A Rather Bad Idea by Anirban Mukherjee My rating: 1 of 5 stars I picked this on an online shopping site… and even with the 15% discount, the book ain’t worth it…. i can think of much better ways to spend 85 bucks – ice candy for 17 straight days, a chicken burger, junk
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Sometimes when you read a good book, its like a journey with a good friend. When the book ends you feel like you have had a great time and a pang that it has ended. I feel it with only captivating books. I’d spend long nights reading and actually feel a bit bad that the
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This is the top 100 books to read list from BBC. – 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper
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