Saraswati Park - Anjali Joseph

Just started this one. oh man !! the protogonist has lots of shades of me in it. His love for books is enough. Story is slow moving, has a distinct western classic style. Let me see where it goes. It is good so far. I may come with more notes when I am done with it.

 

Anjali is an award winning writer and this book is a winner. Will she make my author list? I don't know. Need to wait and see. at any rate I like the book presentation - man with a bycycle (again). watch this space for more.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin

I have no idea why this lady's 'Rebecca..' did not figure in our school days. It qualifies in all terms. Along with so many works that we have made. Rebecca's characterization is so complex. its a worthy book alongside others authors of the classic era. i have already read 25% of this book and I have seen the distinct style of the classic 18th century works.

Miss Kate is definitely worth investigating which I will be doing. Will she make my author's list? Let me wait and see.

Eva - A Ghost Story

Saw a new book and wanted to try it. A ghost story "Eva A Ghost Story" by Mike Emmett. People involved in this book are in the publishing world. Story about the spirit of a little girl occupying her parents office. The rendition is different from others.

This is a mixture of crime and paranormal. To me, other than Eva's ghost itself, there is nothing frightening to put it under the horror section. But it was the crime that was horrifying in itself.

Shiva Trilogy - Immortals of Meluha

I passed by this book many times over during my last visits through book shops. Somehow I was not urged to pick it up. But again, I read about the trilogy somewhere. I must say I am stunned.

The author has done an excellent job of this box. It is a mixture of old and new, internal struggle of Shiva and his self doubts. The book depicts a lot of how life was to an extend in India. How religion and philosophy is ingrained in the daily lives of human beings. How regular emotions and acts like friendship, love, doubts, treachery is intermingles with a discussion on life, of what is right and wrong, political ideology and foundation of a good civil society.

The protogonist Shiva's travel and life in Meluha and its various people, the advent of Sati, Meluha's society as set up by Lord Ram, its customs and traditions, its obsession to Dharma all seen through the eyes of Shiva make it a page turner.

Meluhan's secret to immortality and their war with chandravanshis are interesting. But impressed me after that is the chandravanshis themselves. the book ends with an interesting paradox that just because someone does not live life ours style does not neccessarily mean that they are evil. Like how I heard it once said, blotted ego in a human is bad. learn to destroy that ego to save the human and not the human himself. You have to distance evil for evil itself.

Spinx

Here's the book that I am reading now.

Sphinx - by T S Learner. Its about an Egyptian Astratium. As per the story the carbon dating of this instrument is something like 3000 to 4000 BC. thats the time around Moses. Didn't even know that Egyptians had something like instruments those days. The timing of this instrument is interesting. Its during the time of Moses and Ramses - III. Thats the time when Egyptians believed in sorcery and practiced sorcery. For argument's sake, the book imagines that this astratium provides the holder with powers to accomplish anything he wants. Thats a lot of power. Can't imagine what all damage such an instrument could have done in the hands of power hunger Egyptians and Romans during their time. But then I suppose this is a bad bet at any time of human civilization. I mean from the time homosapiens developed from hunters to settlers, when have we ever showed sense with anything that wields power?

Will update this page once I am done reading this book.

Department 19 - completed

Those who like the pace and speed of Bram Stoker's Dracula will like Department 19. I finally completed the book. Will Hill wrote in his acknowledgement at the end of the book, that he was travelling on the shoulders of authors like Bram Stoker, Stephan King, J K Rowling, Mary Shelly and a bunch of other authors. Well, he was not kidding when he wrote that. The book has shades of style from all these writers... Makes a very good read. It was the last one in the list of books that I bought recently. I completed Department 19 first.

Liked it a lot. Thanks to Will.

Department 19

Reading Department 19 currently. It makes an interesting read. These days I pick up about 6 to 7 books at a time and read them all in stages.. So I am in various states of completion for each of these books.

This one is from Will Hill. Got to know this through a book review. The book moves forwards and backwards in various stages. It can hold your attention. In whichever state or stage it is in, it has a steady style of rendering. The story of a secret department is the run of a mill..but a teenager's fight against elements and himself while at the path of rediscovering and analysing his emotions about himself and his parents are worth watching.

Hope to update this page once I am done with the book.