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Unsung Poetry: Comfort versus Happiness
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Friday, July 4, 2008. Joint at the hip like a pair of twins. Take one and the other will come it seems. But like the lonely child of lovers asunder. I live with one without the other. Without asking myself what I really sought. I hammered away at my life that was fraught. With regrets and greeds of comforts I yearned. And while hunting my goal many things I spurned. Things that I thought were distractions in the way. The love and the happiness which though I craved. Bundled with riches, or so I was told.
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Book Reviews: April 2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius - Simon Wilde. When you think cricket, and think of some names – you might think of several – Shane Warne is likely to be one of them. Shane Warne has given Cricket one of it’s finest moments with his “ball of the century”, which by no means is the only good delivery, or perhaps not even the best delivery that he has bowled. But it is a legendary moment nonetheless. Guess there is no way to find out. The book is not too long or boring to t...
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Book Reviews: January 2010
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Monday, January 25, 2010. Flying Finish - Dick Francis. Bored-with-life protagonists are nothing new in Dick Francis books. But there is a different element to them every time which does preserve the uniqueness of every character. Sunday, January 17, 2010. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse. Now that’s not like good old Jeeves at all! And in one of the stories, one of Wooster’s friend really bites the dust, so to speak. Now what is a Wodehouse story without an overall happy ending? Desperation is no ̶...
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Book Reviews: SLAM - Nick Hornby
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Sunday, November 13, 2011. SLAM - Nick Hornby. Sam is a regular teenager, with a talent for Skateboarding. And SLAM is his story, told by him. And if you think about it, the story is perhaps not that monumental in itself. He gets a girlfriend. Gets her pregnant, ‘accidentally’. And his girlfriend, Alicia, decides to keep the baby. Disturbing? A little, perhaps. Disrupting for Sam? Definitely. But is it really that extraordinary? November 24, 2011 at 2:48 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Book Reviews: August 2009
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Friday, August 14, 2009. Hot Water - P.G. Wodehouse. Ex-flames, murder, blackmail, break-ins, imposters… you might associate the adjectives better with a Sidney Sheldon novel. But when you mix all that with light hearted humour, you know it could only be Wodehouse. Hot Water is an exceptional novel amongst all Wodehouse novels. Firstly, it’s more international than a normal Wodehouse novel which centers either in England or U.S.A. This one has France as the land of the crimes. Blood Sport - Dick Francis.
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Book Reviews: December 2009
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Monday, December 28, 2009. Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis. Liar’s Poker is an extended autobiographical essay of a misplaced investment banker. A BA in art history and masters in economics from London School of Econmics speak volumes about the utter confusion of what kind of a career he wanted to pursue. It’s a battle everyone can relate with it. Friday, December 4, 2009. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets - P.G. Wodehouse. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sights and Sounds of Mumbai City. Liars Poker - Michael Lewis.
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Book Reviews: Hot Money - Dick Francis
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Monday, February 8, 2010. Hot Money - Dick Francis. I can’t remember the last time I read a who-dun-it. It probably must have been another of Dick Francis’s book, Longshot. And that, while it had a murder to be solved, and definitely had some parallels with Hot Money, did not have as much a detective-novel flavor as this book did. The plot of the book is quite tight. And the chemistry between various characters extremely well written. Even though every individual family member doesn’t get t...The English...
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Book Reviews: November 2009
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Friday, November 20, 2009. The Lord of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien. I was always fascinated by the quote: “There are two types of people in the world, the ones who have read Lord of the Rings, and the ones who are going to.” Till recently, I was in the later group. The book also has a very real sense of time. Where days and weeks pass before people get somewhere. Though the movie might imply that fact, they obviously can’t show that. In the movie it feels as if Helmsdeep and Minas Tirith...The Lord of The...
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Book Reviews: October 2009
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Monday, October 12, 2009. The Adventures of Sally - P.G. Wodehouse. When you enjoy Wodehouse for what it’s really worth – the wonderful phrases, the multi-layered (even if similar) plots, the endearing if not exactly heroic protagonists, etc. that’s all you want from his books. And I thought that’s all his books would ever be about. This is a Wodehouse book like no other. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Sights and Sounds of Mumbai City. Himanshu and Maurya: Our PCT Adventures.
