29 November 2016

Author Q&A Session #86: With John Lansing

Hello friends and readers, We meet after a long while. Hope you all are doing fine and having a great day. And with the holidays just around the corner, I also hope that you all are getting your shopping done to your heart's fullest content. May the never-ending Christmas and Thanksgiving wishlist keeps growing! Well about me, I'm great, just got back from a short weekend trip from the beachside...

Review #564: A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.” ----Louisa May Alcott First let's just wish this talented and brilliant author, Louisa May Alcott, a very, very Happy 184th Birthday and we will only hope that her stories be loved, read and adored by...

28 November 2016

Review #563: The High Priestess Never Marries by Sharanya Manivannan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ----Robert A. Heinlein Sharanya Manivannan, an Indian...

Review #562: Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ---- Charlotte Bronte Cecelia Ahern, the #1 international bestselling author, pens her new contemporary fiction, Lyrebird which reads like a breathy timeless romantic fantasy...

Review #561: Mr. Eternity by Aaron Thier

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ----Virginia Woolf Aaron Thier, an American author, has penned a terrific...

23 November 2016

Review #560: The Secret of a Heart Note by Stacey Lee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own” ----Fernando Pessoa Stacey Lee, a Chinese-American author, pens a charming tale of young love and perfume in her new young adult book, The Secret of a Heart Note that revolves around a teenage perfume maker,...

22 November 2016

Review #559: The Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.” ----Peter Høeg Leah Kaminsky, an award winning Australian author, has penned a terrific and extremely soul touching story in her...

Review #558: Reliance, Illinois by Mary Volmer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale...

20 November 2016

Review #557: The Spy by Paulo Coelho, Zoë Perry (Translator)

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.” ----Mata Hari Paulo Coelho, the international bestselling author, pens a gripping and part fictional tale on the life...

Review #556: Immortal by Krishna Udayasankar

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” ----William H. Gass Krishna Udayasankar, an Indian bestselling author, pens an enlightening and highly thrilling part fantasy and part mythology book, Immortal that revolves around...

17 November 2016

Review #555: I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” ----Chuck Palahniuk Rae Meadows, an award winning author, pens a heart wrenching story about a farm family in her new novel, I Will Send Rain that centers around the Bell family who have migrated...

15 November 2016

Review #554: This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles, #7) by Jeffrey Archer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” ----Rick Riordan Jeffrey Archer, the international bestselling author, is back with the final installment in The...

10 November 2016

Review #553: Like a River Glorious (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #2) by Rae Carson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.” ----Charles Dickens Rae Carson, the New York Times best selling author, is back with the most awaited sequel of her young adult fantasy...

Review #552: The Silent Ones by Ali Knight

My rating: 2 of 5 stars “A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ----Carlos Ruiz Zafón Ali Knight, an English author, is back again with yet another enticing psychological thriller, The Silent Ones that revolves around the abduction of five teenage girls by a strange...

Review #551: The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) by Agatha Christie

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.” ----Agatha Christie Agatha Christie, the Queen of Mystery, has spun and extremely intriguing crime fiction and the thirteenth tale from her Hercule Poirot series called,...

8 November 2016

Review #550: Instructions for a Second-hand Heart by Tamsyn Murray

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.” ----Cassandra Clare Tamsyn Murray, an English author, pens a soul touching and riveting young adult contemporary fiction in her new book, Instructions for a Second-hand Heart that is centered around two young teenagers, one...

Review #549: The Lost Ones by Ben Cheetham

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.” ----Chuck Barris Ben Cheetham, an award winning English author, pens a dark and an intriguing family thriller, The Lost Ones which centers around the mystery of a little missing girl...

3 November 2016

Review #548: Daughters of Jorasanko by Aruna Chakravarti

My rating: 5 of 5 stars "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." ----Rabindranath Tagore Aruna Chakravarti, an award winning Indian writer, pens an enlightening story about the Tagore household's women in her new book, Daughters of...

2 November 2016

Review #547: The Private Life of Mrs Sharma by Ratika Kapur

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.” ----Marilyn Monroe Ratika Kapur, an India writer, pens a heart felt and very intimate tale of a middle aged married woman's life and thoughts in her upcoming book, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma...

1 November 2016

Review #546: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.” ----Nathaniel Branden Bryn Greenwood, an American author, pens a heart wrenching and sad tale about abuse and love in her new book,...