Showing posts with label Book Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Review. Show all posts
Thursday, 29 September 2011

Off the Beaten Track

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It recently dawned on me that my living room bookshelf houses nearly everything ever written by Salman Rushdie, Alain de Botton, bell hooks ...
Thursday, 24 July 2008

Unaccustomed Earth (Aut. Jhumpa Lahiri)

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In this book, a collection of eights stories in two parts, Jhumpa Lahiri outdoes the humane literary genius she displayed in The Interpreter...
Monday, 23 June 2008

Conquering the Quarterlife Crisis (Aut. Alexandra Robbins)

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I remember being surprisingly relieved when the ever-cooing Sarah Jessica Parker, while promoting 'Sex and the City: The Movie' on O...
Friday, 30 May 2008

What a Girl Wants (Aut. Kristin Billerbeck)

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Am I 'dumbing down' this blog? Or embracing the 'chick lit' genre? Or worse still - 'adopting a religion'? I ask all...
Wednesday, 7 November 2007

Aloof Heroines and Moi

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The hauntingly beautiful Catherine Deneuve in French director Luis Bunuel's film, Belle De Jour , is also elusive and ethereal. Just lik...
Saturday, 13 October 2007

Intimacy (Aut. Hanif Kureishi)

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This book of fiction (although apparently based on British-Pakistani Kureishi's own marital life), is the stream-of-consciousness of a ...
Saturday, 6 October 2007

Dreams of Speaking (Aut. Gail Jones)

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Views Towards a Review I haven’t changed my mobile phone for the last three years. It is a spearmint-coloured Nokia model (whose model numbe...