All The Sonnets Of Shakespeare edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 3.5/5 Enticing and riveting unlike any account on the bard of Avon, this book takes readers through a beautiful and uplifting journey of the sonnet sequences written by William Shakespeare. The introduction to the sonnets complements the intricately designed cover that appeals to the inquisitive reader who can expect to find a lot of quirky and fun facts about Shakespeare. It is a sort of retelling of the factual details about the process of sonnet writing that Shakespeare went through along with a descriptive and critical preface that serves as an introduction and commentary. The son ..read more
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She Represents by Caitlin Donohue
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Women are leading the world. It will not be wrong to say that. All across the world women are defying odds and taking up top administrative positions, positions of leadership and challenging tasks that leave others completely spell bound. However, it all comes with its own challenges and struggles against the gender quo prevalent in the society. Hence, to cherish the efforts and hard work of 43 bright ladies in the States, Donohue comes with this book that is told from a journalistic point of view and shares a detailed profile of 43 women in public service in recent days in American history ..read more
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Sunflowers On The Horizon by Writer’s Pocket
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 3.5/5 Subtle, sweet and endearing Sunflowers on the Horizon is a collection of 90 poems by the youngsters who jointly conduct several inter school and inter college festivals and are highly popular among the youth. The book has some poets with two poems and others with just one. It is a charming read. The poems are on varied topics mostly inspirational for young souls who write with great ease. None of the poems feel curated or forced. They have an appeal that staggers the reader into honing their sensibilities for furthering their poetic appreciation. This comes at a time when poetry ..read more
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The Tantric Exorcist by Ashwin Mudigonda
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 4/5 This book better get raving reviews for it deserves them. Told from an omniscient narrator’s point of view, the plot is intricately women about the possession of a college boy by an evil spirit. Thrilling, eerily creepy and clearly well researched, the plot fictionalises the incidents set in modern day Chennai while invoking the knowledge of the ancient scripts to weave a seamless story that is tantalising and riveting. The story begins on a light and humorous note showing the friendship of two young college boys who bunk a college exam that is otherwise cancelled due to strike an ..read more
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Father’s Day by Praful Shah
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 4/5 The loss of a child is a big blow to any parent, more so if they feel that their carelessness could have avoided the loss. It becomes doubly depressing when the loss is not to a natural calamity or disease but a kidnapping. The book revolves around the tale of a family of four who had recently moved into a new house in a village of Maharashtra when despite the incessant insistence of his wife, the protagonist does not arrange for a rickshaw to and from the school of his child believing that they live in a very safe neighbourhood. It is told from an omniscient narrator’s point of v ..read more
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Sorry I Missed You By Suzy Krause
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 3.5/5 Original, quirky and cheeky, Sorry I Missed You is a thriller underneath a women’s fiction. It is a romantic tale and a tale of sorority life when some women come together by chance happenings as they are all tenants in suites of the same building. They strike an unexpected friendship despite their age difference and meet frequently but not for no reason. The main cause that brings them together is the letter that they received which is torn and tattered and wet. It gives out certain details partly but the name of the addressee has been washed off. They each expect it to be from ..read more
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Children of War by Ahmet Yorulmaz
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 3/5 Translated from Turkish by Paula Darwish, Children of War is a fascinating tale of loss, belonging and relocation that members of diaspora across the globe will relate to no matter to the boundaries of whichever nation they claim allegiance. The fictional novel is set on Crete during the late 19th century to the years following World War I. It is based on real historical events placed in the backdrop of a fictionalised tale told from the perspective of a young boy. These tales are three notebooks left by a Cretan refugee who died in Avyalik in Turkey in 1948. The book opens with t ..read more
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Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 3/5 Rushdie is back yet again after a long hiatus with another metafiction. This time, it is an adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote into the modern times. Rushdie mentions in an interview that he came up with the idea while researching for writing an article on Cervantes that was meant to be delivered as a talk. This adaptation is a post modern retelling of the Quixotic tale of an Indian American character penned down by an Indian American author living in America and recounting his past: childhood, teenage and youth as a young boy growing up in what was then Bombay till he moved to ..read more
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Music Men Volume I: Badoga by Pankaj Saini
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 2/5 Do not let a brilliantly done cover deceive you into picking this extremely confusing tale of Sartaj, an engineer by profession and an amateur boxer full of personal dilemmas. As he tries to get through the various tussles within himself while living in the Silicon valley of India, he reckons with some disappointment a past younger version of himself that is full of revelry. While his mother constantly thinks he is made for a bigger cause, in reality he is full of mischief. The starting is terribly confusing as the plot moves from 2050 to 2017 to 2010 and constantly into a time sp ..read more
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Feminist City by Leslie Kern
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by biblichorweb
3y ago
Rating: 3.5/5 Timely and well researched, Feminist City is a much needed take on women reclaiming urban spaces. It opens up a discourse that is like a slap in the face of misogynists who reassert stereotypes about women proclaiming their unprovable irrationality in order to maintain a society based on gender quos that are discriminatory. It comes at a time when the #MeToo movement is not far from reckoning and women are forcing their myriad identities into the urban spaces. The first person narrative is frank and appeals to an upcoming Gen Z feminist urbanism. It definitely puts Kern in a pos ..read more
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