Book Review : The Devotion Of Suspect X

• Title : The Devotion of Suspect X • Author : Keigo Higashino • Publisher : Hachette India • Cost : 499/- Ishigami is a middle-aged mathematics genius who works as a school teacher. He has a secret crush on Yasuko, his neighbor who is a single mother with an exploitive and abusive husband whom [...]

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Book Review: Urban Shots – The Love Collection

Everyone likes a love story. At the end of the day, after all the thrillers, action, drama and suspense, one likes to wrap up the day with a good love story. Not a sappy love story, mind you, but a good one. One which stirs something in our hearts. One which makes one hark back [...]

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Short Spurts

(Small snippets of stuff happening around me – and my take on it ) 1) I’m work-less. Not job-less, mind you, since I’m still drawing a salary, but work-less, since I still haven’t got a project in hand. Am I actively looking for one ? No. Am I talking with different project leads about the [...]

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Why I Continue To Be a Harry Potter Fan

(This one’s been lying in the drafts for ages. Inspired by Unmana’s post, I’m publishing it now ) I am one of those people who shed a tear when a good thing comes to an end. Maybe the tears are not visible, but the eyes do mist up and the heart grows heavy. I feel [...]

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Of Hritik, Zoya and Women Who Don’t Fall At Men’s Feet!!

Quite a mouthful, that title, isn’t it?! I’ve been reading a lot lately (actually, Pre-Ramadan) and even watched a few movies (again, pre-Ramadan). I’m awful at reviews of both, so I usually don’t try. Only when a book/movie really takes up 80% of my attention span, does it get mentioned here . So anyway, I [...]

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The Reader Vs the Nons

I’m a girl. I read. Which works very well for me. But then there are a hundred other women out there, achievers, home-makers, career-women, who do NOT read. I don’t grudge them. Whatever rocks their boat is fine with me. Which is why, when I read articles like the one below, I’m flummoxed. More than 80% [...]

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The Bracelet : By Ishaan Lalit

Dear Ishaan, You don’t know me, but I guess I can safely say that I know you You are Kid#1. The Pilot. The doting husband. The caring Son.The apple of your Mamma’s eye. And while I was eagerly waiting for Ritu’s book to get published, out comes this news that you’ve beaten your mom to [...]

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By the Water Cooler : Review

Do you ever have that uncanny feeling that you’re being watched? You swiftly turn to look, but everyone seems to be about their work innocently. Yet, yet you can’t help but feel that there’s someone around you. Or that there’s someone watching you! You try to shake away the feeling and carry on…..only to encounter it [...]

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Its Here :)

I received my personally autographed copy of By the Water Cooler by Parul Sharma yesterday. Thanks SO MUCH dear Burn in envy folks as I dive into the book and have my share of laughs Will update with a review soon.

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Thoughts On : The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Synopsis : This novel begins on a winter night in 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. For motives he tells himself are good, he makes a split-second decision that will haunt [...]

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