There’s never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the literary rampage. In her newest book, “The Last Widow,” the popular thriller writer lays out her customary spread of clinically observed, bloody mayhem. I lost count of the Read More …
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships Read More …
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author’s name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne Read More …
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen’s lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until Read More …
Maktub is an Arabic word that stands for, it is written. I first discovered this word when I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. To say that the moment I read this book was timely is an understatement. I received the book Read More …
A couple of months ago, I had listened to a fairy tale, where a young girl Alice wanders through a dreamland, ironically exposing herself to whims and fancies of strange creatures in virtual world, transporting me back to my childhood days, when Read More …
Introduction As a book lover there is a veritable ocean of possibilities from which to choose. I always seem to come across a gem of a book quite regularly, and Paulo Coelho’s Manual of The Warrior of Light (Harper, 2002, Read More …
Paulo, is a writer who does not boast about what he achieved or what he wants to but actually he reflects on things that he finds and gathers them in beautiful words for you all to read. Although, he has Read More …
Every time you reread a book you discover something new. It’s like they speak to you every time you pick one of them to reread and once again they reveal something intriguing. I can say this about most of Paulo Read More …
“One man’s food is another man’s poison” so the saying goes.I admit before getting my copy of ‘The Winner Stands Alone’ I scanned a couple of reviews. Out of curiosity, of course! And it did kill the cat (read: my Read More …