The excerpt written on the inner page is enough to make me close the book in a hurry – it sounds pretty morbid! Curiosity, however, gets the better of me and I decide to try reading a few pages. Very soon this book has me hooked! A memoir/travelogue combo, by author Nicholas Sparks’ Three Weeks…
Book Review – Veronica Decides To Die (Paulo Coello)
Suicide! What drives a human being to commit an act so against the natural order of things? Against survival? Against Life! One would normally expect a traumatic experience as the basis of doing that. But Paulo Coello’s heroine Veronika is pretty calm about death. In a horrific manner she seems to be ‘doing’ death like…
Book Review – Where They Dream In Blue (Bina Shah)
It is indeed a refreshing change to come across a contemporary piece of literary work which presents a flip-side to the current trends in depiction of the Pakistani culture. This story has an earthy feel of realism, despite the involvement of several mystical experiences. Its focus transcends the now-usual emphasis on urban issues such as…
A kaleidoscope of vignettes 