Sunday, August 26, 2007

Growing Pains

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Partly because it's late at night and partly because there's a lot else to do, I'm leaving this review unedited. It appeared in ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Not So Sunny

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Will be posting a review of Roma Tearne's Mosquito shortly; meanwhile, thought I'd resurrect an earlier review of a book by another...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

To Be Posted Soon, Or Whenever The Reviews Are Published, Whichever Comes First

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Nikita Lalwani's Gifted (deft, charming evocation of a precocious adolescent's coming of age in Cardiff and Oxford, with echoes of ...
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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Doubting Thomases

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A longer post this time, a joint review of two books, which appeared in the August 10 issue of TimeOut Mumbai . GOD IS NOT GREAT Christoph...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

One Good Book

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ONE GOOD TURN Kate Atkinson I haven’t read too many detective/mystery novels of late, alas, because I’ve been chasing after what they call ...
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Monday, August 6, 2007

More Hyper Than Hip

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SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS Marisha Pessl Last year’s much-acclaimed debut novel – which I finally got around to reading – turns out...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Slick Gothic

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THE KEEP Jennifer Egan Jennifer Egan’s Look At Me was inventive and well-written; with her next, The Keep , she ratchets up her craft to d...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

Latter-day Godivas

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(In another departure from the Ennobling World of Literature, here's a piece of mine that appeared in the Mumbai edition of today's ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Lunar Module

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SORROWS OF THE MOON Iqbal Ahmed First published in 2004 and re-released in paperback this year to cash in on the renewed interest in East-m...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Manhattan Maladies

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The demands of work have kept me away from this blog for a while; in a feeble attempt to set the balance right, I'm posting an edited ve...