The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Written in a-letter-to form, Adiga’s debut was about racism, class struggles, corruption, and morality. Balram Halwai, self-professed complicacy, was a servant, a philosopher, and a social entrepreneur living in modern India, where technology booming showed no signs of slowing and call centers were flourishing to serve customers in the western [...]
Archive for the ‘52 Books, 52 Weeks’ Category
15 Mar
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10 Mar
9 down, 43 to go
I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
I usually stay away from the young adult fiction except for a few occasions. I Am The Messenger is one of those few exceptions. The writing is decent and the plot is engaging without the mind-numbing effect. Yes, the current state of young adult fictions seem to fall heavily [...]
26 Feb
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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Before I started reading this book, I knew I would be in for quite a ride from the many reviews I have read. What I didn’t expect was its level of bizarreness and at the same time radiating a captivating energy. Well, it wasn’t captivating as I would want to [...]
20 Feb
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
I quite enjoyed reading novels by Iris Murdoch. Her short chapters and subtlety always please me. In this particular novel, I found no shortage of dialogs. One might think he is reading a play but in fact it is a novel carried by carefully drafted dialogs.
I was introduced [...]
4 Feb
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A Boy’s Will by Robert Frost
I had posted one from this selection poems of Frost earlier and here is another one from the same selection. A total of 31 poems were included in this book. If you are curious, you can access the whole selection on The Project Guttenburg website (here). This is the first [...]
