Book Review of American Dirt By Jeanine Cummins

Rating 4.5/5

The book had raked up a controversy in the reading circles, so i thought  should read and give it a review. It tells the story of a migrant lady Lydia Quixano Perez. Lydia's husband is an investigative journalist. Lydia is concerned with her husband going to make a big exposure pertaining to a notorious drug lord called "The Owl". After her husband makes the exposure, the drug lord takes revenge. The only survivors of the slaughter, Lydia and her son escapes to colorado where they may be safe with her cousin. The story moves from the jaw breaking acion and tense plots of the first pages to the more intense humane phase of storytelling in later chapters. It explores the woes of a migrant, a mother's care for her child, a women's quest for survival in a rather manly world.

A review of Where The Crowdads Sing by Delia Owens.

Delia owen twins a mesmerizing tale of a young women , abandoned by her family as a child. She survives in the marsh lands of North Carolina depending least on the outside world. The loneliness that the protagonist face really moves the reader. Delia Owens is not story-telling, she invites us on an emotional roller coaster. The protagonist's affinity to the marsh-lands is well portrayed. She is aptly called the marsh-girl.
Rating : 4.5/5
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https://www.amazon.in/Where-Crawdads-Sing-Delia-Owens/dp/0735219095

Back on the Road : Ernesto Che Guevara

Author: Ernesto Che Guevara

Publisher: Groove Press

Publication Date: 17 September 2002

ISBN: 0802139426

No Of Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3/5

Back on the Road is a personal text of Ernesto Che Guevara’s long journey through the American continent in his simmering surge to ‘explore America’. The descriptions rich with the spirit of youth gives the reader a clear image of a young Argentine doctor’s gradual development in to a full revolutionary icon.

The text contains numerous letters to his mother soaked with love and affection describing to her even the tiny details of their journey. from the way Che Guevara writes it the reader is able to evaluate the perception of his surroundings. His personal views, beliefs and policies become very candid through the lines that we are able to add full color to the image of the great  Argentine revolutionary icon which we each have nurtured within. The book also comprises of many rare  and candid photographs of Che with many acquaintances.

PLUM ISLAND

Author: Nelson DeMille

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Publication Date: April 1, 1997

ISBN: 0-446-51506-X

No Of Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 5/5

Chilling suspense. Adorable, humor packed description. It is amazing to overlook how Nelson DeMille connected every incident from the beginning to the last page to shape up the plot. The reader gets to go a short trip to plum island, Gold coast and Long isle. John Corey's portrait becomes that of an injured indolent slow learner cop in the beginning and in the swift progress of the story the reader can see him taking control of the events eventually  upgrading his status  to a "know-everything". Witty, thrilling and elegant !

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http://www.amazon.com/Plum-Island-Nelson-DeMille/dp/1455502626

The House On Mango Street

Author : Sandra Cisneros

Publisher : Vintage Books

Pages: 110

Rating: 4/5

The house on the mango street is more or less a memoir. A childhood memoir to be exact.  Sandra Cisneros shows us how so much beauty can be encapsulated in such few simple words. The 110 paged book consisting 106 chapters (little, fine, unique chaps) which describes humorously touching and unforgettable memories from the writer’s life including witty introductions of several characters(mostly, the author’s childhood friends, relations et all).

From-“The House On THE Mango Street”(which is the first chapter) to “Mango says Good Bye sometimes” all through the 106, all worldly subjects makes a flamboyant flash in front of the reader’s eyes- family, hair, boys, girls, of growing up, laughter, cats. . . . . . Like Cisneros’s childhood had embodied in to a 110 paged bind. The author had set aside a whole chapter for ‘her name sake’ entitled “My Name”(10) in which she makes lament full(yet humorous) remarks of having a different , “difficult” name –Esperanza- which her school mates observed to be too difficult, sharp and ‘funny’- “as if the syllables were made out of tin and hurt the roof of your mouth” . ‘The House on the Mango Street’ is a masterpiece written by a great woman for the women, as she writes the dedication:

“A las Mujeres”

“To the women”

The work speaks to the women actually and female reader may enjoy it better, but that doesn’t mean that it is confined to that audience alone. Everyone can enjoy it. The most astonishing fact that strikes the reader is that Sandra Cisneros, with her impeccable writing style, managed to explain so much within 110 pages and 106 ‘tiny’ little chapters, so much . . . . .  or almost everything about her childhood. Well, like, the women can read it as ‘their book’ and the rest can savor it as a perfect little literary masterpiece. I found it exceptional, that the glamorous writing style compensates the unfamiliarity and vex a male reader may find in an entirely ‘womanly’ world of words in those 110 pages

Review of : The witch of portobello

Author: Paulo Coelha 

Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher

No of pages:  320

ISBN:  9780061338809

Rating: 5/5 

Totally different from the usual Paulo Coelho styles The witch of portobello recounts Adena’s  life as seen from her different acquaintances , relations and friends. Adhena is a child adopted from Romania blessed with the spiritual light from birth. In the process of her growth, her parents are induced to the fact of the specialties of her character apart from the usual children of her age. Before long they loose her from the usual life to her own spiritual search in which she quits collage and gets married at a very early age  and gives birth to a male child whom she names ‘Viorel’ which is a Romanian name relating to her roots in the Romanian gypsy colonies. As she advances in her spiritual journey she receives both friends,followers as well as foes from many sides. The suspense relies in Adena’s death which marks an abrupt end to the rage from religious fanatics against her  “witchcraft”(They call her the ‘witch of portobello’).Framing her own ‘fake’ death she disappears to a silent existence with the help of her boyfriend in Scotland yard.

This paulo Coelho tale is ‘not meant for the usual reader’ I would say, considering its uniqueness in construction and depth.

A Review of: Murdermorphosis by Jeffrey Apostol



Author: Jeffrey .A.Apostol

ASIN: B00KNI00NQ 

Rating: 4/5











A highly impressive work by Jeffrey Apostol.Brief,fast-paced and intriguing. A murder mystery brilliantly written, embedding in it several unforgettable characters.Especially the murderer, the gay prostitute Ryan Yammet and the brilliant (and muscular) detective Gabriel.Gabriel is unaware of his own blood relations as he was adopted at birth. Jeffrey Apostol furnishes the superb climax by connecting the dictetive's blood relation and to solving the case.A brilliant crime thriller.