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The mysteries of Barcelona
I read about “The Angel’s Game ” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón while I was talking of his earlier book, “The Shadow of the Wind”. But then, I forgot about it until I came across the book in our library. Not...
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It’s raining men
We have seen TV series based on books (too many to list), books based on TV series (Doctor Who, Monk etc.). But “Heat Wave ” by “Richard Castle” has a curious story – it is probably the first...
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Ask Turing
On the surface, “Genesis” by Bernard Beckett is an unassuming, almost novella-sized book. But a few pages through the book, you realise that you have jumped into something much more complex, and...
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RIP Major Richard Winters!
When I was planning to restart writing the blog in the new year after a long break, I had no idea this would be the kind of post I was forced to write first. One of the books which have made the...
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Dear Hollywood, Please do the needful
The idea of this post came from this article (which I recommend you read, I’ll wait) which lists “the [10] series that could occupy the Hollywood throne that King Harry [Potter] just vacated”. While I...
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Detective Noire, Extraordinaire
Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was looking for some light-hearted stuff to read after a huge dose of books with lots of serial killers and blood. From Eoin Colfer’s...
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The Poet Detectives
While I haven’t read Dante’s Divine Comedy, I have read a few books (e.g. The Last Cato) which are based on the Inferno. But being a mystery makes “The Dante Club ” by Matthew Pearl quite a different...
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How the magical half lives
When I friends asked me what “The Magicians ” by Lev Grossman is about, the very inadequate explanation I came up about was, it’s a mix of Harry Potter and Narnia, if those had typical college-going...
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Best of F&SF
I recently realised that I haven’t been reading my quota of science fiction for quite some time now. That’s why I picked up “The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction”, anthology of best stories...
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A slice through space-time
Now that “Flashforward” is finished (and on such an interesting note, too), most fans will probably turn to the book if they miss the series. And for those who don’t know, yes, the series was based on...
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