When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the … Continue reading THE WIFE BETWEEN US
My first book by this author. Loved it through and through. Friendship between Tully and Kate. Tully is a successful woman with a sad past. Life changes when Kate dies of cancer. Tully is the Godmother of Kate’s daughter,Marah who … Continue reading Fly away by Kristin Hannah
Legends and Adventures of Guru Angad the second Sikh Guru. The author has written this book from Mata Sulakhani’s point of view. The author has tried to bring forward Mata Sulakhani’s struggle as a single mother when Guru Nanak Devji … Continue reading Into The Great Heart by Kamla K. Kapur
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked … Continue reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz
One book that I read long time back and still remains in my memory. This book was suggested by my grandmother. While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naïve … Continue reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Domestic Violence is something that we consider synonymous to the uneducated people. But it happens every where, it is a vicious web from which it is difficult to come out of. There is a lack of self esteem on the … Continue reading What is domestic violence?
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and … Continue reading Educated by Tara Westover
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter … Continue reading The help
IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE TWO NATIONS. ONE WAS A vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swathe of the earth. The other was an undeveloped, semi-feudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was India. The second was England.”
― Alex von Tunzelmann, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
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The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they’ve kept for decades. The novel opens just as Joe is about to receive a prestigious international … Continue reading The Wife
