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Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
There are altogether 11 short stories in ‘Skin and Other Stories’. When reading any of Dahl’s stories, always expect to be startled, surprised and satisfied! In this collection, I especially enjoyed ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’, ‘Galloping Foxley’, ‘The Wish’, and ‘The Surgeon’. ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ tops this list. It’s about this lady, who killed…
Harry Potter plagiarism lawsuit could be billion-dollar case, says claimant
Friend of Willy the Wizard author Adrian Jacobs says addition of JK Rowling to suit raises possibility of multi-jurisdiction action Publishers could face legal action worldwide over claims that JK Rowling stole ideas for Harry Potter from a British author’s book called The Adventures of Willy the Wizard. The estate of the late Adrian Jacobs…
Books You Must Read Before You Die
Hey fellow bookaholics, I came across this list, just thought you might wanna have it too 🙂 “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die” 2000s1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro2. Saturday – Ian McEwan3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson6. The Sea…
RIP, Salinger
The novelist, well known for the iconic The Catcher In The Rye, died on January 27th 2010, aged 91. What a great loss to those who’ve enjoyed some of his published works. I’ve only read The Catcher In The Rye (reviewed it here: http://worldliteratures.suite101.com/article.cfm/review_of_catcher_in_the_rye_by_jd_salinger) which I loved. As reported in AFP, the author’s death has…
Albert Jack’s Ten-Minute Mysteries
If you’re looking for a quick, no-brainer read, this could be the book for you. Here we have author Albert Jack, using his detective skills, digging up the truth behind some of the world’s mysteries. So what can you find buried in these pages? You’d learn about The Bermuda Triangle, Agatha Christie’s mystery, crop circles,…
Reading your way out of depression
Read this from guardian.co.uk which I thought was rather interesting 🙂 I suspect you need a very individual prescription, but I know that Saul Bellow helped lead me out of a very dark time… This week I was saddened to read Marian Keyes’s announcement that she is taking a sabbatical from writing because of crippling…
The book pirates of Peru: Boon or Bane?
Book piracy exists all over Latin America and the developing world, but any editor with regional experience will tell you that Peru’s problem is both profound and unique. The combined economic impact of the informal publishing industry is roughly equal to that of their legitimate counterparts. Pirated books printed in Lima are shipped all over…
Among Thieves by David Hosp
This story is based on the largest art theft in history where an estimated value of $300 million were stolen from a museum in Boston in 1990. Till today, this case remains unsolved. In this book, it starts with Devon Malley being imprisoned after getting caught from stealing at a woman’s boutique. So he hires…
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Three men are involved in the life of a much-adored photographer, Molly Lane. Two of them, who are long time friends, meet at her cremation – Clive Linley, a famous composer and Vernon Halliday, an editor of a struggling newspaper. The third is Julian Garmony, a government official who is in line to be the…
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