Sachin=GOD Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 Penguin launches 'summer reads' campaign Penguin Books India has launched its 'summer reads' campaign which provides a hand-picked selection of some of its popular books. Highlighting six categories – love, linger, lust, live, life and leap – these reads have something for every reader. "Books make perfect companions, and this summer, we wanted to offer our readers a choice of some fantastic books to sail through the season. Our fabulous range across genres promises something for everyone, with enough choice to see you through the long summer months," says Hemali Sodhi, vice president of Penguin Books India. "With something for everyone, our summer picks cut through the noise with a hand-picked selection of some of finest books from our stable. Highlighting six categories, these wonderful reads are poised to be the perfect companions through this summer," she says. Penguin's various genres are promoted through some very interesting tag lines such as 'A Summer of Love': for easy reads; 'Linger Just a Little Longer': for non-fiction books; 'Lust for the Forbidden': for erotica; 'Live Dangerously'’: for thrillers; 'A Live Full of Surprises': for fiction; and 'Leap into Adventure': for kids and young adults. Each category boosts of exciting titles. 'A Summer of Love' has Ravinder Singh's "Can Love Happen Twice", "Like It Happened Yesterday" and "I Too Had a Love Story", Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's "Cold Feet", Durjoy Datta and Nikita Singh's "Someone Like You", and Daniel Glattauer's "Every Seventh Wave". For people looking to read something cheeky, they can indulge in the erotica section with books from the exciting Sylvia Day series and Megan Hart's "Switch" and "Tempted". In the 'Linger- Just a little longer' section, books range from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Oleander Girl" to Mohsin Hamid’s "How to get filthy rich in rising Asia" to "Cobalt Blue" by Sachin Kundalkar to Javier Maris's "Infatuations" to Bapsi Sidhwa's "Their Language of Love". Non-fiction reads include Anjan Sundaram's "Stringer", Ian Jack'ss "Mofussil Junction" and Nate Silver's "The Signal and the Noise". For thriller seekers, there are James Oswald's "Natural Causes", David Bell’s "Christopher's "Red Templar" among many titles. For kids and young adults too there's something to look forward to – "Monkey Wars", "Mages Blood" and Vikram Seth's "Beastly Tales from Here and There". http://www.hindustantimes.com/Books/Chunk-HT-UI-BooksSectionPage-LiteraryBuzz/Penguin-launches-summer-reads-campaign/Article1-1075603.aspx
urbestfriend Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 Behind psychology, searching for the roots by v k singhal, a philosophical take on psychology, an excellent book. I suggest this book to those having a philosophical bent of mind.
The Outsider Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 Not that I disregarded the advise here, but because I was able to get hold of Inferno easily to download before leaving on a work related trip, I did read that and agree with the general consensus here that it is very mediocre. Robert Langdon should retire and Dan Brown should concentrate on plots longer than two days.
Detonator Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 Don Brown's myriad amount of works usually has absurd levels of the eponymous activity. His novels follow basically the same style, Blah Dan Brown Blah Blah "Readers are genius" blah blah "Logic Bomb" Blah Blah "Readers are morons" blah blah "Hollywood Style" Blah blah "Critical Logic Failure" blah
Sachin=GOD Posted July 15, 2013 Posted July 15, 2013 just finished "the appeal" by John Grisham - definitely worth a read. Started "the associate" by Grisham - looks really interesting in the first few chapters.
Sachin=GOD Posted July 15, 2013 Posted July 15, 2013 JK Rowling revealed as author of The Cuckoo's Calling JK Rowling has secretly written a crime novel under the guise of male debut writer Robert Galbraith. The Harry Potter author was acclaimed for The Cuckoo's Calling, about a war veteran turned private investigator called Cormoran Strike. The book had sold 1,500 copies before the secret emerged in the Sunday Times. Within hours, it rose more than 5,000 places to top Amazon's sales list. Rowling said she had "hoped to keep this secret a little longer". The author described "being Robert Galbraith" as a "such a liberating experience". 'Sequels plan' "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name," she said in a statement. Rowling said her editor, David Shelley, had been "a true partner in crime" "And to those who have asked for a sequel, Robert fully intends to keep writing the series, although he will probably continue to turn down personal appearances," she added. One reviewer described The Cuckoo's Calling as a "scintillating debut", while another praised the male author's ability to describe women's clothes. A clue that Rowling was behind the novel was that she and "Galbraith" shared an agent and editor. The book was published by Sphere, part of Little, Brown Book Group which published her foray into writing novels for adults, The Casual Vacancy. Crime writer Peter James told the Sunday Times: "I thought it was by a very mature writer, and not a first-timer." While crime author Mark Billingham, who reviewed the book ahead of its publication in April, said he was "gobsmacked" at the revelation. Rowling also caught out others with her new guise. Turned down Kate Mills, fiction editor at Orion Books, admitted she had turned down the crime novel, which she described as "well-written but quiet". "So, I can now say that I turned down JK Rowling. I did read and say no to Cuckoo's Calling. Anyone else going to confess?" she tweeted. Sales of the novel have rocketed since the true identity of its author was revealed. The "Movers and Shakers" section of Amazon, which charts gains in sales by the hour, says sales of the book are currently up by more than 507,000%. A spokesman for Waterstones booksellers said: "This is the best act of literary deception since Stephen King was outed as Richard Bachman back in the 1980s." In a tweet, its Oxford Street branch joked: "SPECIAL OFFER: For today only, ALL of our books were written by JK Rowling!" Others also took to Twitter to react to the news. Comedian Michael Moran posted: "Idea for publishers: 1: Reveal that ALL books were written by JK Rowling. 2: Sales of all books soar by 150,000%. 3: Industry saved." Author Ian Rankin wrote: "So a debut novelist, garnering good quotes from famed authors for the cover plus good reviews, can expect to sell only a few hundred copies." While an account named Dumbledore's Beard TM posted: "JK Rowling is a genius and proper badass." And another named the Dark Lord tweeted: "JK Rowling secretly wrote a book under a different name. How very Half-Blood Prince of her." The fictitious Galbraith was supposed to have been a former plain-clothes Royal Military Police investigator who had left the armed forces in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry. In previous interviews, Rowling has said she would prefer to write novels after Harry Potter under a pseudonym. Another Cormoran Strike book by Robert Galbraith is in the pipeline, to be published next year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23304181
Ambrosse Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 I just finished Flora, by Gail Godwin (I’m a longtime Gail Godwin fan). She’s so good at writing complicated narrators, enmeshed in setting. At this very moment I’m reading Janet Malcolm’s 41 False Starts.
Sachin=GOD Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Finished "The Associate" by John Grisham - it was a pretty good book but the ending was just Meh..
bulbul Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Finished "The Associate" by John Grisham - it was a pretty good book but the ending was just Meh.. Most of Grisham book endings are bit dissappointing.
Sachin=GOD Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Most of Grisham book endings are bit dissappointing. yeah. Most of the times there's a big build up to the ending and then it ends up being disappointing.
Sachin=GOD Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Can anyone please suggest some good books on Indian History (when I say History I mean books covering a time period from the Ancient Civilizations till about 1947) in Hindi or English...
Detonator Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Can anyone please suggest some good books on Indian History (when I say History I mean books covering a time period from the Ancient Civilizations till about 1947) in Hindi or English... Off-Topic :--D There is a documentary from BBC, check that out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_India It's really good, tells a lot of positive things about India, after Indiana Jones discovered that we eat eyeballs, slimes and insects. :giggle:
adi B Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Can anyone please suggest some good books on Indian History (when I say History I mean books covering a time period from the Ancient Civilizations till about 1947) in Hindi or English... class 6,7,8 ncert history book
Sachin=GOD Posted July 17, 2013 Posted July 17, 2013 Off-Topic :--D There is a documentary from BBC, check that out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_India It's really good, tells a lot of positive things about India, after Indiana Jones discovered that we eat eyeballs, slimes and insects. :giggle: will check it out :two_thumbs_up: class 6' date='7,8 ncert history book[/quote'] yeah, that looks like the best option.
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