Jairammohan

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• The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – Book Review

  

  Book Blurb : Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment i... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Rhinoceros – Colin Forbes – Book Review

  

  Book Blurb : Colin Forbes' perennially popular and energetic team of characters, Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman, are on the trail of five heads of state who... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fall of Giants – Ken Follett – Book Review

  

  Book Blurb : It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh – Book Review

  

  Book Blurb: At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak o... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Magicians of Mazda – Ashwin Sanghi – Book Review

  

  "The Magicians of Mazda" by Ashwin Sanghi is conspiracy fiction (for lack of a better term to describe the genre) at his best. The author takes up Zarathustra,... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie – Book Review

  

  Just finished re-reading "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" which not only marked the debut of Agatha Christie the author, but also of a fan favorite detective,... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese – Book Review

  

  "Wow", simply "Wow", is the only way I can express my feeling as I finish the book " The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese. While I have read more than a... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2024 SELF EXPRESSION

• Prophet Song – Paul Lynch – Book Review

  

  When I happened to read the news regarding Paul Lynch winning the 2023 Booker Prize for his book, Prophet Song, I just read the blurb of the book out of... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2023 SELF EXPRESSION

• Yama’s Lieutenant – Anuja Chandramouli – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: The inhabitants of the thousand hells of Yama have broken free from their prison and vowed to wreak havoc on the heavens, the earth and hell. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Stolen Hope – Shubha Vilas – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: In the evil labyrinths of Dandakaranya forest, human values are put to test. Rama’s righteousness, Lakshmana’s loyalty and Sita’s endurance... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Shattered Dreams – Shubha Vilas – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: Shattered Dreams is the sequel to the national bestseller, Rise of the Sun Prince, in the new spiritual and motivational series Ramayana – The... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Rise of the Sun Prince – Shubha Vilas – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: Ramayana: The Game of Life (Book 1), one of the world’s great literary masterpieces, skillfully retold for modern audiences. Epics like the... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Loyalty Net – Sharath Komarraju – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: Mumbai. 2150 AD. India is the world’s biggest economic powerhouse, a global supplier of robots. At the seat of all development in the country i... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fluence – Stephen Oram – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: It’s the week before the annual Pay Day when strata positions are decided by the controlling corporations. The social media feed is frenetic... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Karachi Deception – Shatrujeet Nath – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: Project Abhimanyu — an audacious plot hatched by the RAW and Indian Army intelligence to assassinate Mumbai’s dreaded underworld don Irshad... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2016 BOOKS

• My Grandmother Sends Her Regards & Apologises – Fredrik Backman – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: From the author of the internationally bestselling ‘A Man Called Ove’, a novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Patang – Bhaskar Chattopadhyay – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: ‘I hate the rain…I hate it, hate it, hate it. But the rain can’t stop me. No one can…I’ll go out and play tonight. I will kill only four. No... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Killing Floor – Lee Child – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: Killing Floor is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as th... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Captain America : Civil War – Movie Review

  

  First up let me get one thing out of the way straight away. I am a big Avengers fan and I like Iron Man more than I like Captain America. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• 24 (Tamil) – Movie Review

  

  At the outset let me confess that I like Suriya more than I like Vijay or Ajith for no other reason other than the fact that he remains the perennial underdog i... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 SELF EXPRESSION