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Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Racketeer

Author - John Grisham
Genre - Fiction, Thriller
Source - Audiobook
Rating - 2
Jan 2013

Somewhat average by Grisham standards. Sometimes does not remain a pageturner.

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Shom's bookshelf: read-in-2015

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Magnificent. Sprawling. Meandering. Rambling. Confusing. Contradictory. Infuriating. Grandiose. Doomed, defeated, flawed characters. Caricatures. Swathed in Black and White. This is the novel that Dumas, were he alive today, would have w...

tagged: read-in-2015

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

May all books have a soul like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

by George Saunders

Rated: 4/5 Saunders is a magician of the written word. These are superbly well crafted stories, each an original take on the world around us, and does the work of holding up a mirror of our world in all is darkest (Bounty, the novella, ...

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ঋজুদা সমগ্র ৫

by Buddhadeb Guha

A review of Rijuda Somogro is included as part of the review of Ruaha here.

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রুআহা

by Buddhadeb Guha

Thoughts on re-reading Buddhadev Guha’s Ruaha A couple of months ago, while on a flight from Boston to London, I got talking with the next-seat neighbor. She was a Bostonian brunette of my age or nearabouts (conversation led to the 'nea...

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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

Chandler’s writing is like a slap of crisp, hot breeze on the face, late on a tiring summer’s day – clean, brutal, uncompromising, and unforgettable. Clean, more than anything else. Sparse. Hard. And enough. You know that this is genre f...

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Y2K, অথবা, সেক্স ক্রমে আসিতেছে

by Chandril Bhattacharyya

Y2K, অথবা, সেক্স ক্রমে আসিতেছে More iconoclastic than funny, but funny enough. Not quite as funny as Chandril Bhattacharyya (who I sincerely believe is a true Bengali intellectual, and one of the funniest, most creative, most inventive ...

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Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Racketeer