I like to read science fiction, classics, thrillers, history and technology.
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With three novels and one short-story collection now translated into English, Haruki Murakami has emerged …
A quest across time and space, across the real and the unreal. Masterful storytelling by Murakami.
My full review:
https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British …
Pure chills guaranteed in what is surely the best Sherlock Holmes novel.
Review:
https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/
appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, …
A fascinating biography of cancer. If you can skim the first half, you are rewarded with a crackling journey of cancer research in the second half.
My full review:
https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/the-emperor-of-all-maladies/
All the trademark wit and charm of Wodehouse appears in this early collection of his short stories. Also has the first appearance of Wooster and Jeeves.
My full review:
https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/the-man-with-two-left-feet/
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as …
My review:
https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/on-the-beach/
Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His …
A brilliant satire and meditation on the absurd existence and functioning of the Indian government machinery in small towns. And oh, also a journey of finding himself for the protagonist. Brilliant work that can only be Indian.
Full review:
https://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/english-august-an-indian-story/
A smashing unputdownable read!
My review: daariga.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/master-and-commander/
My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/the-girl-with-the-golden-parasol/
"Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old …
My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/a-drifting-life/
""Profoundly moving. I cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this."--Amitav Ghosh, …
My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/em-and-the-big-hoom/
A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr …
The Sign of Four is a good second book of Holmes. Its a bit disappointing since we only see Holmes' mind in action only a couple of times instead of all through in the book.
My full review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/the-sign-of-four/
The classic thriller and "New York Times" bestseller is reissued with a new look. Prone …
My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-terminal-man/
My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-%E8%B5%B0%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6%E8%AA%9E%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AB%E5%83%95%E3%81%AE%E8%AA%9E%E3%82%8B/
THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSION, NOT THE ORIGINAL TEXT. Pearson English Graded Readers are an …
My review:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/2001-a-space-odyssey-novel/
