My Journal
My GF is a LitFic fanatic! My BF is a romance worm!
"Many happy returns of the day, dude. Look what I bought for you?" "Oh! "Manhattan Beach"! I was so looking forward to read this." "I know, I know. When we were in Goa, you read "A visit from the Goon squad" even in the dim light of that open air bar where the group...
An Ode to Friendship
An Ode to Friendship Anyway, I always loved it when we played The Doors, I absolutely adored the voice of Jim Morrison.Guess what, I do not like Doors any more. I really don't?What do you like then?I listen to a lot of different kind of music. Punk, post punk, hip...
Significant and Heartfelt
Though all forms of writing are unique, poetry stands out. Mainly because it is so commercially unsuccessful, and anyone who writes it has to be passionate about the craft and not money. I have written poems all my life, and I am happy to publish an anthology of them...
Aliens
There is world, vast and uncaringLonely and beautiful and fearsome,meaningless and undying, compassionateand tuneful, inharmonious and barren.You decide to reside on mars,just for the sake of noveltyAnd to take only the few humans,who love you and have...
Book Review – The Deep Blue Good-By
This is the first of several novels that John Macdonald has written with Travis McGee as a protagonist. Travis, who likes to be called Trav, is a self confessed beach bum, someone who works on special cases only when he runs out of money earned in the earlier case. In...
Book Review – Carrie
Carrie is an interesting first book. Technically, it was not Stephen King's first book. It was his first published book. He took it up as a challenge from a female friend to write a book where the protagonist was a woman. In one of the interviews, King has said that...
Book Review – Kafka On the Shore
Kafka on the Shore is like a surrealistic painting or a David Lynch movie. There is a plot, there are characters that are occasionally coherent and there are elements of mystery. But, if you are looking at resolution, that too a water tight, Sherlock Holmes kind of a...
Raymond Carver
What is it about Raymond Carver that attracts so many creatives? I first heard of Carver when Rhett Miller mentioned him in an interview with Robert Christgau. Old 97's even recorded a song with the title of a Carver story named, "What we talk about when we talk about...
Fabulous Reviews by Leading book bloggers
Some great reviews of my books by popular book bloggers: Anusha of I'll read anything reviews "Brothers Sen Gogh". She says, "What I liked the most about this book is the strong based characterisation. Where you can actually understand the person, identify with and...