An Apology for Shakespeare is a collection of poems written by S A Joseph, a popular poet from Kerala and also an acclaimed and experienced academician. S A Joseph has been writing poems for long (off the writing field, unofficially) and he finally decided to come up with his maiden poetry anthology but to make it even serious and ascribe a certain purpose to it, the poet made it ‘a defence of poetry’ in verse and rhyme. The poems in …
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Amish, the author of widely successful Meluha trilogy, has not followed the typical feminist pattern while writing this work (Sita: The Warrior of Mithila). But he has been a feminist in a way that he rescued the women in the story of the pettiness of womanly jealousy. He has made an effort to empower the villainous character also giving them a considerable motive. His female characters, be it any, are driven by a motive and they pursue the same on …
Tim Tharp is an experienced screen writer and a novelist, popular for ‘one-name-fame’ The Spectacular Now’. The novel was published in 2008 and also saw a film based upon it which fetched a little more attention than the book itself. The novel The Spectacular Now is focused on the youths, addiction and their silly romance. Very popular and a general read among the teenagers with literary taste, the book surely demands an attention and our review. For The Book Blog, …
Poverty teaches thousands of lessons which elite can never learn. The urge to learn comes from the vacuum that’s created in one’s life in absence of education. Rich don’t value what is worshipped by the poor. A similar kind of thought is conveyed by the book The Elephant Chaser’s daughter. It’s the ordeal of a poor girl Shilpa Anthony Raj. She lives in a village where the prevailing caste system and poverty have compelled people to switch their gods! It …
The Elephant Chaser’s Daughter is a much-awaited memoir for the readers who are waiting to read the first-hand account of the life of a girl from the untouchable community of India – Shilpa Raj, the author of the memoir. This memoir is surely going to rock the online stores as well as the bookstores near you because, until the date, there is not a single author coming with a memoir as his or her debut book who belongs to that …
Legend is the first novel in the dystopian series by author Marie Lu. The title was later accompanied by two other novels, Prodigy and Champion. Legend came out in 2001 and became a sensation after that. Out and out a dystopian fiction, the work features violence and exile in different forms. What was once the western United States is now home to The Republic, a nation constantly at war with its neighbours. Because the state is under the control of …