Look What Came In The Courier Today...

AJAYA

Roll of the Dice

by

Anand Neelakantan

             

Colours of Life by Ashwani Tyagi

Foreword:

Well, I don't know who sent this book. Of course, I didn't buy it. Someone must have sent it for reviewing. But I don't know who.

There was no mail asking for whether I will review. No mail asking for my address. But the courier was addressed to me. So someone who knew my address must have taken liberty to send the book without prior information. Someone, who had send many books earlier.

This book is published under Frog Books, an self-publishing imprint of Leadstart Corps. Well, then it should have to be from Leadstart Corps. The same people who sent the book listed on this page...

Firstly, I thought of not reviewing this book. Later, I was mellowed and considered reviewing the book for the sake of the author, if not for the publishers.

Blurb (from the jacket):

Rishi is a fun - loving, happy - go - lucky guy with no particular ambition. The professional college changes many things. He gets into all those habits which are perceived negatively by society. He goes so deep into those activities that it starts affecting not only his health but also his studies. During the course he is also acquiring the skill sets which may be useful to him in future. 

Life's Like That by Prashant V. Shrivastava

Foreword:

They were the first of the days, I was rejecting books for reviewing. The days when I started to read non-review books, books of my choice, for a number of books review-books I read. Like, I read a book of choice (non-review-book) for every three review-books. 

Due to this addition to my reading regimen, the books to be reviewed (tbr) stack was elevating to a level that, I couldn't keep up with it. So I was rejecting new books. However, dueing that time, I accepted a few books, too, but only if they had a very interesting plot.

That is about the time, when I received a very short mail from the author of this book. Its subject read, Review request for Life's Like That.

Even the content of the mail was very short. It said, that he had got his first novel published and a link to know more about his book and a question, whether we would review his book.

Later, we accepted to review his book on the term that we couldn't commit to a time before when we could review his book. Well, finally, now, I am reviewing it.

Look What Came In The Courier Today...

Today, we have received a special couplet from BecomeShakespeare.com.

BecomeShakespeare.com is a self-publication facility, or rather a facility that promotes self-publications.

When I first received a mail from them, they sounded pretty virgin. I never heard of them before. I presumed they were new to the industry. Well, they have a very limited catalog, which, I believe, is to expand and flourish pretty soon.

Well, to review, I had chosen the following books and unexpectedly, they landed up at my doorstep.

A Cupful of Aha!

by

Anandaa

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Potluck

by

Various

                          

                 

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Foreword:

Clearly, I had chosen this book for the reason that it had won Man Booker (Back when this book won it, it was called Booker Prize). And also, due to the provocative probing of Srinivas, the other author of the blog.

He rated the book all five stars and knowing him pretty well for quite a long time, I know that he doesn't easily give a book five stars. There must be something special about this book for him to do that.

Though, the title and the proud declaration - WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE - were encouraging, I had this feeling laziness ever since I started reading it. Maybe it is due to long gap during which I hadn't read a word, during my vacay. Or maybe I am going through a phase of life, like 'Readers' Block'.

Whatever may be the reason, I finally completed this book, which more or less took more than 2 week - 16 days, to be precise. 

Hope you will enjoy the review as much as I did reading this book...

Blurb (from GoodReads):

"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much."