Category: Book Reviews
Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa Book Review
This is a book I call an absolutely must read for Pakistani readers especially for those based in Lahore. Although it seems to be the writer’s own story of her childhood and what she observed and witnessed in Lahore in the years leading up to partition and post partition melodrama. The narration begins with early…
The Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidwa
The Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidwa Book Review This is one perfect example of multidimensional analysis of Pakistani life. The journey of a tribal man of Kohistan, the violence of partition experienced in the train to Lahore, life in the mountains versus life in plains, offer much reflections and different perspectives of a Pakistani or…
THE BIGGEST BLUFF MARIA KONNIKOVA
THE BIGGEST BLUFF: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Take Control and Master the Odds Author: MARIA KONNIKOVA If you play poker and love playing the game, this book is for you. It is not a guide or handbook book for poker or gambling. On the contrary as the title suggests, the book makes it…
Leave it to by Me by Bharati Mukhrjee
I picked up this book purely on the basis of the author. I have read previous works by this author in my student days and really enjoyed them. Her novels which I read are mostly on the immigrant family settings coming to America. The cross cultural experiences and adaptation are much too familiar to an…
Book Review: THINK BIG – Make it Happen in Business and Life
THINK BIG – Make it Happen in Business and Life by DONALD TRUMP, and Bill Zanker This is a non-fiction authored by Donald Trump, and supplemented by Bill Zanker, President and Founder of the Learning Annex. If you have read, Art of the Deal, previously written by Donald Trump in late 80s, you may consider…
Book Review: Art of of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz
Book Review: Art of of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz If you believe in Walt Disney’s motto of “reaching for the stars and following your dreams”, then Donald Trump’s accounts narrated in Art of the Deal will resonate with this thinking. The book is a collection of uplifting and moral boosting anecdotes…
Book Review: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The title of the book certainly gives impression that it is children’s book of a fairy tale of once upon a time taking place inside a palace with King and Queen and a little girl being waited on by all kinds of bearers and maids and not doing a single thing herself. Contrary to these…
Book Review: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Book Review: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley A few months ago I asked a young reader to name a book which had excited her the most. I was expecting to hear a frequently heard or displayed title. She thought for a few seconds and unexpectedly mentioned The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Bewildered…
Book stores in Lahore
As a book lover I am lucky to be living in Lahore, a hub for Literature and cultural festivals, frequent and random book fairs. The city is peppered with all types of book stores carrying a variety of reading materials catering to readers of all ages and taste. With numerous book stores and fairs I…
Book Review: The Richest Man in Babylon By George Samuel Clason
A short sweet and simple book offering wells of wisdom and guidance to wealth management from the Babylonian times to present day and times to come. This wisdom is relevant and beneficial to all mankind irrespective of their means of livelihood and position in society, if only they would read the book. The author skillfully…