American-born Rakhi is an artist and later becomes co-owner of a teashop with her friend. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants and is confused as to why her mother, who is a interpreter of dreams, doesn't want to talk about this gift. She is suprised why she has not got the gift. It leaves Rahki bitter and resentful that she cannot share in this part of her mother's life. When September 11 occurs, a series of events unfold and she realises what her mother means by what is missing in her shop. The story is beautiful and is from Rakhi's point of view. And it opened a new view point for me on what would people from India would have faced during that terrible time for no fault.
Queen of dreams - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
on Monday, June 14, 2010
The cottage - Danielle Steel
on Thursday, May 20, 2010This is really material for a Hindi serial for sure. :) It starts out with Cooper Winslow an actor who was top of this field during his age. He has grace, charm and everything. But right now he's broke due to his lavish spending. He needs to sell his home of forty years or rent it out. He agrees somehow to rent it out and has two new tenants Mark and Jimmy. Mark is dealing with his divorce from his wife who has strayed and Jimmy just lost his wife due to her illness.
Amidst this chaos, something is happening. There is a scandal of Coop romancing a wealthy doctor and the news that someone is pregnant with his child. There is an unexpected guest who turns up and changes Coop's life. Quite a fun filled story.
Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three and being the wife of a lawyer. She is a successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. Suddenly out of the blue, her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya's first reaction is distress about leaving her kids alone, but her husband convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya enjoys her work. But soon she realises that her husband is straying and kids are not happy with her. Interesting story :)
Here the storyline was a bit weird. I expected something and something else happened. Gillian is a divorced , single parent who moved from NY to CA for a change of career. She meets this guy and sleeps with him. The guy doesn't treat her that well and still Gillian hangs on. She gets pregnant and the guy is scared. Hence she moves back to NY to have the baby. He later comes around to the feeling of having a child and gets her back to CA. But he dies in an unfortunate accident. In the end, everything does come along but I was still wondering why she was with the guy in the first place.
I didn't like the book very much. This may be because I'm prejudiced against the topic. I hate the idea of older men preying on younger women. But the style of writing was good. Katya is a young girl who is working as a nanny in a Jersey neighborhood looking after two young children. While there, she meets Marcus Kidder who is a wealthy artist. He catches her window shopping at a lingerie store and tries to buy it for her. But she refuses. Later on, she visits him and is intriguied by him. The end was kind of expected but I didn't like the book mainly for the story line.
Irish Love - Andrew M. Greeley
on Friday, April 2, 2010In this book, Nuala Anne has left her singing career and is happy to be at home in Ireland. There is a bomb blast in an adjacent site and Nuala and her daughter Nelliecoyne smell blood due to them being fey. Later on, we come to know that it was the site of a brutal massacre where innocents were blamed for the crime of another. Dermot gets a book by a Chicago journalist Edward Fitzpatrick and they realise there is a connection between the old crime and the now present day. The book was interesting and I liked it better than the first book I read.
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