The Help - Kathryn Stockett

I really loved this book. After reading the book, I went to see whether the author has written any other books. It seems she has a hard time finding publishers to publish this book. I wonder why. It is really very good. It is a story about the colored help in Mississippi during the old times in USA and their white ladies. It details the story of Abileen (colored maid who takes care of Mae Mobley and Lil man), Minny - a strong colored maid - who is quite outspoken and Skeeter - a young white woman - who was taken care of by Constantine (colored maid). Skeeter talks to Aibileen and wants to write a book which involves interviewing all the colored maids in Jackson. This was a time during which colored people lived in a separate part of town and weren't treated quite as well as now. I really liked the view points of Minny and Skeeter the best. I've heard that this book is getting turned into a movie. That should be good. Hope it lives up to the book!

Honest Illusions - Nora Roberts

I did like this book. Max Nouvelle is a father who is a magician and has a daughter by name Roxanne. Lily is his partner and Max takes in Luke as a child when he runs away from an abused home. Roxanne falls for Luke and is unable to understand why Luke is not able to reciprocate. Luke leaves them and five years later comes back to make a deal with Roxanne.

Divine Evil - Nora Roberts

This book is very much different for me atleast compared to Nora Roberts' other books that I have read. It is a story of Clare who is a famous artist who comes back to her home town Emmitsboro and she meets the town sheriff Cameron. He was her love interest earlier. In the background she recollects some coven ceremony taking place when she was a child. The book is mainly about this and about the grave of an infant being dug up.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bront

This is supposedly a classic and I think here, everyone has read it. I was okay with the book but was not very much enchanted by it. I had read it way back in February and this was sitting in my drafts folder. It is a love story of Heathcliff and Catherine and how this love story destroys them and everyone around them. It's sort of like a love saga kinds. I was not very much impressed with the book.

Lord of Hawkfell Island - Catherine Coulter

I somehow didn't like this book. All weird things happen in this. It is set way long time back during Vikings time. Rorik kidnaps Einar's half-sister Mirana to avenge the slaughter of his wife and children. Mirana is very independent in thinking and doing stuff just like a man. And all weird things happen. It wasn't a good book for me! I had read this book way back in February and just got around to posting it.

Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet - Jamie Ford

I really loved this book. It was so touching and emotional. I started thinking about how life must have been during that time. The book is about Henry Lee who is a American - Chinese boy who grows up during the World War II time. He has a friend Keiko who is Japanese. During this time, the Japanese were hated by Americans because Japan was against America during the war. Keiko and her family are sent to a refugee camp to stay there and Henry misses her and somehow manages to meet her. They later say good bye and due to certain circumstances, the letters that Keiko and Henry write to each other are not received. Henry gets married to a Chinese lady Ethel and has a son Marty. The story starts out when Ethel dies and Marty and Henry start getting closer. A very lovely story. I read the book through the night on Wednesday because I couldn't keep it down once I started :)

The Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's war time, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. 


Once they move into that home, strange things start to happen to the kids Max and Alicia. With the help of their friend Roland, they try to find out who the mysterious "Prince of Mist" is. I didnt like the story much because I expected many things to happen. The ending felt a bit flat to me.

The mistress of spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

This was a good read. It starts out with the Tilo who is made a mistress of spices in California and how she uses spices to heal everyone. She is not allowed to touch the people she talks to. But one fine day, a guy comes in and she gets carried away with him. I did not like the love angle as such. But the description of each spice in each chapter and the way it is used to heal people, I somehow felt convinced that spices have powers heheh :) I liked it but not as much as Palace of Illusions.

My Sins against Gender-Stereotypes

I got tagged by Comfy and Smitha to write about – ‘My Sins against Gender-Stereotypes’. which was created by the super blogger IHM 


Here goes my list of 10 things that I have done which I am not supposed to as a woman:
1. I like being in control of every trip, thing that I do. I don't relinquish control that easily :) I take charge of everything.
2. I have stayed alone for more than a year and enjoyed that phase of life. 
3. I don't wear make up that often and detest jewellery. I prefer a jeans and T-shirt any day to  salwars, saris etc
4. I like to read manuals of gadgets and make sure I make maximum usage of the gadget.
5. I love searching for deals for electronic items.
6. I hate heels and do not own a single pair of high-heeled shoe. I think most of the girls will hit me for this :)
7. I like driving because it makes me feel I am independent. I hate depending on anyone for anything.
8. I can change bulbs, fix things with a screw driver - a general handy man of sorts.
9. I like to explore and see around more than anyone. I like to go for walks and check what is around to do.
10. I have a knack to find coupons to use for most of the expensive things that I buy.

And now for the tough part. I’ve got to tag people. Apparently according to IHM, if you read this and you don’t take the tag up , you are  - ‘cursed to wear blue pants if you are a woman and pink shirts if you are a man – for next twelve years’.

Because everyone I know already has been tagged, I tag everyone who reads this blog :)