Cooking with my Indian mother-in-law - Simon Daley

I really liked going through this book. The pictures of Roshan's food was amazing! The recipes are very simple for a beginner and the guidelines were nice. Good book for learning to cook Indian dishes :)

The splendour of silence - Indu Sundaresan

A young American woman,Olivia, receives a trunk from India that contains secrets of her mother’s past. The letters in the trunk tell her the story of her parents Sam and Mila and their brief affair in 1942 India.The heart of the story takes place in pre-Independence India and war-torn Burma. Splendor of Silence is about love, secrets, and the tension between Indians and the British raj. I had read this novel quite sometime back and thought about including this here.

A good Indian wife - Anne Cherian

I really liked this novel a lot. It was so touching for me. It's about a young Indian doctor Suneel Sarath who was studying and now staying in the US. He has a sort-of girlfriend Catherine. He goes to visit India to visit his "ailing" Thatapa but on landing in India, realises that his mother tricked him into coming to India to see girls for marriage. Through an unfortunate mistunderstanding, he somehow gets married to Leila. Leila is a sweetheart in this novel. She is a typical Indian girl and comes to US with dreams. She is independent and soon realises what her husband was upto with Catherine. So the story goes on about how she and Suneel in the end ultimately reconcile. A really nice novel :)

Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

I read this novel yesterday and was quite happy reading it. It starts off very vaguely in the first few chapters. It is the story of the author as she takes off to travel for four months each in Italy, India and Bali. She starts her travel after she has divorced her husband and decides to take time off. In Italy, she has a lovely time learning Italian and tasting food :) She also gains a happy 23 pounds and is happy about it heheh I would never be. But in retrospection, she went through a bad divorce and hence would have lost a lot of weight.

In India, she goes to a Ashram and learns to pray and has unbelievable experiences. I wish I could talk to God like her.

In Bali, she gets a balance between everything. She goes to meet the medicine man she had met earlier, falls in love with a nice person and the story is so sweet!

First year anniversary

Oh my God! How could I miss my blog's first anniversary :( It was on October 21 that I first started blogging!

I now find it very therapeutic and helps me keep myself organised on which books I have read. It's easy to maintain too and also helps me out when I need to find a good book to gift!

A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit - Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen

A lovely book! I am a big fan of the series of these books. I have even heard that they have come out with an Indian version of the Chicken Soup for the Soul. Lovely, delightful short stories which inspire you, make you cry, make you want to be a better person.

Rebellious Desire - Julie Garwood

Caroline Richmond has been living in Boston with her uncle and his family since she was a small child. Suddenly, her father sends word that she must return to him in England. Caroline meets Jered for the first time when she saves his friend :)

She meets with her father and doesn't still know why he sent her away that long ago. Someone is trying to kill Caroline and Jered is trying to find out why with some not-so-good consequences