Lyon's gate - Catherine Coulter

Jason Sherbrooke flees from England when something bad happens and he can't forgive himself for it. He returns back to his homeland after five years and decides to try to live again. When he shows interest in buying Lyon's Gate, Hallie Carrick also wants the place. Finally, both of them end up being owners of the same place :) It's a love story then between both of them. :)

Jade Star - Catherine Coulter

Dr. Saint Morris reencounters a young girl from his past in Maui in an unlikely situation. He soon becomes her husband, but in name only. She loves him, but he sees himself as her protector and brother. They encounter many exciting trials in San Francisco. Ultimately, he gets married to her to save her name from being tarnished. It was an okay novel. I didn't like it much though

Mistress - Anita Nair

I really liked this book. It is about four people, Shyam, his wife Radha, an American Chris and Radha's uncle. Chris comes to India to meet Radha's uncle and to write about his life. The story unfolds that uncle is a Kathakali dancer and the way the book is written in stages of different poses in Kathakali. I really liked the way the book was written. Amazing! The emotions of Shyam when he knows Radha is seeing Chris was really good!

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!