The White Tiger - Arvinda Adiga

I ll be frank :) When this novel was suggested to me by one of my friends M, I was excited to see a Mangalorean author :P heheheh so ran and grabbed this book from the library. Well, the book is written in a weird way :)

The style is so much different from the authors I usually read. But I persisted and read along. And I really liked the way he evolved the story about the driver Balram Halwai and his master. The driver narrates a series about his life and how he came to kill his master. All in all, a good novel, if you can overcome his different style of writing

The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan

This novel I really liked :) Although I guess not for the same reasons as everyone. I wouldnt say it is one of my favorites.. but the book was good. It was based in China and the story is told by Pearl's mother Winnie.

It is also is about the tension between Winnie and Pearl and also between Winnie and her friend. It is about the struggles in China during the World War. I mean being a person of today's generation, we don't know much about how people lived during war and how it was. It provides a sad insight into this part.

Waiting - Ha Jin

Well, all in all , the book was really good :) Keeps you guessing till the end as to what will happen next. It is a story of a Chinese military doctor Lin and his wife Shuyu and his so-called girlfriend Maana Wu. Lin and Maana want to get married and so Lin go every year to meet his wife Shuyu to ask for a divorce. They go every year to the court for the divorce but at the end, Shuyu always answers No. This happens atleast 3-4 times in the book.

Well, the funny thing is after reading the entire book, I almost felt so angry on the three characters. About Maana for being such an idiot and waiting for almost 18 years, about Lin who is roaming around with Maana and ignoring his wife Shuyu just because she is not good looking ( but Shuyu is the one who took care of his ailing parents and did everything for him) and Shuyu for being so patient. Well that's life I guess. Different people with different personalities! But it's a nice novel to read about China and Chairman Mao and the cultural revolution

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With open arms - Nora Roberts

Song of the West
Unfortunately , I dont remember this story line :)))

Her Mother's Keeper
Gwen Lacrosse comes home to save her mother from being enticed by Luke Powers and ends up falling for him. Watch for what happens - does the mother come to know of it or does Gwen
sacrifice for her mother :)

Two of a kind - Nora Roberts

In "Impulse," a young woman who is so cautious about life, decides to take a chance and live
life to the fullest. She falls in love with a handsome Greek stranger.

And in "The Best Mistake," a single mother finds out that her new tenant stirs up feelings
she thought long forgotten.

The Reunion - Nora Roberts

It consists of two short stories - "Once More with Feeling" and "Treasures Lost, Treasures
Found" . The first one is the story of a musician who is given a chance to work with her old
love again and how love overcomes even the silliest of all obstacles.

The second one is of a teacher who finally comes to peace with herself and her dead father
and accepts the help of a person whom her father would have disapproved.