Me & My Bookshelf !

At a Glance.... Title: Kalki: Selected Stories Author:Kalki Publisher: Penguin Books Pages:290 Genre : Collection of selected short stories Format : Paperback ISBN :0-14-029043-5  I think this book was picked up from a garage sale many years back and only this month that I was able to pick it up to read. The original work is in Tamil and it has been translated by Gowri Ramnarayan,Kalki's grand daughter. Kalki ,whose real name is Ramasamy Krishnamurthy, was a Tamil Writer, critic, poet, Indian independence activist. I picked up this book because mom is a huge fan of Kalki's work and seeing this in my bookshelf prompted me to read it. Though I can read Tamil, I started off with this book and will later move on to the original Tamil versions of Ponniyin Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sabafham and Parthiban kanavu , all of which are sitting on the bookshelf. Now about the book... This book is a compilation of 12 short stories .The themes of these stories r...

At a Glance.... Title: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Author: Jules Verne Publisher: Xist Publishing Pages:290 Genre :Sci-Fi Format - E- Book  ISBN - 978-1-62395-839-8 I remember reading this in my school library years ago. That was the abridged version. Over the years, I forgot most of the story line but still remember Captain Nemo.When I saw this on my kindle cloud, I wanted to read the unabridged version and see what this book was all about. This is the story of the French Naturalist Dr.Aronnox who sets out on a journey to hunt down a monster at sea which seems to destroy anything and everything that comes in its way. The ship in which he is traveling is attacked by the monster and he is overthrown along with his servant Conseil and an ace harpooner Ned Land. They find themselves on the a submarine,Nautilus, which is the 'monster' that they were hunting. Together with the Captain Nemo, Aronnox explores the depths of the oceans and all the while Ned plan...

At a Glance.... Title:Brain Author:Robin Cook Pages:306 Genre : Medical Thriller Format - Paperback  ISBN -0-451-11260-1   This is one of those books which has been sitting on my bookshelf way to long! Ever since I read the first ever Robin Cook's - Sphinx,I was hooked on to his books. This one is a medical thriller and it surely gave a thrill reading it. The story revolves around a medical center , 2 doctors-Martin Philips and Denise Sanger, who work there, a bunch of young women and William Micheals,Martin's researcher partner. The story starts with a young woman going for Gynaec  check up at the Hobson University Medical Center ,New York, and then suddenly disappears from the face of the earth! This continues and several young women who come to the gynecology department go missing.Before they vanish, they display certain weird behaviors,mental breakdown and shocking sexual behaviors.  William Micheals and Dr.Martin together have ...

  At a Glance.... Title: ABC Murders Author: Agatha Christie Publisher: Harper Collins Pages:331 Genre :Mystery / Fiction Format - Paperback ISBN 13 -978-0-00-728245-6 After a really long time, I am reading one of Agatha Christie's novel. As always I enjoyed reading this Mystery / Thriller novel..And as always,Hercules Poirot teams with Hastings and solve a crime,or rather a series of crimes. As the name suggests this books has around 4 murders.And the people murdered have a similarity - it goes on in alphabetical order. That much is easy to figure out through the title. The story starts with Poirot receiving type written letter from one Mr.ABC informing him about the date and place of murders that are about to happen. At first he does not take them seriously but later he is forced to look into the matter when Alice Ascher, an aged shop keeper at Andover is found murdered in her shop and there is an ABC railway guide on teh counter. This pattern continues with Bet...