Me & My Bookshelf !

Kohinoor - A famed precious gem A Mythological tale claims that it was worn by Lord Krishna and it was stole from Him when He was asleep. Another story claims that it was found in a river bed in 3200 B.C The first reliable evidence is from Barber, The Mughal Emperor, who named it as a part of the treasure won bu Alauddin in the 14th century. The Mughal acquired it in the year 1526. Right from the start this gem was claimed and hunted by India, US,Afghanistan and Taliban. Now in the present times, the same countries are on the look out for the Kohinoor but this time, its not the gem that they are after, but it is a set of critical documents that decides the fate of the country and its people.... This is the outline of  Manreet Sodhi Someshwar' s second book -  The Hunt For Kohinoor  . This book is the second of the Thriller series featuring  Mehrunisa Khosa. A very thrilling book and I loved it. Read the review here .. Happy browsing... ...

This is one the books that I love to re-read. In fact most of my books fall into this category. This story is about a woman's life which is shadowed by two most powerful men and she is attached to both of them for various reasons. Jennifer Parker is a young and beautiful woman who happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time thus ending her career as an attorney in a very shot period of just a few hours!! Because of her tryst with the Mafia of which she had nothing to do, she meets the handsome attorney Adam Warner who has been sent to investigate her ties / relationships with the mafia due to which a highly sensitive case had to be closed.Adam sees her living condition and her behavior and concludes that she was in no way involved. All charges are dropped against Jennifer but no one is willing to hire her because of the sensation the case had created. She struggles to live and ends up in an office with two men - Ken Bailey and Otto Wenzel. These two men help her bu...

This is yet another book that really touched me! This book, along with another 2 books,is from the used books sale I went to a few weeks back. I am so glad that I picked up this title from among the 1000's of books there. This story is about a lady who has everything that she wants - a good life, a beautiful family and loads of wealth.But there is one small yet important thing missing- love and affection from her husband! She finds another guy who treats her like she wants her husband to treat her, respects her and thinks of her highly. But she can never really leave her husband for this guy she falls in love with. It is struggle of mind and her decision that makes this story so touching and very interesting to here.Here is the gist.... This book is about Deanna Duras, a lady married to Marc Edouard. Denna grows up in a rich family where her father is always traveling in the plane he owned and flew himself and has little time to take care of her or any of other things. So...

I got this at a book fair when I was in college. This book fair which was held inside the huge library was like a blessing in disguise for many of us. Right on the first day, I picked up 3 of Jeffrey Archer's books after I overheard one of my college mate describing the works of the author. This book was born out of the authors personal experience with near-bankruptcy. This also happens to be his first book and it was published in the year 1976!  Four men- Stephen Bradley,an oxford don, Jean Pierre, an art dealer, James Brigsley, an English Lord , Dr. Robin Oakley, a revered society Physician suddenly find that the oil company shares that they had purchased have gone done to the lowest possible price and they are left penniless. To get it back, Stephen calls in the other three whom he has never met before and puts forth a plan to get each penny back from the con - Harvey Metcalfe,a Polish immigrant. Each one of these men have to come up with a plan to bring Harvey down ...

I became a huge fan of Robin Cook after I read 'Sphinx'. I loved it to the core and re-read it so many times in the past. Then the time came when all my novels and other books had to be shelved.I would sneak through a few pages of my favorite novels and put them away quickly for I knew I had other duties to attend to-like running behind 2 lil kids! Now that my daughter is in school, I have a few free hours when my lil one takes a nap. I now happily sit with my favorite novels to do the 2014 reading challenge. Like I mentioned before, I have taken down half a dozen cardboard boxes full of book that I have collected over the years.Some of these book have not even been touched! In one of the boxes, I saw this book and picked it up for this week's review. Though I remember reading it as soon as I bought it in the year 2000, many parts seem new to me now!I just did not have the mind to put in down and finished this book in 3 days !!! This is a thriller involving bio-t...

A few weeks back, I saw this on a discount sale and thought it would be a nice read .Since I have heard quite a few reviews about the author and his books I bought this one without hesitation.                                             This book was born when the author met a young girl on an over night train journey.She tells him the story about the lives of 6 people working in a call center / BPO and the time when their world up side down! After a conversation with God, they make life changing decisions that make them feel better and happier. My Thoughts.... Since this is a small book, I chose to read this one for week 1. I read this book within a couple of days. The book, as the name suggests, is based on what happened one night in the workplace. The story is narrated by Shyam who works with Radhika, Esha, Priyanka, Vroom[a nickname given to Varun coz he ...

Yeah, I know, I wrote this here too.But then I started this blog just for the reading Challenges :).So here we go again..... In spite of signing up for the  Foodies Read 201 4, I have joined another reading challenge!!! Looking at the number of challenges and the categories[click the   link  to know more], I just could not help myself from stopping with just one reading challenge! So here I am, joining the  Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks  - 2014 Reading Challenge. As the name suggests we have to read 52 books by the end of the year.The reading week starts on Sunday and  all genres are allowed except children's books. And there are some mini challenges too !! Quite recently I started buying novels apart from my favorite - cookbooks!I have them all stacked up on the shelf. I am surely going to enjoy doing all the reading and reviewing. And the best part is re-reads are allowed too!!Yay! So I can get to read those books that I got long back! For f...