Category: Book Reviews

This book is an attempt to share that expansive experience, through the limited medium of words and pictures. Writing it restored our faith in humanity. We can be happy, we can be hopeful, we can be enterprising – no matter where we are. The question is – are you? If Dharavi can, so can I. This is what the author’s note concludes. Yes, we are talking about one of the largest slums in the world – Dharavi. We once again welcome Rashmi Bansal in the Book Reviews Program, along with Deepak Gandhi and Dee Gandhi, for a very special book called Poor Little Rich Slum – what we saw in Dharavi and why it matters. Curious to know about this community? Read below to know what the book offers.

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The ringneck parrot hopped out of its rusted cage and cocked its green head, as if contemplating a serious decision. This is how the story set in Shimla, in the year 1991, starts with. Presenting Meghna Pant‘s One & a Half Wife, that is a welcome addition to diasporic writing from India, as complimented by author Manju Jaidka. Get your free copy of this book! Read below to know more what this book is about.

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The cover of this book by James Tampa intrigues us. We  have an international author again at BlogAdda. This book is remarkably original, filled with pathos and insight, says Ed Pichon of FreshFiction.com. Introducing, The Clockwork Man – created to fascinate, designed to serve, until he broke free, written by William Jablonsky, under the Book Reviews Program! Read below to know what this book is all about:

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For the first time at BlogAdda, under the Book Reviews Program, we have a restaurant guide book up for review. Not just this – here’s a guide that has 4 editions, covering restaurants of 4 metro cities of India. Introducing The Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012 for Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune cities! Interested? Read below to know what the book offers!

 

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You have heard about online love through chatting, you must have heard about best friends who are virtual for each other, you must have also heard about online dating. But have you heard about an online connection through a game of Scrabble? That is something we need to read about. And you can do so with Falguni Kothari‘s debut novel It’s your move, Wordfreak! A uniquely conceptualized book is at your Adda, that you can put your hands on. Head over to read the synopsis and apply to review it.

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Thank you for the overwhelming response for The Devotion of Suspect X. Here we are with another cracker of a book! We have Sharath Komarraju‘s debut novel, Murder in Amaravati, up for review. Murder in Amaravati – an unpardonable thriller brings to life well-delineated characters, those that one can find in every village. Over all these characters lurks the ghost of Padmavati, the beautiful young woman whose body is found in the sanctum of the Kali Temple. This book is a classic thriller where every character has an alibi, and everyone is a suspect till proved innocent. Simple, lucid language, makes the book a fast read. Interested? Head over to apply.

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