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[Book Review] Sapna’s Bad Connection by Neil D’Silva
Details Length: 248 pages Publisher: Vishwakarma PublicationsPublication date: 14 September 2023 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199277324-sapna-s-bad-connection Amazon India: Link Blurb Sapna Damle, a successful entrepreneur listed in Corporate Woman magazine, receives a string of abusive and threatening chat messages on her 33rd birthday. But the biggest shock is yet to come: the sender is a ghost.Kedar, her boyfriend…
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[Book Review] Wicked Bleu: Simone Doucet Series Book 2
Blurb A 103-year-old murder mystery. An amateur ghost sleuth. Can a wrong be rectified in death? Eight months ago, Simone experienced her first spectral encounter. It awakened a dormant second sight and opened a chasm to the afterlife. Now, another spirit from 1917 New Orleans has wandered through that passage, haunting her with an intoxicating…
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[Book Review]Why There Are No Noyontara Flowers in Agargaon Colony: Stories by Shahidul Zahir
Translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy As in most things in life, one’s growth as a reader can be hastened by reading widely, beyond one’s comfort zone. When I picked up “Why There Are No Noyontara Flowers in Agargaon Colony,” I had no idea who Shahidul Zahir was. Neither did I know that he…
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[Book Review] Ghazals: A Collection of Ghazals in English by Shankar N Kashyap
The word Ghazal conjures up images of swirling dervishes and incense and deep trans states. Ghazals were spread across the land by the Sufi mystics. This is an attempt to construct Ghazals in a format as close to traditional Persian verses as possible, within the constraints of the English language. This is a book not only for…
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[Book Review] The Arboretum After Midnight by W.T. O’ Brien
Whitney Colliers was an astonishingly beautiful woman. She worked as studio manager and ambassador for a well-known Seattle interior designer. Whitney was a tease to everyone, and she delivered on her advertising. After creating her usual friction at an afternoon party for a local artist, Whitney requested a ride from an ardent admirer to a…