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BOOK REVIEW: Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

BOOK REVIEW: Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

Posted June 12, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 10 Comments

Pages: 77, Kindle Edition Published: 2011, Random House I am big fan of Conan Doyle’s writings that include Sherlock Holmes and this year I realised I should try adaptions of same character written by other authors. After reading Martin Greenberg’s anthologies on Holmes’ Christmas Stories I came across Laurie R. Kings Mary Russell series. Mary Russell is a young girl that Holmes after retiring from being a Private Detective and relocating him in Sussex, takes an apprentice of. This short novella can be called the origin of this new series of adventure. The plot is interesting but the adventure Sherlock Holmes pick up at the age of 54 to save his wealthy orphaned protégée is bit off for me in […]

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BOOK REVEW: The Last Hack by Christopher Brookmyre

BOOK REVEW: The Last Hack by Christopher Brookmyre

Posted June 28, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Crime & Mystery / 0 Comments

Expected publication: July 4th 2017 by Atlantic Monthly Press Pages: 432 I have read and reviewed many British crime writers because they have that thrill even without much action, and generating that feeling of thrill & noir through their words is a skill of few. Christopher Brookmyre brings that thrills back to me in his latest book, The Last Hack which is part of continuing series about a reporter Jack Parlabane. Before getting into details, let me brief you about the story this book revolves around. Do not worry, no spoilers here. This story is told through the perspectives of Jack and Sam. Two interesting characters with a very different background and set of actions. Sam Morpeth has had to […]

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Fiction Books to Read This Spring and Summer

Fiction Books to Read This Spring and Summer

Posted April 21, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

I recently got my hands on Buzz Books 2017 Spring and Summer edition. After reading many excerpts, I am excited to share some titles that I am eagerly looking to read this year. Yet, I might not be able to read and finish all of them, the sole purpose of sharing these titles right now is that if you decide to read any of them, I hope to read your views on them.

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REVIEW: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

REVIEW: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

Posted February 7, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Crime & Mystery, Thrillers / 0 Comments

I must confess the Hercule Poirot is not one of my favourite detectives. Not even close. But that’s personal opinion. What I enjoy most Poirot’s cases or I must say, Agatha Christie’s writing is the how the cases unfold in the end after reaching the climax. This book has a brilliant ending, that’s all. No spoilers. I enjoy her writing which never fails to create a tension on the reader to get to the end of it. And Then There Were None is the best case scenario.

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SPOTLIGHT: Deceiving Bella by Cate Beauman

SPOTLIGHT: Deceiving Bella by Cate Beauman

Posted November 29, 2016 by @amanhimself in Spotlight/Giveaway / 0 Comments

Ethan Cooke Security and their bodyguard team return to action in Deceiving Bella – book eleven in Cate Beauman’s Bodyguards of L.A. County series. With over 7700 reviews and a 4.4 rating for the entire series, see why the Bodyguards of L.A. County is a multi-award winning series. Buy It Now! Amazon | Kobo | Nook | iBooks New to the series? No problem! Each book in the “Bodyguards” series is a stand-alone title. Although reading the books in order is preferred, it is not necessary.  Each title features brand new primary characters and limited overlapping secondary characters.  Don’t hesitate to jump right in! Isabella Colby has always yearned for normalcy. Now that she’s settled in LA, she finally has it. Good friends, a pretty home, and her thriving career as the Palisades’ top skincare specialist are a dream come true. Bella is […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Rather Be The Devil by Ian Rankin

BOOK REVIEW: Rather Be The Devil by Ian Rankin

Posted November 10, 2016 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Crime & Mystery, Thrillers / 0 Comments

Rebus is back. And he’s not getting old, age seem just a number for him and his creator, Ian Rankin. He’s 21 books old now. Rather Be The Devil is the new entitlement released on November, 3rd. When I heard earlier this year that Ian Rankin has rejected to my request for an interview with for a third time in three years, I thought, ‘Oh Boy! Either I am a pretty bad interviewer or he’s upto something really good. Probably a new Rebus novel. I’ll take that gladly, sir.’ Rebus is into his retirement for almost a couple of years now. But curiosity is a disease and when one’s neurone start sending the type of electrical signals, the giant awakens. […]

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What did I read this week?

What did I read this week?

Posted August 7, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Current week is to an end and I am still not finished with Wilkie Collins’ WOMAN IN WHITE. Many say it’s his masterpiece but I am reading Collins for the first time and not even a hundred pages complete. It’s a mystery novel and has a Gothic theme with psychological realism which I am yet to explore. More this week, I had more than usual amount of free time and the amount of books I have to read is always, enormous. Thus to take the matter in my own hands and with blessings of time, I decided to binge reading and ended up reading first two books of Lord Peter Wimsey, Whose Body? & Clouds of Witness written by Dorothy […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

BOOK REVIEW: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Posted June 24, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

This one certainly one of the most famous Agatha Christie’s crime tale. Whomsoever I am talking with about crime fiction, does bring up Agatha Christie (even if they haven’t read her). The queen of crime as they like to call her, but Hercule Poirot certainly not the king of detectives. Murder on the Orient Express is a renowned locked room mystery. A locked room mystery, if elaborated is a crime that sounds impossible to ensue. The plot starts on the famous Orient Express train that promises to take her passengers to a journey across the Europe, but is stuck somewhere in between due to heavy snow. Now this is a real incident, an experience the queen of crime has shared […]

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5 Crime Fiction Novels I read in 2015

5 Crime Fiction Novels I read in 2015

Posted December 17, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Crime & Mystery / 6 Comments

I love reading Crime Fiction novels. They are intriguing, a dynamic pace is maintained by most of the authors in their works and they are often surprising. Hanging Garden is Rankin’s complete novel and is 9th John Rebus novel, and becomes more fascinating. My Rating 5 out of 5! It’s winter and what will be better, if not be in Russia. At least Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 can take us there. Stalin’s Soviet Union, a paradise in books but not in reality. This thrilling novel is the first of Leo Demidov’s trilogy. My Rating: 4 out of 5   Another gripping novel, full of thrill and after reading it, there will be some amount of adrenaline rush left inside you. Girl on […]

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The World of Crime Fiction

The World of Crime Fiction

Posted November 20, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay / 10 Comments

In Italy, people call a story that consist of detectives or crimes giallo, for the word yellow. The reason is that since 1930s mostly crime fiction books had yellow covers. The earliest known crime fiction book is over twenty pages and is written by Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher and published in 1829. It is called The Rector of Veilbye and is supposedly based on a true murder case from 1626 in Vejlby, Denmark. The story is in the form of diary entries by a character named Erik Sorensen whose focus is on a trial about an unexplained disappearance of a farm labourer and after fifteen years the bones are unearthed. The evolution and popularity of the genre increased in […]

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