Till The Last Breath by Durjoy Datta

Don't even think about it.

Go watch a boring movie, sleep or waste your time anywhere you like but don't read it.

Nothing personal.

Love

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

This book is definitely a tough read. I was reading this book from quite some time and was not really sure where the whole narrative is going.

I started this book with the thought that I want to read Gogol. There was no other thought. I just wanted to know why he is such a prominent writer. I bet he is. But I think I picked his wrong one first.

The book is said to be incomplete because Gogol was writing a trilogy but he burnt most of the second part and so the second part looks like left in the middle of the sentence. However, for a reader I don't think it would be difficult to imagine a climax of their own choice. Only Gogol could have given the best answer.

This particular novel is known as a satire but I think the characters were more like the real people and their dilemma for morality.

The novel revolves around the main character Paul Ivanovitch Chichikov. He seems to be nice guy who is talkative and wants to get rich quick with a loophole in the Russian laws.

I don't think I'll be judging this character but I understand the conditions in which he chose to be a rich man by any means and he is not a Robin Hood. His success is his own personal goal at any cost and he has a good plan. We love it when a plan comes together but most of the time it doesn't :)

You can give it a shot and I'm sure if you love Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, you'll like it too. His writing may not be that great but he has given some great work.

Peace

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

This is one of the nice books I've read recently.

The book is about a childless couple in Alaska who yearn for a kid. There is a kid too in the story who is a girl and kind of a free spirit.

The story moves on and at one point I thought it was going to be a Vampire saga from Stephenie Meyer but thank god it is not.

I think that the author took too much liberty practically (there are some instances which you feel like are from a fiction movie) but that's how you write a book (with imagination).

The book is a light read and don't expect much. Most of the book is predictable by the end.

Love

The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous by Humra Quraishi, Khushwant Singh

This is one of the best books written by Khushwant Singh.

If you want to know his personal experience with some people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as a co-worker or journalist than this is a must read.

Khushwant Singh has written everything like in the face. I hope the guys who are still alive may have felt bad but this is him and no one can really stop him. The guys who are not anymore may be trying to strangulating him in heaven or hell, wherever he is.

Definitely without malice :)