READ: A Passage to India
The idea of recommending this classic, at first, seemed like an easy out. That is until I asked my recent travel partner if she had read A Passage to India. When she stated, matter of [...]
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READ: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
One month is how long it took to stumble through the pages of often-times dry, amateurish and pointless drivel. Part 1 tells the story of Jeff, a writer unhappy with his life, and his travels to Venice for the sake of an assignment. What continues is mindlessly boring detail of his daily life and how unhappy he is. One does not need so many pages to paint the story of a lost life in search of meaning.
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A Good Book: Darsan – Seeing The Divine Image in India
For years I’ve been visiting temples, photographing them as tourists do, and leaving with little afterthought. Having just finished Darsan, my approach to “seeing” temples in the way the author describes has me eagerly excited to explore again. Diana Eck brilliantly describes, in simple terms, the importance of visual image to the Hindu culture and tradition.
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Shantaram, A Book That Can’t Be Put Down
A real-life novel written mostly about the author’s true experiences in India, Shantaram clocks in at 944 pages. The book is hefty in size but it offers a storyline different from the formulaic books of [...]
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READ: The Elephanta Suite
From The Washington Post Reviewed by Michael Dirda Paul Theroux is something of a throwback. In an era when so many novelists jump up and down with tricks, verbal antics, shock and razzle-dazzle, all the [...]
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MUST READ: A Fine Balance
Descriptive, raw, emotional, hard to read. A Fine Balance tells a tale so well written that you’ll want to finish this book as quickly as you started. Written as a work of fiction, if you’ve [...]
