Shiva Trilogy

'The Immortal of Meluha' is the first book of the Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi. This book was strongly recommended by my friend who went all gaga about this book. With the initial details provided by my friend, I was skeptical about picking this up as this, I assumed, is a mythological book. But to my surprise, this proved to be quite a well written fiction. The actual mythological characters are revisited with a different and logical story. And that too without a loophole. I must say, its an impressive book. A true page-turning and a gripping narration.

'The Secret of the Nagas' is the sequel. I couldn't just keep my mind off this story. I had to read this immediately after its first book. Fortunately, I read the first one just before the sequel was supposed to be released. So without any delay in between I completed both the books in a stretch. I simply loved them.

Very much impressed by the author's style of writing. Would love to read more of his work. Guess, I have to wait for quite sometime as the final book is scheduled to be released only next year. Hmm.

P.S: Presently reading 'Love, Life & All That Jazz'

Anything for you, ma'am

I bought this book, written by an Indian author, Tushar Raheja, having found no other good books at the store. Frankly speaking, I have not read many interesting books by Indian authors and so was hesitant to pick this up(Guess, readers can recommend me few). But my urge to experiment something new made me to finally buy this.
The start was not impressive as per me. To be specific, the author, in his narration, has time-traveled and for me that is not cool. And the narration was intermittent w.r.t the main theme of the book as well. Hence I didn't find this interesting to continue. But again, I forced myself to flip pages and found it comparatively better as the story started unfolding. Turning point was when the hero meets his heroine, of course. And I should appreciate author in making this scene really interesting and beautiful by his narration and sense of humor.
Once the hero decides to meet his heroine, the actual story begins and that too with many hurdles in his way. The book is all about the hurdles he faces, the way he manages out of them to face a few more in the process. I should say, this is a typical Bollywood-type story with good amount of funny scenes which makes you laugh a lot and excites you at the same time with the events that unfold.
In his narration, on many occasions, has emphasized on the fact by explicitly mentioning that he is here to impress the readers and so has taken decisions to explain few things in detail or has moved out providing limited information. Again, this is no good, as per me.
Having said all that, I would like to tell that the book is 'okay' one which will make you laugh and wonder at the events. A good first-timer book. If you like Bollywood type movies/stories then this book shouldn't disappoint you.

P.S: Presently reading 'The immortals of Meluha'.

A walk to remember

One line from the book rightly said, "In every way, a walk to remember". And I couldn't agree more. This book introduces you two characters Landon and Jamie, the unusual circumstances they meet in to get closer, their sweet moments together, the changes that bring in them and more importantly their walk together.
A beautiful book which will surely make you feel for the characters with good humor at times during the course of the story.

Oliver's story

Yet another interesting read, I must say. Author's narration of Oliver's story, with details concerning his fights with his own self after Jenny's death and also about his new relationship with Marcie which actually put him in more confusions about his feelings, is completely admirable. Though, I personally didn't like the end to Oliver's story. May be I wanted a happy ending. Nonetheless a good story to read.

TCS World 10K marathon Bangalore 2011

Race Category: 10K
Timing: 01:08:59

Update[09/04/2018]:
This 10K details somehow was missed out being posted, which I'm doing it now :) While cleaning my old items, I found the 2011 medal and the BIB. And when I checked my blog, this 2011 edition was missing and hence this late post.