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Nishita's Rants and Raves
http://nishitak.wordpress.com
A blog primarily about books, and secondarily about everything else I experience.
Recent Posts
Yay! I Actually won Something
I have participated in a lot of online book giveaways, but never with any high hopes. To be honest, I have never in my life actually won anything ever. So, it came as such a pleasant surprise to learn last week that I won not one but two book giveawa...
Inkdeath – A Book Review
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke is that last of the 3 books in her Ink trilogy. I have reviewed the first 2 books, here and here. Note:This review assumes you have already read the first two books in the series. This book starts...
Finding Neverland – A Movie Review
I think I am in a very strange mood these days. I have been watching too many sappy movies and reading too many sappy books; and shedding so many tears that Mr.K has been left scratching his head whether it is something he has done… I did not m...
Has Anyone Tried Posterous Yet?
I am probably very late to the Posterous party, and everybody already knows everything there is to know about it; but still I need to think through Posterous out loud and hopefully, you guys can tolerate my rambling on about yet another blogging/soci...
Ah! Kabul!
As promised in my previous post, I am adding this poem “Kabul”, by the 17th-century Persian poet Saib-e-Tabrizi. This is one translation of the poem that has inspired the title of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini....
A Thousand Splendid Suns – A Book Review
Love that she's walking in high heels across the rocky terrain Khaled Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is a story of two women and their lives in Afghanistan over the past 30 years spanning such tumultous events as the Sovie...
