Looking for suggestions to add to your ‘books to read’ list? Check out these book reviews by Indian author Jyoti Arora. You’ll discover books that have stood the test of time and have won readers’ heart all over the world.
The magic of a good book is that no matter how unrelated its story is to your life, it can still throw a light into the secret corners of your own heart. The Awakening by Kate Chopin has this magic too. Kate Chopin may never have earned much money by her writings. She may have earned…
“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is the epigram that starts Moods, the first serious…
This Side of Paradise is the first novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is this book that made him an instant literary sensation. Maybe he is now more famous for his masterpiece The Great Gatsby (check out my post about The Great Gatsby). But This Side of Paradise too has withstood the test of time and…
The first thing that grasped me as I began the novel ‘Vanity Fair’ was the immense confidence of the author, William Makepeace Thackeray. He doesn’t just assert his confidence in every word of his masterpiece, but proclaims it boldly in the very title by calling his book ‘Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero.’ Yes,…
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” That’s how The Great Gatsby begins. And these four short lines aptly sum up the one obsession that drives Jay Gatsby, the hero of the…
Reading a good book is a pleasure, but reading a great book is an experience in itself, a strong, inescapable experience which makes the sinews of your heart echo with emotions as the book lifts you up and transports you to its own world, forcing you to feel and experience what its characters feel and…
