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Book review: A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Barack Obama`s A PROMISED LAND is a terrific read, all 700 pages of the text, with some terrific photographs tucked away at the end of the tome. The point is, the 44th President of the United States is one heck of a writer. Written in a very reader-friendly style, the prose practically soaring when he…

Book review: This Land Is Our Land by Suketu Mehta

Meanwhile, migrants elsewhere….. Suketu Mehta`s THIS LAND IS OUR LAND is the intelligent combination of the personal, where Mehta talks of many members of his clan migrating to the US, and the professional, where he traces the troubled route of people braving some almost insurmountable odds to make a happy place for themselves in a…

Books: Very Very Brief Takes

A quick look at some good books JUST FINISHED READING: Jo Baker`s LONGBOURNE, which was published in 2014. Which is the below stairs perspective of `Pride and Prejudice.` What`s amazing is that this is not really Jane Austen fan fiction; Baker fashions an absorbing tale of how the servants (yes, we have to…