Bookish

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9780194792196
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Davy for the Peggotty Family, Trot for Aunt Betsey, Doady for Dora, Daisy for Steerforth , Copperfield for the Micawber Family and Trotwood Copperfield for some – David Copperfield , the blunderstone born optimistic , diligent and perserving character happens to be the main protagonist of this first person narrated eighth novel from the works of the great author Charles Dickens . The story revolves around David, elucidating us about the ups and downs endured by him. The story spotlights the various facets of the life of David Copperfield, starting from his childhood to his maturity.

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Bantam Press
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9780593063118
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The first time I read a Steel, after a string of Dan Brown’s and Jeffery Archer’s, it was on my aunt’s recommendation. I was on vacation and Danielle Steel fit my mood to a T. I do admit, I was on the last hundred pages, and I still was wondering when the plot would set in!! Only when I was through with the last chapter, did I realize that the story was not progressing any further. It was a bit of an anti climax actually!

Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9780307947727
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It is a thoroughly British novel – not only because it declaims history to be not just the “lies of the victorious” but also “the delusions of the defeated” ,the British having contributed to most of the history of the past few centuries, but because it has the authentic stamp of Julian Barnes’ writing style.

Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9780330419048
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This novel by Jeffrey Archer serves intelligence combined with team work at its best. It very well signifies what a person is capable of doing if he is good at what he is, in fact it would be more precise to say a guy's work can be breathtaking in any field if he has mastered his own. Punishment for a crime doesn't have to be legal or harsh every time. Sometimes it is better served without a proper acknowledgement from the accused. In that way it remains a win-win condition. This first novel by Mr. Archer exactly resides in the same stratum.

Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2005
ISBN: 9780316011778
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Inspired from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, Elizabeth Kostova’s debut novel merges history and fiction to leave us with a compelling and exciting historical thriller. Kostova constantly quotes from Stoker’s novel and her characters keep referring to it from time to time. Even the Dracula (who she has portrayed as an intellectual, scholar and historian) in her novel owns a copy of Dracula. But The Historian is not about Dracula like Stoker’s Dracula was. Her novel is about a historian’s quest for truth and the character of Dracula makes only a brief, albeit important appearance in it.

Author: Narayan Wagle
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9788184001426
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I've read books of all kinds. Romantic novels. Books on war. Thrillers. I've read books where the protagonist was a singer or a soldier or a woman in a war-torn country. However, until I picked up Narayan Wagle's Palpasa Cafe, I had never read a romantic book set during the Civil War in Nepal, from the perspective of a painter.

The bookish never bend. The society might deny them their fundamental right of having light at night, but they are unstoppable. Their desire to read is more powerful than the society’s nighttime anti-illumination laws. Here are some tools to help you resist those lazy and unimaginative people who don’t read but sleep by night.