Author Sita Brahmachari‘s latest book is Car Wash Wish, her second novella for Barrington Stoke, a UK publisher who specialise in making books accessible to struggling readers, with a special emphasis on dyslexia. It’s an inter-generational story … Continue reading ...
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By: Savita Kalhan,
on 3/4/2014
It’s World Book Week this week, so I thought I would share some of my favourite reads over the last year in teen/YA and adult fiction. I hope you’ll share some of your favourites, books you would recommend, in the comments section. It’s always nice to find undiscovered treasures...
Here's my recent Teen/YA reads:
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell 
Wonder by R J Palacio
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
And one of my all time favourite books –
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On Monday, June 11, 2012, @HarperCollinsCa launched a new campaign aimed at the reading public called Summer Passport. It’s being described as ”your destination for the greatest globe-trotting book vacation.” Each week all summer long, HarperCollins Canada will “visit a different part of the world through summer reads, delicious recipes, fun contests and book giveaways [and] exclusive content from authors.”
The first stop on this reading adventure is a country I’ve always wanted visit: Italy. HarperCollins has concocted the following trio of books for your reading pleasure:
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.
When Julie Jacobs inherits a key to a safety deposit box in Siena, Italy, she is told it will lead her to an old family treasure. As Julie crosses paths with the descendants of the families involved in Shakespeare’s unforgettable blood feud, she begins to realize that the notorious curse — “A plague on both your houses!” — is still at work, and that she is the next target.
Lush, gorgeous and completely engaging, Made in Italy takes up where Dolce Vitaleft off, giving us a full-on appreciation of all things Italian. Food and style go hand in hand in David Rocco’s world, be it in his television series or his cookbooks, andMade in Italy is no exception. Gorgeous location photography puts the reader right into the scene, offering atmosphere to die for.
By: Maryann Yin,
on 10/27/2010
Rohinton Mistry‘s novel Such a Long Journey has been pulled from a course syllabus and burned by students at a Mumbai university.
CBC News reported: “At the centre of the book ban is Aditya Thackeray, the 20-year-old grandson of the man who founded India’s nationalist party, Shiv Sena. In the book, Shiv Sena is portrayed as a party that uses violent tactics, implying that it can hire goons to rough up opponents. Thackeray reportedly discussed the book’s objectionable elements with fellow students at St. Xavier’s College, affiliated with the University of Mumbai, triggering the protest.”
Thackeray and his supporters feel that the book contains an unfair portrayal of India’s nationalist party and excessive sexual content. Students burned copies of the book and the university’s faculty removed the novel from a list of optional texts in the school’s English program. A few days after the student demonstration, two dozen teachers banded together to protest the ban.
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