A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author: Khaled Hosseini

I read this book after The Kite Runner. Well to be true it was not as gripping as Kite Runner but may be this explored the more emotional aspects. And how the hate relationship gets converted to loving one. I loved the way the potrayal of a woman is done from childhood to end. How at every stage the male relation deceived her and finally hos she get the soul mate.
A must read for all who want to know about Afghanistan and how the people of war torn country struggle everyday for themselves and for relations.

Author: Karen Armstrong

This is the book is must for those who want to know more about Islam, the reasons for many things as Polygamy etc. Some of these rule or rituals do not make mush practical sense now but had great values when they were made by Muhammad at that era.
Excellent concise biography. This is a great supplement to the book on Islam by Karen. I read these two books in parallel and that was a cool experience !! I am jumping on books on other books from Karen and also History of Sikhs Vol II :)

Islam: A Short History

Author: Karen Armstrong

I am fan of the author and the way she details out the facts without any bias is amazing. This is a must read book for all who think or assume that fundamentalists are only in Islam. Who think Islam is aggressive by nature and who do not know that Islam is one of the religion who was made to care more abt weak and poor people of the society. Its an eye opener!!

Three Cups of Tea

Author: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

A moving real story. At first I was not impressed with the first few pages, but gradually it went so close to my heart. There are very rare such people who dedicte their person time, life and everything for someone who are not much related apart from humanity. At first one will feel what big difference can it make. But such attempts do make difference in long run.
I am not sure how much active is the CIA now, and after the Swat contact, I hope the organization keeps doing the good work. Its is 10 times harder when one does something like this in Pakistani and Afghan tribal areas, dominated by Taliban.

Kite Runner

Author: Khaled Hosseini

Amazing book. This book was recommended by my wife. She is not a serious reader but some how started reading this book and did not stop till she finished this. I was amazed and was damn curious what in that book made her to read that with so much dedication.
I immediately started reading that book once she finished and I also bought "Thousand Splendid Suns" when I was at page 20, since I was going on some trip.
The book is brilliant and gave me much insight abt Afghanistan and an idea abt thousands of tragedies happened there due to war. Its a war torn nation.

Shantaram

Author: Gregory David Roberts

One of the best books I have been through. I was not knowing abt the author and the book when I picked it up from Book cafe. I was attracted by the last page which tells abt the author and how the book was re-written thrice.
It starts with a okay note but the characters, happenings, twists & turns will keep you awake late night. A movie is also planned on this novel having Amitabh as Khader Bhai and Johnny Depp as Author. A must read.

What this blog is about ?

One of the passions I have. Books. Will try to share some good reads and may be some reviews of releases too :)
A very brief history about books and how they evolved. This text is a cut paste of here and there but a good compilation :)

The word book comes from Old English "bōc" which comes from Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech.Similarly, in Slavic languages (e.g. Russian and Bulg arian (bukva — letter) is cognate to "beech". It is thus conjectured that the earliest Indo-European writings may have been carved on beech wood.

The kind of books I read are non-fiction, history or biography.