Sam’s StoryBy Elmo JayawardenaPaperback: 181 pagesPublisher: TimesEditions (January 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 9812327746ISBN-13: 978-9812327741 When I started to write this review, I realised that this is the third review about book that has, as a central character, a houseboy – the first was Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the second was Reef by Romesh Gunesekera. On th...

ReefBy Romesh GunesekeraPaperback: 192 pagesPublisher: Riverhead Trade (February 1, 1996)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1573225339ISBN-13: 978-1573225335 Right at the very end of my copy of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, I read that one of the novels the author liked was Reef by Romesh Gunesekera. I decided I would re-read this book. Reef is not a difficult book to read for it is s...

The Power of NowBy Eckhart TollePaperback: 224 pagesPublisher: New World Library; 1ST edition (August 19, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1577314808ISBN-13: 978-1577314806   In the middle of last year (2008), I was given this book together with Practising the Power of Now. The author provides an excellent explanation as to why it’s taken me so long to finish reading this book and also write t...

The Marriage Bureau for Rich PeopleBy Farahad ZamaFile Size: 438 KBPrint Length: 316 pagesPage Numbers Source ISBN: 0399155589Publisher: Berkley; 1 edition (June 11, 2009)Language: EnglishASIN: B0028T82M4 Sometime in November last year (2008), a friend of mine recommended that I read this book. I bought it and finished reading it in a day. The blurb on the back cover of the book states as follows...

Half of a Yellow SunBy Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePaperback: 543 pagesPublisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (September 4, 2007)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1400095204ISBN-13: 978-1400095209 On the back cover this work of fiction, the blurb provides the following description of the story: ‘In the 1960s Nigeria, a county blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, w...

The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-TimeBy Mark HaddonPaperback: 226 pagesPublisher: Vintage (May 18, 2004)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1400032717ISBN-13: 978-1400032716 In this novel, Christopher John Francis Boone is fifteen years old. He is autistic and his world is very ordered. As the blurb on the back cover of the book says, ‘he knows all the countries of the world and their capit...

Write It, Self-Publish It, Sell ItBy Bill KeethPaperback: 252 pagesPublisher: Halterburn (9 May 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0955886309ISBN-13: 978-0955886300 How time flies! As I write this review, it appears that it has been some five years now since I self-published The Banana Leaf Men. When I started that project all I knew was this – I had a manuscript, I wanted it published and I wanted t...

Ibu Maluku: The Story of Jeanne van DiejenBy Ron HeynnemanPaperback: 636 pagesPublisher: Sid Harta Publishers (May 1, 2002)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1877059080ISBN-13: 978-1877059087 This is what is stated on the back cover of this book:  IBU MALUKU is the unique story of a resolute woman, Jeanne van Diejen-Roemen, who survives the hardships of remote jungles, the horrors of two world wars...

A Study in Red – The Secret Journal of Jack the RipperBy Brian L PorterPaperback: 244 pagesPublisher: Double Dragon Publishing; 1st edition (January 11, 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1554045274ISBN-13: 978-1554045273 The description of this book on Amazon.com reads as follows: A Study in Red – The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper by Brian L Porter tells the story of Robert Cavendish, a m...