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		<title>The Hobbit &#8211; JRR Tolkien &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Book Blurb : Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. ========================== As an avid enthusiast [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rhinoceros &#8211; Colin Forbes &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Book Blurb : Colin Forbes&#8217; perennially popular and energetic team of characters, Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman, are on the trail of five heads of state who are conspiring to cause massive civil unrest throughout the Western world. Dictatorship and martial law will be the only acceptable form of government. Tweed knows the identity [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fall of Giants &#8211; Ken Follett &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Book Blurb : It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sea of poppies &#8211; Amitav Ghosh &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 08:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Book Blurb: At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Magicians of Mazda &#8211; Ashwin Sanghi &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Magicians of Mazda&#8221; by Ashwin Sanghi is conspiracy fiction (for lack of a better term to describe the genre) at his best. The author takes up Zarathustra, the Zend Avesta, Parsi history through the ages and deftly combines it with the most unlikeliest of portions of known history. Ashwin Sanghi&#8217;s strength lies in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Mysterious Affair at Styles &#8211; Agatha Christie &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just finished re-reading &#8220;The Mysterious Affair at Styles&#8221; which not only marked the debut of Agatha Christie the author, but also of a fan favorite detective, Hercule Poirot. While I don&#8217;t remember reading the book the first time around (probably as a teenager around 30 yrs ago), this time around I thoroughly enjoyed the book [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Covenant of Water &#8211; Abraham Verghese &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wow&#8221;, simply &#8220;Wow&#8221;, is the only way I can express my feeling as I finish the book &#8220;The Covenant of Water&#8221; by Abraham Verghese. While I have read more than a fair share of books there are a select few that have evoked as many emotions in me as a reader as this one did. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prophet Song &#8211; Paul Lynch &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I happened to read the news regarding Paul Lynch winning the 2023 Booker Prize for his book, Prophet Song, I just read the blurb of the book out of curiosity. I was immediately piqued by the blurb which read as follows &#8211; On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Yama&#8217;s Lieutenant &#8211; Anuja Chandramouli &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Goodreads blurb: The inhabitants of the thousand hells of Yama have broken free from their prison and vowed to wreak havoc on the heavens, the earth and hell. With the fiendish Hatakas and Narakamayas teamed up with Naganara, a terrifying necromancer hungry for power, the universe is headed for war and destruction unless one human [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stolen Hope &#8211; Shubha Vilas &#8211; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Goodreads blurb: In the evil labyrinths of Dandakaranya forest, human values are put to test. Rama’s righteousness, Lakshmana’s loyalty and Sita’s endurance reflect our own sense of values and judgment in difficult times. The story unfolds the facets of human life – the conflict and the trickery, the praise and the slander and, above all, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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