Move over Monica and Chandler – Y and Vijay are here, the quintessential metro couple walking the thin line between life in a metropolis and values of a small town. They are crazy, they are fun, they are you and me and that’s perhaps why blogger Yashodhara Lal’s debut novel Just Married, Please excuse strikes such a chord. There is nothing remarkable about the plot apart from the fact that it is so real that in Yasho’s daily struggles you see yourself. And reading about one’s life, when the narrative is laced with humour, is always fun.  Think Sex and the City or Marian Keyes!

Y is the tempestuous 21st century, sarcasm-sprouting IIM graduate who after much trepidation takes the plunge with steady, laid back, still-trying-to-get-over-his-small-town ways Vijay. Her reluctance is understandable – ask any 23 year old, independent metro girl who’s had the question popped. Living together is cool but marriage to a person who, in many ways is the antithesis of you? Absolutely not. Why they even think in different languages! She can’t remember what namaste is called in hindi (!!!) and he loses his tenacious command over English every time he gets agitated. Tough decision but our dear author knows it is the right one when said guy holds her head over the toilet seat without a wince. And thus the drama begins. Suddenly trousers and tee girl Y finds herself struggling to get into a saree to please her mom-in-law or plying pa-in-law with innumerable cups of tea and rhombus shaped rotis to win him over. Not that Mummyji and Papaji are the dreaded monsters-in-law portrayed in Ektaa Kapoor soaps. No, they are the sweet, cute, slightly conservative couple who recognize that while their bahu maybe a complete disaster in the kitchen, drink alcohol and wear short pants, their son finds her to be a great person and that, is enough. They don’t pop a vein, not even when said daughter-in-law throws a fit at 2 in the morning and stalks out of the house. Instead, mummyji calmly explains, “ Ladne ki kya baat hain? Arrey, kabhi main maan jaati hoon, kabhi wo maan jaate hain.” How profound!

And how very difficult to implement. Y and V discover that the real challenge is to get used to each other’s idiosyncrasies - his penchant for all things alu gobhi and her tendency to blow a fuse at the drop of a hat. You breeze through the first 120 pages with a smile on your face as you encounter their efforts to buy a house and witness Y’s driving lessons. And just as you think that this crazy but adorable couple has found their equilibrium, princess peanut decides to make an entry. Thus begins a whole new set of this-is-the-way-to-it battles when internet based wisdom finds itself at odds with good old tradition . Yashodhara portrays with ease and remarkable wit the struggles of a newly wed working couple as they learn to handle their pregnancy. However, it is after baby Anoushka is born that the book loses its pace and charm. The flow, realism and hey-that-could-be-me feel of the earlier chapters that compelled you to keep turning the pages is lost and the embellishments become more glaring. Some encounters, like the one when Y’s househelp raises a false alarm and has the entire locality on the streets at 2 am seem a little too far fetched. Hey, they could still be real but pardon me, if I find them a tad difficult to swallow.

Like most books by Indian authors, Just Married, Please Excuse has a fairly liberal dose of Hinglish sprinkled across it’s pages but Yashodhara’s colloquial style of writing ensures that it does not jar. Her language is contemporary, and yet thankfully it does not make a mockery of English, unlike a lot of new publications. For that alone, the author deserves our gratitude.

Fitzgerald of the Great Gatsby fame once said that to write a good book “you have to sell your heart” because when you begin you only have your emotions to offer. And that is exactly what Yashodhara does. Her candor evokes a sense of déjà vu. (Makes you wonder if this book truely is a work of fiction as the cover states or is it a memoir? Y, are you listening? ) If you are trying to find your niche in the big urban jungle, every page of the book, barring the last few chapters perhaps, is likely to remind you of an instance in your life or of someone around you. And if you are still enjoying the relative coziness of small town India as it races to meet the metros, you’ll get a glimpse of what life has in store for you. Relax, it’s not bad; just insane! A little bit like Marriage

Title: Just Married, Please Excuse; By: Yashodhara Lal; ISBN: 9789350292273
Cover price: INR 199;  Format: Paperback; Genre: Fiction; Published by: HarperCollins Publishers India

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Leddies.

The Velenntyne Day is here, and louve is in the air.

(sniff) Can you smell it?

Annyway.

Let’s celebrate romance by taking a look at some of the more romantic literary characters to have tumbled out of ‘romance novels‘ (and similar works of propaganda that were almost certainly metaphors for the authors’ own failed love lives);

1. Edward Rochester of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre – (Alternately cold, imperious, and withholding; he proposes to Jane without disclosing the much-married madwoman imprisoned in his attic)

2. Richard Sharpe of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series – (“He’ll fall in love with anything in a petticoat”, according to Patrick Harper – Richard’s loyal friend)

3. Fitzwilliam Darcy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice – (In 2010, a protein sex pheromone in male mouse urine, that is sexually attractive to female mice, was named Darcin in honour of the character)

4. Heathcliff of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights – (A man prone to domestic violence, kidnapping, murder and digging up dead lovers – a fact perhaps unknown to Gordon Brown when he compared himself to “an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff” in 2008.)

5. Rupert Campbell Black of Jilly Cooper’s The Rutshire Chronicles – (Cooper has acknowledged that Rupert’s character is based upon Andrew Parker Bowles, the ex-husband of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Incidentally, she left him for Prince Charles – a man with a face for radio)

That’s just the beginning of my list. I could go on and on, but let me not kill all that love in one go. So more later….Till then

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!

People!

2012 is about to be quite a year; doomsday predictions notwithstanding.

With a star studded line-up of authors and titles to choose from, rest assured the literary roller-coaster at INDIAreads is not about to stop anytime soon.

Check out these gems that may be pre-ordered at INDIAreads shortly;

1. I’ve Got Your Number – Sophie Kinsella (Feb 2012): When Poppy loses her engagement ring and her mobile all in the same disastrous evening, it seems making use of a phone she finds by chance, abandoned in a hotel bin, is the obvious solution.

But inevitably her life becomes entangled with the real owner of the phone, a high-flying businessman called Sam who becomes increasingly irritated when Poppy can’t resist meddling in his affairs…

2. The Oath of The Vayuputras – Amish Tripathi (Oct 2012): Book Three in the hugely popular Shiva Trilogy – after ‘The Immortals of Meluha’ and ‘The Secret of The Nagas’ – keeps the feeding frenzy going.

3. Emerging India: Economics, Politics And Reforms  – Bimal Jalan (Jan 2012): A collection of essays written over 20 years, this is an essential read for anyone seriously interested in the history and future of India’s development as a nation.

4. Didi: A Political Biography – Monobina Gupta (Jan 2012): Gupta brings her experience as a journalist and commentator on the politics in West Bengal to paint a fascinating portrait of the woman who defeated the longest-serving communist government in the world; and is fast emerging as one of the most important political figures in India today.

5. When Loss is Gain – Pavan K Varma (Jan 2012): Action-packed yet contemplative, Pavan K. Varma’s first novel is a powerful story of love and loss, despair and hope, chance and destiny, and the true meaning of joy and sorrow in every human life.

6. Rahul – Jatin Gandhi & Veenu Sandhu (Jan 2012): .Who is Rahul Gandhi—the real man—beneath the hype and the hatchet jobs? What are the ideas and influences that propel him? Who are his advisers? And how will he tackle his new responsibilities as his mother, Sonia Gandhi, makes way for him? Two young journalists, Jatin Gandhi and Veenu Sandhu, trace the evolution of the Rahul brand and explore the fascinating relationship between modernity and dynasty in this incisive political biography.

7. Neglected Poems – Gulzar (Jan 2012): Neglected only in name, these poems represent Gulzar at his creative and imaginative best, as he meditates on nature, delves into human psychology, explores great cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and New York , and confronts the most telling moments of everyday life.

8. Micro – Michael Crichton (Jan 2012): An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton s greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research.

Three men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine, razor sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room, almost invisible to the human eye…

9. Smart Trust – Stephen M. R. Covey (Foreword by Indra Nooyi) (Jan 2012): Find out why trusted people are more likely to get hired or promoted, get the best projects and bigger budgets, and are last to be laid off. This book will forever shift your perspective as it reveals and validates once and for all the transformational power of trust. Reading Smart Trust will help you thrive in an increasingly unpredictable marketplace.

10. The Innocent – David Baldacci (Apr 2012): Freelance hitman Will Robie gets a job from the US government. Even as he expertly nails his target – a suspected enemy of the country – he sees something at the scene of crime which he suspects will have deadly consequences …

Does he need to change sides to save lives, including his own…?

11. Untitled Memoir – Salman Rushdie (Sep 2012): The memoir will cover Rushdie’s childhood, his family life – he has been married four times – and his time in exile.

12. The Limpopo Academy of Private Investigation – Alexander McCall Smith (Apr 2012): The new installment in the perpetually delightful and bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.

Precious Ramotswe is back and, as usual, her plate is full.  She’s called in to tackle a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter’s school. Her infinitely trustworthy assistant, Grace Makutsi, is having trouble adjusting to wedded bliss; a problem to test even the formidable talents of Mma Ramotswe. And the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of The Principles of Private Investigation – the No. 1 Ladies’ prized manual – has arrived, right there, in Botswana, on a case of his own. Bush tea, anyone?

13. Home – Toni Morrison (May 2012): The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.

An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home–and himself–may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from; a place he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits childhood memories and the war, that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding himself–and his home.

14. Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel (May 2012): In this sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall, Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. From history’s darkroom, this novel offers a speaking picture to the modern world; a vision of Tudor England so recognizable it defies archaism. It is the work of one of our greatest writers at the peak of her powers.

15. Betrayal – Danielle Steel (Mar 2012): A renowned film director confronts an act of unimaginable treachery—and the first devastating blow will not be the last.

In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel reveals the dark side of fame and fortune. At the same time, she brilliantly captures a woman’s will to navigate a minefield of hurt and loss—towards a new beginning.

16. Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo (Feb 2012): In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book by the Pulitzer winner, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human; thanks in no small part to three years of uncompromising reporting.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.

Chick lit is a genre of fiction which states the issues of modern womanhood, often humorously and lightheartedly. The books in the genre are always in the best selling list. The plots usually consist of women experiencing usual life issues, such as love, marriage, dating, relationships, friendships, roommates, corporate environments, weight issues, addiction, and much more. However, it is different from the typical romance novel genre, as here the heroine’s relationship with her family or friends is often just as important as her romantic relationships.

The word Chick lit was first mentioned in the print in 1988, originally used as slang for course titled “Female Literary Tradition”. The Chick lit heroines are super confident, hip, stylish and career driven. To define the genre in the most general way, chick lit features a female protagonist whose womanhood essentially impacts the plot.

Some of the famous Chick lits adapted into movies/Series are:

Bet Me and Anyone But You by Jennifer Cruise

I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

Sex And The City by Candace Bushnel

Five famous chick lit writers and their famous works:

Helen Fielding: The Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Bridget Jones’s Diary: Edge of Reason

Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic takes Manhattan, The Gatecrasher

Lauren Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada Series, Last Night at Chateau Marmont, Weisberger Shoe Box

Meg Cabot: Princess Lessons, Ransom My Heart,Size Doesn’t Matter, Princess In The Spotlight

Candace Bushnel: Lipstick Jungle, Four Blondes, Sex And The City

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Looking for an M & B with a good storyline, intrigue and Indian protagonists? Pick up Metro Reads’ latest offering: Love on the Rocks by Ismita Tandon Dhankher. With all the ingredients of a “timepass read” this novel does full justice to Metro Reads’ tagline – ‘fun, fast and fiesty reads.’

Life promises to be a lot of fun for newly wed Sancha when she joins her husband Chief Officer Aaron Andrews on his merchant navy vessel, Sea Hyena. However less than 24 hours on the High seas she realizes that all is not well aboard the ship. Confronted with a series of disturbing occurences, including a theft and a murder, the inquisitive bride sets about unravelling the multiple mysteries. She soon realizes that nothing is as it seems and no one, including her husband or his best friend First Engineer Harsh Castillo, can be trusted. What does a woman in love do under such circumstances?Disclose her suspicions to the investigationg officer or give her hubby the benefit of doubt? And who is the murderer?

After the first few chapters you will begin to have your suspicions, but Dhankher manages to successfully keep you guessing till almost the end. The needle of suspicion keeps pointing to different characters; each time you pat yourself on the back for playing Sherlock , there is a new development. A die hard mystery lover might be able to nail the culprit way before he is revealed, but most readers will enjoy the little twist in the end; not Sheldonesque but nonetheless interesting.

The real strength of this debut novel is the voice that Dhankher provides to virtually all her characters. The story is told not from the point of view of a single person – Sancha. Harsh, Aaron, Raghav (the investigating officer), Popeye (the Captain) – everyone gets their say. This refreshing style provides the reader with an interesting insight into the mind and emotions of human beings, particularly of those who have to stayed away from land and their loved ones for long periods of time.

Dhankher’s writing is engaging, the language colloquial and humour, refreshing. The setting – a merchant navy ship – is new and interesting and the plot reasonably well developed. The book may not qualify as the best mystery novel of the year but it definitely does full justice to the “new genre” that Penguin has sought to introduce. A genre of books that “don’t weigh you down with complicated stories, don’t ask for much time and don’t have to be lugged around.”

It is a book for the youth of today who have neither the time nor the patience to indulge in “heavier” reads. Love on the Rocks may not give you an adrenaline rush and it doesn’t exactly compel you to burn the midnight oil just to get to the end, but that was never the intention of the series. Love on the Rocks sets a comfortable pace; it allows you to pick it up in between your chores and enjoy slices of it. No compulsions, no information…pure, simple entertainment. And it definitely qualifies as a good candidate for a Bollywood potboiler.

All in all a laudable debut novel and a great “light” read. Pick it up the next time you plan to catch a flight or want to unwind after a crazy workday.

“Abandon” by Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot symbolizes with light novels, but her latest novel “Abandon” seems to be in a different league than the Princess Diaries that brought her fame and adulation. In the novel, the main protagonist Pierce is seen engrossed in the battle with the underworld. When she first encounters a dark stranger, she is convinced that he takes life but his methodology in doing so was devoid of any figment of imagination. As Pierce tries to uncover the truth surrounding the shocking death of someone close to her, unexpected secrets spurt up and pose several questions in her heart.

Chick lit, Romance, Mystery and Science Fiction are her preferred genre of writing.

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear”   – Meg Cabot`

AMY TAN

Born on February 19, 1952 to Chinese immigrants in Oakland California, Amy Tan is known for the sensitive portrayal of mother-daughter relationships in  her novels. Amy’s Mom had married her father, a Baptist minister, after she fled from an abusive husband in Shanghai. She had been forced to leave behind her three daughters who Amy met for the first time in 1987, when she traveled with her mother to China. It is said that this meeting, along with her mother’s memories of life in China influenced many of Amy’s novels. Amy’s mother wanted her to become a doctor but Amy choose fiction as her domain. She obtained her her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English  from San José State University. Despite this she did not plan on becoming a  novelist. She started writing as a therapy; she was a workaholic. In 1989, her first novel, the Joyluck Club was published and it won the Commonwealth Gold Award. It ruled the New York Times Best sellers list for a long time and was made into a critically acclaimed film. Tan has also written two children’s novels. 

Popular Amy Tan novels include:

The Kitchen God’s Wife

The Bonesetter’s daughter

The Hundred Secret Senses

HELEN FIELDING

Helen Fielding is best known for creating Bridget Jones, the thirty something woman struggling to make sense of love, life and other things in today’s world. Born on February 19, 1958 in west Yorkshire, UK, she studied English at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She joined the BBC as a regional researcher in 1979 and went on to become the production manager for many children’s and entertainment shows. She also wrote and produced documentaries on Africa and in the 1990s became a columnist for some of UK’s most prestigious newspapers. The extremely popular Bridget Jones Diary began as an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995. The idea was born when the newspaper approached Fielding to write a column on her life as a single woman in London. Fielding rejected the idea of an autobiographical column and instead created a fictional character who could reflect the concerns, traumas and everyday life of single women in the 20th century, albeit with some exaggeration for comic relief.  These columns later formed the subject for Bridget Jones Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason – two novels that sold over 15 million copies and were made into blockbuster movies.

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A quick witted, hot tempered, “i-will-do-as-I-please-the-world-be-damned” heroine; a high handed, roguish and equally temperamental hero; Regency

England replete with its gossip, glitter and graces. The Bath Tangle has all the ingredients that have made Georgette Heyer’s romances instant best sellers. The main protagonists are  intelligent, and therefore in the language of regency romances, “unconventional”, hot headed and egoistic. Their battle of wits and egos leads to a series of misunderstandings, mistaken engagements and an interesting tangle. And the setting for all these misadventures is, of course, as the book name suggests, Bath.

When 25 year old Serena Carlow discovers that her eccentric father has entrusted the Marquis of Rotherham, the man she jilted and therefore publically shamed, as her guardian she is furious. As if that is not sufficient, the old Duke also willed that Serena would get all her entails if and only if, she married with the consent of the “infuriating” Marquis. To cope with her changed circumstances Serena escapes to Bath with her step mother, the soft hearted, albeit dim witted and very young, Fanny. Here she meets an old flame and promptly becomes engaged to him. What follows is a series of misadventures till all is set right in the end.

The Bath Tangle is above all Serena’s story. The male protagonist is present but more in Serena’s  thoughts and reflections than in actual scenes. In Serena we once again find the almost “stereotypical” Regency heroine – daring, intelligent, unconventional, proud and loyal to those that she loves. Yet Heyer’s writing ensures that there is not a dull moment in the book. The characters of the hero and the heroine may seem somewhat familiar, but their exchanges and indeed their interactions with others are so lively that nothing in the book seems repetitive. The Bath Tangle is full of Heyer’s trademarks- vivid descriptions of life in Regency England, strong characters and brilliant characterization, charming if somewhat obsolete Regency vernacular and lots of sarcasm and witticisms. Of course some times the reference to the politics of the era leave the modern reader a bit bewildered but then these are minor distractions.

An interesting read for those who enjoy well written historical romances.

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ISABEL ALLENDE

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Born on August 2, 1942, Allende is the world’s most widely read Spanish language author.  She was born in Lima, Peru where her father (the first cousin of President Allende of Chile) was serving as an Ambassador. She worked as a journalist for many Latin American publications. During an interview, the famous poet pablo Neruda commented that she had too much imagination to be  a journalist. Thence began Allende’s literary career.

Allende’s writings are often based on her own experiences and portray very strong women protagonists. In her own words, “Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”

Some of her famous works include:

Daughter of Fortune

City of the Beasts

The House of the Spirits

The Island beneath the Sea

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Madeline Baker, also known as Amanda Ashley was born in California on August 2, 1963. She started writed because  was bored with nothing to do after her kids went to bed. Six years and 31 rejections later her novel, Reckless Heart was published. Since then she as established herself as the queen of historical romances. Some of her books include:

Under Apache Skies

Wilderness Christmas

Reckless series

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