Hours and hours of a Sunday afternoon, better part of a Saturday evening after work or even holidays, spent frantically looking for that perfect book. One that will feel right the moment you hold it in your hands. You read the first page and then are filled with this overwhelming desire to read on and never stop till you have devoured the book. Till you have assimilated every fine detail, every intricate sentence, you feel restless and unsatiated. The Last Song of Dusk, by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, is one such book. It makes all those hours spent hunting for a novel worthwhile.

In the sprawling backdrop of Udaipur and Bombay in colonial India, Shanghavi unravels a book so riveting that you cannot help but read on. The narrative transports the reader to the 1920’s to live and experienc the joy, grief, love, loss, separation, of Anuradha and Vardhaman Gandharva.

The colorful language is fresh and really bold. The personifications, allegories, analogies, are what makes it interesting. It has a mix of fable, magic and folklore and follows in the steps of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Paulo Coelho. His style of bold story telling will really go down well with those bored with an overdose of Jhumpa Lahiri’s tales of second generation indian-Americans (hope she comes up with something more refreshing next time).

Obama Nation is The New York Times bestselling book by Dr Jerome Corsi in which the author analyzes the life and career of Barack Obama.

Its controversial and the timing may lead one to conclude that the author is trying to latch onto Obama mania that has gripped the nation and the world, which I think is safe to add after Obama’s rock star like reception in Europe.

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Dude, where’s the party? Apparently, according to the latest Princeton Review College Rankings (no affiliation with Princeton college), its at University of Florida.

The gators can raise a toast to that. And the fact the college won a handful of sports championships has helped fuel the on campus revelry.

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All the book lovers would be pleasently surprised to know today is that lovable book - Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potters birthday. She was born on 28 July 1866 and died on 22 December 1943.

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Want to do a vanishing act or emerge unchained from a chest in which you were shackled and trapped, then Conjurers Monthly is just for you.

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Do you want to be robbed in broad day light by a women wearing snake oil salesman board on her forehead? If you have nothing better to do then head over to Concetta Bertoldi.

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Whats the deal with this? Being from New York and supporting facial growth.

Something going on in town regarding the Bearded ones?

I am on the look out for this one.

If you have a knack for programming and want to learn how to develop some cool web based applications using the latest technologies like PhP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript/Ajax, this is just what the doctor ordered. Apress has just released a highly rated and recommended book aptly titled - Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP.

The book has been written by Quentin Zervaas. There is not much information available about the author but the book’s web page has the following to say about the author’s work,

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