Travel With Books!

  A  delightful and entrancing  story for children to wonder and adults to ponder! The protagonists, our incorrigible and exasperating toad, the loyal and responsible friends, the water rat and ever-gadding mole, and finally our revered badger.  It's about the forest adventures of the comrades rat and toad, luncheons, dinner parties, forest gala setting and hubbub, the vanity and conceited adventures of Mr. Toad and the sagacity of our revered Badger. All are gallivanting around in the forest, a pure joyride! Kenneth Grahame can make anyone develop a stark fascination for forests by his brilliant exposition of dense nature theme and tidbit details that go unnoticed. There is no moment of mental lull when you dive into this menagerie of our distinctive and adorable protagonists. A meditative outstanding forest joyride which professes loyalty and value of friendship, ramifications of greed and robbery, misjudgments and reverence , conceit and vanity, and...

For me " The Broken Wings " is not only a tale of love, separation and agony, but also on the stronghold of religious contractors on the common public and the contraptions they use to play with the credulity of the innocent and gain power !  After drenching into Gibran's heart-wrenching quotes on love, separation and meaning of life, I felt his writing is majorly inspired by the "Songs Of Solomon" from the Bible. As King Solomon mentions the gist of life in few words, Everything is useless under the Sun, and at end everything dissipates, Gibran has also ornated the novel on the same lines.  My poetic soul was brimming with emotions endless, as this Lebanese-American author, dauntlessly offers the world with a story of true love, which changes one's life journey, molds the youth and becomes a prop for the old age. How love takes the shape of sorrow eventually ! The book begins with Gibran defining his tryst with solitude during his youth. It wasn't the la...