Man Booker Prize Winner 2012


Bookish Stuff

Here you have it the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 is Hilary Mantel for Bring Up the Bodies.  She is the first British woman to have won this prize twice.  If that isn’t incentive to read her work, what else do you need.  I must admit I’m encouraged and will probably start with […]

October 17, 2012

11. The White Tiger


Book Club, Book Reviews

Balram Halwai alias Munna is a driver – sarcastic, humorous, critical, angry, and a wealth of information on modern-day India.  He becomes a wanted man after murdering is master.  At no point as a reader was I sympathetic towards Balram.  I believe this was done on purpose.  In spite of everything, Balram does weave interesting […]

April 14, 2012