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Growing Up With Comics - Three Iconic Comic Book Figures Everyone Knows I've been a fan of comics for as long as I remember, and even before I could read I'd love to flip through a comics and sit in awe at the colorful images of super-heroes. There are three iconic figures in comics that' have been around for 40 years or longer and I'll briefly mention them and what I think makes them so popular. Batman Also know as "The Dark Knight", Batman has been a big favorite since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27. |
The author of Kraken, China Mieville is passionate about the city London. The author has already won several awards for portraying the city in different lights for his several books. China Mieville now says the city is going to be destroyed by the tentacles of a giant squid. Definitely, he is not the first author to say so, but the readers are sure to have most fun while reading his version. |
Art of Concentration by Harriet Griffey Those who have seen people at the work place these days understand the awkwardness of what we come across. Some enterprising people hide the email alerts on the computer monitor with help of paper fish, and then they wear a headset, not to hold conversations, just to block the noise. |
The very idea of a novel on the greatest architect of America, Frank Lloyd Wright, gives you the right idea about the man himself. Here is an outsized historical personality who is termed as an egomaniac by the author T C Boyle himself. He has also written about other heavyweights such as John Harvey Kellogg and Alfred Kinsey. Now you may be tempted to think the author T C Boyle may find it difficult to find a man with a greater size of ego than Frank Lloyd Wright. |
Indian Essentials is a quirky collection, to say the least, as there are twenty social commentators and of course writers (this is a book after all) have gathered together to make an effort to understand the psyche of the Indians. Everything is discussed threadbare, be it the female fascination with gold or Indian male's penchant for public urination. Other equally quintessentially Indian subjects discussed are the melas of Allahabad and the jhatkas of Bollywood, the frank matrimonials which embarrass us or our obsession with not talking about sex, nothing is left untouched. |
Women of the Tagore Household by Chitra Deb Women of the Tagore Household, written by Chitra Deb and translated By Smita Chowdhry & Sona Roy, chronicles the history of Tagore family, especially that part which has been away from the public spotlight. It is normal for the people to be curious about what happened in the family of Rabindranath Tagore, and the book "Women of the Tagore Household" satiates that very desire. The life and people of Bengal were greatly influenced by the Tagore family members. |
The celebration of literature is an exciting event. For all of the smart people in the world, it means that for the days of this event, we can breathe easy and get completely lost in the world of writing. No interruptions from overbearing spouses or idiot classmates. |
Man, by nature remember things better when they hear it in comparison to what they read. Our capacity to remember things on hearing is far better than our ability to recollect information that we read. |
Sound of the Beast - The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal Review If you love heavy metal music and the urge for deeper knowledge about the music is within you, then this is the book. The complete headbanging history of heavy metal. A fun review. |
Books play an important part in our lives. They give us knowledge and information that we need to be able to have a more enriching existence. They feed our imagination and creativity and our character as a person. |
