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CHENNAI BOOK FAIR 2019 | The Books I Bought


In my New Year Resolution tag ( see here ) , I kinda promised myself to finish my TBR pile before going on my next book shopping spree. As expected I managed to break my resolution even before 2 weeks of setting it. The reason – CHENNAI BOOK FAIR 2019. I went to the book fair yesterday and bought a couple of books.  I know...  I have absolutely no SELF CONTROL whatsoever. But in my defence, these books were available at really cheap prices . Also , might I add this book fair was the best I have ever been to.  I ended up straining my leg muscles due to all the walking around and checking out each and every stall . By the time I reached my house , I had severe headaches and leg pains – but all of this was totally WORTH IT...!! 😊

Following are the books I bought –

1.       The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga – I heard about this book back when I was preparing for my competitive exams . I was memorising the current affairs and that is when I learnt that this book had won the Man Booker prize for the year 2008. This will be my first time reading a booker prize winning novel. The story follows the extraordinary journey of a man named Balram who hails from rural india . he finally gets a major break from the darkness of his  village life when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur in Delhi. The synopsis says , “ MEET BALRAM HALWAI, the ‘White Tiger’ : servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of sven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story....”

2.       The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid- This is yet another acclaimed novel that I bought . This was apparently shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for the year 2007. I think there was also a movie made out of it a couple of years back. The synopsis at the back of this book talks about a conversation between a bearded man and some American stranger. This bearded man with perfect immaculate English speaks about his love affair with an American woman and his eventual abandonment of America.
 

3.       The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon – After reading the synopsis at the back , I was flipping through the pages of this book. And I found a few illustrations which intrigued me further to buy this one. It is a murder mystery novel about a detective Christopher Boone who has Asperger’s syndrome.The murder of his neighbour’s dog sets him on a terrifying journey which eventually turns his life upside down.

4.       The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion- It is a romance fiction about a genetics professor Don Tillman who devices a  scientific questionnaire called The Wife Project to find his perfect life partner. However, his plans are set off course when he meets Rosie ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’. She manages to throw Don’s safe and ordered life into chaos.

5.       Poison study by Maria V. Snyder – I have an ebook copy of this one and I have been meaning to read it for so long. It is a fantasy novel about a young girl Yelena who is imprisoned for murder. As she waits for her execution, she is given a chance to live on the condition that she will become the Commander’s Food Taster. The story seems something right up my alley and now that I have a physical copy, I am sure this will be on top of my priority list .

6.       Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter – There was a time when I used to love reading crime/Mystery/ detective novels . But soon I found them quite repetitive and predictable. I have heard great things about this author and hence I picked two books from her. This novel is centres around two missing girls in two different decades  and the probability that these two incidents might be somehow linked.
 
 

7.       Broken by Karin Slaughter – This is the author’s tenth novel where she combines the characters from her previous detective series to solve a series of murders in a small town in Grant County. I hope it reads like a standalone as I have not read the previous novels in the series.

 8.       A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin – This is the fourth book of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE / GAME OF THRONES Series.   I bought it  solely because I was getting it at a pretty reasonable price .

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  1. Tie UpsDecember 23, 2019 at 10:28 PM

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  2. saraanshauthor (Isha Mittal)September 29, 2020 at 8:20 AM

    Nice to see your dedication for books. I mean visiting fairs for new books is something "Good to Hear":) But, ya little bit typing correction is necessary here.

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