Memoirs of a Geisha

I recently picked up Memoirs of a Geisha from a friend’s place, a rather ‘old’ book by now, I know. The novel is a brilliantly written first-person account of the life of a giesha, Nitta Sayuri or Chiyo, written by a guy(Arthur Golden) from Tennessee, USA of all places.
The book was a fascinating [...]

Atonement

I admit to being somewhat easily influenced by the media, so the Oscar buzz surrounding the movie based on this book drove me to see what the hype was all about. The train and bus commute involved in my previous job helped me go through the book asap, which is how I read, for some [...]