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May 9, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Although the book is considered fiction, Shaila portrays each woman “like it really is” living in a South Asian country where societal rules prevail. In one of the stories she talks about matriarchal control over the daughter-in-law where the daughter-in-law is expected to do all the work, where the daughter-in-law is not able to eat [...]
March 18, 2012 by admin | No Comments
The words inspirational and business do not usually appear in conjunction, unless to illustrate the term, oxymoron. Why is that? It’s an interesting idea that seems simple on the page, so why shouldn’t these ‘exclusive’ terms live together in the boardroom? The companies that seem to find that elusive marriage, and make it work, tend [...]
February 27, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Have you ever dreamed of traveling in England, Wales and Scotland and really getting to know the people, society and culture? Well, there is no better way to do that than to travel and stay at bed and breakfast locations throughout. It’s a way to get a true feel of it all and soak up [...]
November 18, 2011 by admin | No Comments
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada translated and wrote many commentaries on Krishna, but more specifically about what he is like in his original, personal form. They are also about he how he is doing in the eternal spiritual world. In the temporary world of manifold miseries, one will understand his transcendental activities that can attain [...]
September 24, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Making a Priest in the ‘Fifties: Memoir of a Nervous Seminarian by James M. O’Brien, PhD iUniverse (2006) ISBN 9780595408535 Reviewed by William E. Cooper for Reader Views (11/06) Although a unique subject, this really is a great book to read. As a life-long Catholic, and one who actually aspired to the priesthood in my [...]
August 19, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Rupa Bajwa’s “The Sari Shop” set in the little city of Amritsar captures evocatively, the social atmosphere of small-town India. Her narrative encapsulates the spirit of the sari-shop environment with its spirited, intimate, interaction between shop personnel and regular patrons. In the background, the rustling silk, soft cotton and shiny synthetic saris reach out to [...]
July 24, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Broken Greek: A Language to Belong by Adrianne Kalfopoulou Plain View Press (2006) ISBN 9781891386565 Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (8/06) “Broken Greek” is truly an inside view of the real Greece. As both an ‘outsider’ and ‘one of them’, author Adrianne Kalfopoulou gives a unique look at Greece and all of its [...]
June 30, 2011 by admin | No Comments
At the end of the seventies Jonathan Raban wandered across the Middle East. Arabia was the book he wrote after impressionistic visits to Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan and, briefly, Lebanon. Paradoxically, the book starts and finishes in London, because it was there that questions about Arab identity and culture arose in [...]
June 25, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger won the Booker Prize and was notable for its intriguing form. I thought it would be a hard act to follow. It would need a great writer to be able to make a repeat match of both originality and style with engaging content. So on beginning Between The Assassinations I was [...]
June 23, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Rules of the Game: Global Business Protocol By Nan Leaptrott 368 pages, $27.95 ISBN-13: 978-0538854559 Non-fiction Review by Steven King, MBA, MEd Nan Leaptrott, President of Global Business Consultants, has written a masterpiece in Rules of the Game: Global Business Protocol. Not only does this compendium of excellent research seek to provide appropriate protocol and [...]
June 12, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Riva is at that cross-roads of life again 15 years back, choosing between Aman and Ben. Meeting up with Aman now brought the incredible possibility of a fantastic flight from the dull grind that her married life had become. Ben stood for Riva’s more practical side, where she played important roles of wife, daughter, sister, [...]
April 8, 2011 by admin | No Comments
A men’s magazine can span a variety of different subjects and be really quite different from women’s magazines. Men’s magazines represent and talk about all things masculine. They are definitely very popular and widely read all over the world for their specialized subjects, varying information or subjects, interesting and captivating articles and pictures and ease [...]
January 25, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Broken Greek: A Language to Belong by Adrianne Kalfopoulou Plain View Press (2006) ISBN 9781891386565 Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (8/06) “Broken Greek” is truly an inside view of the real Greece. As both an ‘outsider’ and ‘one of them’, author Adrianne Kalfopoulou gives a unique look at Greece and all of its [...]
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