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  Very recently, I have posted about an impending book release by an author whose last book I read earlier this year. Well, as luck would have it, here is another author I read earlier this year and now his next book is ready for release. I read the ' Shadow Throne ' by Aroon Raman about a year ago ( Read my review here ) and now the author comes out with his next. I had liked Shadow Throne and the blurb for this next book also sounds interesting. The Treasure of Kafur by Aroon Raman is planned for release next month around December 15th ... and I just hope I get it in time to review it before the end of the year :)   The book cover has been released and here it is for you ... You can of course visit the author's website or his FB page  

So here we go … the interview with 'Asura' author Anand Neelkantan  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Anand, Before we begin the interview, let me tell you something. I am not (yet) a fan of your writing. I read Asura in February this year and frankly, I did not like it one bit. I had expected the story be from the perspective of Ravana where Ravana would be glorified and his good as well as bad side be given from his perspective. What came out was Ravana being portrayed as a Stupid Guy with Big Dreams and able men around him who helped him become an Emperor. I mean literally, he has been portrayed as stupid. The book was overall a painfully slow and torturous read ... I kept reading till the end hoping it would get better in the end. The storyline made no sense at times. Ravana was not shown as a strong character ... a promiscuous man with children from his wife, another lady and even a servant ... crazy! At some po...

Last Monday, I wrote a blog post about the Author of Ravana's story, Anand Neelkantan, now coming out with Duryodhana's story. I had also posted the cover page image of the new book titled "AJAYA – Epic of the Kaurava Clan". Today, I am also sharing ' preview chapter ' of the book … Take it from me … they are indeed interesting (even though we know the Mahabharata). What next, you ask me ? Let's not to forget about the author interview The interview of Anand Neelkantan will be up on this blog in a couple of days.

Last month, I completed a collection of Philip K Dick stories and rather than picking up another one of his, I picked up Asimov this month. Started a collection of 17 short stories by Asimov titled "Earth is Room Enough" and ended up reading half. I had to struggle with myself to not complete the other half within the month itself. This is the first time I am reading Asimov short stories (consciously. I might have read an Asimov short story randomly or as part of some collection or magazine). The stories have a certain element of intellectual debate or paradox in them. This month was a busy month on work front and for almost a week, I practically did not read anything much (which is like 25% of the time of a month). This took a toll on my reading but I still managed to read 3 novels   I got a short story collection to review and along with the Asimov stories that I read and the ones from Alfred Hitchcock series together put together a nice total of 28 for the mont...