August 1, 2021
Lifestyle, Passion & Unity
July 17, 2016
By the time this article goes to print, your child will probably uttered the following statement a dozen times by now…”I’m bored. There’s nothing to do.” Our children look forward to summer vacation as early as June 1st. But, by July 1st, they miss everything about school. Well almost everything. They certainly don’t miss the…
October 17, 2015
‘Life of Pi’ is a fantasy adventure novel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, is a Tamil boy from Pondicherry. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
January 17, 2016
A House for Mr. Biswas is a story inspired by Naipaul's father, Mohun Biswas. Mr. Mohun Biswas fought against everything to achieve independence or something he can call his own. Yet, every time he bumps into another calamity of sorts. But it isn’t until that he is married into the Tulsi family on whom he…
January 17, 2016
Hillary Mantel writes a shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, illness, family, ghosts and haunting. In ‘Giving up the Ghost’, she talks about a persistent pain that led to drugs and psychiatry which ended in an irrevocable surgery.
January 17, 2016
Bad Kitty never set out to be bad but cannot seem to help getting into trouble. Trouble just seems to find it’s way to her. Yet, children around the world love her. This picture book is a good beginning to introducing your little ones to chapter books.
October 17, 2015
‘Little Women’ is an account of the troubles and happy times of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.
October 17, 2015
A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: “I’ll love you forever. I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living. My baby you’ll be.” Robert Munch’s book ‘Love You Forever’ lovingly confirms the love of parent to child and the cycle that continues.
October 17, 2015
‘A Piece of Cake’ is a heart-wrenching memoir about overcoming the death of a parent, rape, childhood abuse, prostitution, hustling, alcoholism, drug addiction, miscarriage, gang banging, near death injuries, drug dealing, and homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before her twentieth birthday.