Movie Review: Prince Caspian

“Prince Caspian” is the second installment in “The Chronicles of Narnia”, one of the “Big Three” of fantasy world (others being LoTR and Harry Potter).

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The Boy from The Stars

In memory of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, I would like to introduce you to one of the first sci-fi novels I have ever read, “Preshit” (Preshit: Marathi – A man sent, by someone or from something) by Dr. Jayant Narlikar.

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Movie review: The Spiderwick Chronicles

Based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is one more fantasy movie on the premise that the world around us is not exactly what it looks to be.
Jared Grace, his twin brother Simon and elder sister Mallory have shifted with their mother to their great-aunt’s house. Young Jared [...]

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He sees dead people…

Remember Moaning Myrtle (it hasn’t been that long)? And remember how despite her epithet “moaning”, each and every encounter with her ends up being hilariously funny? Well, “Milrose Munce and the Den of Professional Help” by Douglas Anthony Cooper is full of such Myrtles, each with differing degrees of humour and potential for humour.

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The Story Within A Story Within…

What if I tell you that one of my earliest inspirations for reading books was a movie? A movie I saw as a kid… And since the day I clued onto the fact that books can be converted into movies (and sometimes vice-versa), I have been searching for the book.
Reading a book you liked as [...]

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Of Beauty and Caring

When I saw the trailers of the movie (and then saw the book), I was expecting something like Narnia or “The Never-ending Story”, a light-hearted story with an imaginary kingdom and all. But “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson goes beyond just a kiddy book, with its message of hope and strength and beauty.

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The Monsters under the Bed

All kids know that there are goblins and other creatures under their beds, in their closets and all dark places. All our parents warned us of them too. But what would happen if the house you live is full of “night-things”? What if the woods nearby lead directly to goblin market, which is located [...]

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Fa Fe

Marathi has had its share of paperback detectives and kid detectives, but probably the most famous of all Marathi detectives is a kid, who goes by the name of “Faster Fene”. If English children had their “Secret Seven”s and “Famous Five”s (about whom we learnt later), more than one generation of Marathi kids had our [...]

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Not A “Kissing Book”

A boy and a girl grow up together on a farm. Girl hates boy, then they fall in love (cue a love song in sarson ka khet)… boy goes away “to prove himself”and is later believed dead (a sad song, not unlike “lambi judai” fits here). Step in the rich villain (though at this point [...]

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The Ugly, The Bad and The Good

Here it is, one more post containing book reviews. Or maybe not “book” reviews exactly, more like book-series reviews. I have kept the good one at the last, so if you want skip to last directly.

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