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Malorie Blackman is a British novelist. Her books, rather unfortunately, are not available in India. I have however had the pleasure of reading the first book of her trilogy--Noughts and Crosses during my stay in England. Few of my friends here in India have read this book as well, thanks to the team from Boxgrove, who presented it to our school library.
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The trilogy is a very well presented image of the struggle of Sephy and Callum, belonging to different races. Callum, a white and Sephy, a black. The set up of the book is such that here, the blacks reign supreme while the whites are sentenced to a dreadful life of slavery.

My heart goes out to Callum and Sephy and their struggle to remain together. The story ends on a tragic note, and reminds me of something like a modern day "Romeo-Juliet" We only wish it was available in India and I could read the other 3 parts...

1. Noughts and Crosses 2. Knife Edge 3. Checkmate

@VANIKA Posted Mar 19, 2008 7:59 pm

re: MALORIE BLACKMAN I totally agree with you avanika, “Malorie Blackman” is a superb novelist. I had the pleasure of reading “noughts and crosses”. It’s a wonderful book. Malorie Blackman has expressed her views on the discrimination of people on the basis of skin color in a beautiful way. The struggle of Sephy and Callum,belonging to different races has been depressing. I wish to read the other two parts and hope that they will be available in India soon. Posted Mar 19, 2008 8:55 pm
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Amitav Ghosh is a wonderful writer. I have read "HUNGRY TIDE". It's a fantastic book.

This is the first book i read of Amitava Ghosh.The one thing about this book that has captivated me most is the language. Such beautiful language is hard to come across nowadays in contemporary novels. Ghosh excels in this field,no doubt.

The story is about a cetologist Piyali Roy & her research in the Sunderbans. The other important characters are Kanai Dutt, a translator ,based in Delhi,Nilima Roy his aunt & Fokir, a fisherman who helps in Piyali’s expedition.

It is a story about how the lives of all these characters get mixed in the beautiful forests of the Sunderbans. Their individual desperations come to the fore on the ganga plains.

The highlight of the story is its simplicity & the genius of the writer to potray every incident with extraordinary charm. All in all its a book that takes you right in the heart of Sunderban & lets you observe its beauty through your own eyes. Posted Mar 25, 2008 10:26 pm

I read a book called: Bean Bag Buddies. It's a book that teaches you how to make cool bean bags.Tthere are many cool shapes of bean bags you can make. Thanks, Reem I really like your MESSAGE.
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I have chosen the novelist Matthew Reilly. He is an Australian thriller/action writer. I love his character Shane Schofield codename “Scarecrow”. His books are action packed and they have a lot of details. For example in Area 7 he must have had to do a lot of research for he wrote about the American armed forces and about American politics, including even the smallest detail. I never wanted to leave the book in the middle because with every turning of the page, there was something new around the corner. His book Scarecrow is a very fast moving book and the story is just amazing.

[|hari98] [|send hari98 a message] Member since Dec 7, 2007 8:41 pm 0 page edits, 2 message posts [|view member profile] Nicholas is an energetic French schoolboy who, wherever he goes, is in trouble. Now let me introduce his friends to you: Alec who is fond of eating and is Nicholas' best friend, Geoffrey who is very rich and likes to come in different outfits to school, Cuthbert who is top of the class, teacher's pet and always cries (he is not actually Nicholas' friend, just introducing him), Eddie who is very strong and likes to punch others on the nose and finally Rufus who likes to act like an idiot and is a policeman's son. Join Nicholas and his gang as they get caught up in a series of seriously hilarious adventures. (Nicholas and Nicholas Again is a part of a series).
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[|hari98] [|send hari98 a message] Member since Dec 7, 2007 8:41 pm 0 page edits, 2 message posts [|view member profile] Golden and Grey is a book that has every type of book inside it. Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery etc. It’s about a boy called Tom Golden and a ghost named Grey Arthur. At the first, Tom is a lonely boy who gets bubblegum in his hair, spit wads on his clothes etc. at his first day in a new town. But then Grey Arthur decides to become Tom's Invisible Friend, not minding the fact that Tom can't see him .He protects Tom from bullies and the other bad kids in town. But one day when Arthur was off-guard a group of bullies decided to pick on Tom. Tom runs away from them, but unfortunately he crashes into a car. When Tom woke up in his bedroom he saw a silvery, see-through person in front of him. Arthur then confesses he's a ghost and to prove it Tom took a cactus from his shelf and threw it at Arthur and it passed through him. From that day Arthur helps Tom out and in the end, helps him to escape from a bad guy with the help of Arthur's friends and they lived happily ever after.(Sorry for the fairy-tale ending). [|16rim] [|send 16rim a message] Member since Dec 3, 2007 3:40 am 0 page edits, 9 message posts [|view member profile] I read a book called three tales it talks about Binjamen and his sister. They hate each other. [|16rim] [|send 16rim a message] Member since Dec 3, 2007 3:40 am 0 page edits, 9 message posts [|view member profile] Hi I read a book called red pizzas for a blue count it talks about a vampire called Snowbella. It’s Geronimo and Bingamen and they went to a place filled with vampires
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