Pre script: I picked up this book from fellow book lover and voracious reader Tanvi’s IG book reviews. I love a compelling, atmospheric, well-written fiction book. Especially when the writer has found her unique voice. I have never been a fan of Liz Gilbert’s non-fiction books. Have I read them? – Yes. Did I enjoy them? – Meh. I loved her latest (from 2019) book City of Girls. Did I say it’s well written and well-told? It doesn’t lose its…
Because rituals are a safe space here I go again! Sharing the books I read through the latter half of 2019. Not as many as I would have liked. Books from 1st half of 2019 are listed here. Educated by Tara Westover – This is one of the top 2019 reads for me. I loved reading Tara’s story. It moved me and made me hopeful. More here. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag – What a tasty, delightful and dark story!…
I read the beautiful debut novel The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay last weekend and tried penning down the stir of emotions it caused. Sometimes all we remain to someone’s experience of life is an outsider. Beyond family, friends and belonging in a way we are all outsiders to the joy, pain, suffering of others. Who are these others? People related to us in some way or mere people who have no connection to us whatsoever? When life propels us…
I finished reading the remarkable Educated by Tara Westover a couple of days ago and can’t seem to get Tara’s story out of my head. So here are few thoughts I am jotting down (might add more later). I had never read a story about a poor (financially), real, white, Christian person before this. So reading this story was an eye-opener. The way Tara talks about how having sufficient money through education grants during her college days, solved most problems…
Tah-dah! This is exciting. On an otherwise unbearably rainy weekend. (Apart from the drenched, rain-soaked long run I could log today). Anywho, 2019 has been a bit positive when it comes to reading and books. So doing my half-yearly round up of the books I have read so far. Because writing about books you read isn’t as great as reading them. But rituals are rituals. So here we go! People in the trees by Hanya Yanagihara – T gifted me…
Continuation from here. Prescript – as an afterthought I hardly bought any new books this year and read from the 2017 baggage/pileup pictured here. I am a little relieved to have cleared some of that load in 2018 😀 Known and strange things by Teju Cole – KT gifted me this book for my 2017 birthday. It only took me less than a year to get to it! I follow the eccentric Teju Cole on Twitter (now he is on…
Well, I have submitted to the fact that 2018 has not been a great reading year going by my reading cadence. The silver lining, whatever little I read I thoroughly enjoyed. As time measurement in human years goes, 2018 is about to end, so I am nursing my OCD by writing about the books read and enjoyed in the latter half of this year. Without further ado: All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr – A book with…