Category: books
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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…
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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…
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Book Love 2016 here!I started 2017 with no particular books-plan but with a renewed library subscription. I also bought a lot of books in 2017. One each month. Few for myself. Few as gifts for others. Also bartered and loaned books. I ended up reading 35 books! Considering I have a day job I am…
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And the last post summarizing all the individual books I read through 2017. Another book love post will follow soon.My daughter’s mum by Natasha Badhwar: I <3 Natasha Badhwar. To say that I had read this book before I even read this book, would be accurate. This is a compilation of Natasha’s weekly Mint column…
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The end of the year is here! And I cannot wait to indulge in writing about books I read in the latter half of 2017. Earlier 2017 books here and here.Fantastic Beasts and where to find them by J.K. Rowling: Finally picked this book by JKR. I love the Harry Potter universe and I could live…
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I have always thought good doctors are not humans. I mean they are these weird, different, responsible (I know gross generalization) species who do what they do because they have issues. Good issues like they want to help, comfort people and humanity. And bad issues like they don’t want a normal life and don’t mind…
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When I read really good fiction like Homegoing, I feel everything is right with the world (if it makes any sense?). I feel connected and rooted. Homegoing is one of those books, which not only holds your finger and walks you through history, personal history but also moves you by its sheer scope and beauty.…
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Part 1 of the mid-year books round-up here. The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes – Fabulous! Also how well do the British write! The book is filled with amazing thought provoking material. Also works as a thriller, as you are trying to solve a suicide. Old age, memories are themes dear to my…
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This year I have decided to do mid-year and end of year books posts. Because its criminal (I know! I know!) to do just one post in a year and not write about each and every book. Without further ado, here’s a chronological list. Will divide it into 2 parts for brevity. Amsterdam by Ian…
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I read and enjoyed and also got (un)necessarily involved in really good fiction, thanks to the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante. For beginners its a 4 book series, traverses the friendship and story of 2 girls growing up in Naples Italy from 1960s to early 2000s. (I had decided to do a 1/2 yearly…