Tag: book review
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What started as a way of journaling the books I read in a calendar year has evolved into a safe ritual that I have been doing now for over a decade. Even I didn’t think I would stick to something like this for so long 🙂 Go figure! Guess that’s the thing about things one…
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Preamble: T and I have a ritual of gifting books on each others’ birthday. (a few other friends and I also share it but that’s not the point). Last year around my birthday, I was shameless in telling T that I didn’t need a book yet because of the too big unread pile piling at…
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Like a lot of things, my reading habits and reporting underwent a change this year. I have stopped looking at things from a better vs poorer lens (something that 2020 taught me). It is what it is. I tried reading a book per week post-July with the target of posting my thoughts about that book…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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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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…
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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…