Goa- A new revelation. All credits to this dain...
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Goa- A new revelation. All credits to this dainty place- Literati Bookshop Café  The ceiling-high bookshelves I was in Goa last month with a family friend of ours. Just like any tourist or person who wants to visit Goa, I was excited about the blue beaches, dipping sunsets at the horizons, the sand caressing my feet and most of all the Beer. Well, let’s be honest, who can ignore a good pint of beer watching the waves while your child for once has his attention drifted from you, busy with sand trying to make castles. Mumma bliss, I call it. And so for the first two days, it was about the ..read more
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Mahfouz's words are surreal. The Quarter, a windo...
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Mahfouz's words are surreal. The Quarter, a window to his work asking you to explore more- Book Review and Musings. The Quarter by Naguib Mahfouz comprises stories from the quarter understood as a small section or community of people. These stories have a pattern, precisely they have a similarity. They trail off like dialogues in a conversation when one’s mind goes numb, or they don’t know what’s to be said next etcetera. You never come to know their conclusions, aftermath or end; like conversations left midway. I personally do not like such situations, they leave me more anxious and dubiou ..read more
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Such a fun age by Kiley Reid is a quick and "foo...
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Such a fun age by Kiley Reid is a quick and "food for thought" book, channeling your inner self to question privileges- Book review. My interest in the book was sparked when @reesesbookclub chose it as their book of the month and I have to admit that it is one of those engaging books that perplex you. The processing of ideas and the formation of viewpoints in the reader’s mind are rapid when it should actually be reflective. The rapidness comes from smooth writing and a moving plot. Kiley Reid’s writing is clever. Emira Tucker is A twenty-five year old black babysitter with no real jo ..read more
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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck- a slim book captu...
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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck- a slim book capturing the ambiance and human nature perfectly. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck is said to be his ode to California, the state he spent a memorable amount of time in. And his nostalgia brims in the first few pages where he describes Cannery row, an atmospheric one at that. With his appeasing words he makes it so easy for the reader to visualise this street lined with sardines canneries, the characters and their state of mind; The book takes us to Cannery Row, a small and close-knit community like place where some fellas(Mack and others) pla ..read more
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The collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang-...
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The collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang- A very insightful attempt to educate us about a terrifying state a mind can reach and thrive in. The collected Schizophrenias is a collection of personal essays holding in its depth immense information about mental traumas, mental health in general and laying bare everything about Schizophrenia. It talks about how it affects the victim and the people around them. The kind of life they lead and the gruesome accidents that happen. It can sometimes feel like living in delusions and illusions, very easily losing track of what is real. The though ..read more
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Cost of Living, the second part memoir with a fem...
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Cost of Living, the second part memoir with a feminist voice and piercing words. Deborah levy, up close and personal. Cost of Living by Deborah Levy is the second in her memoir part series after the blue book- Things I do not want to know, which by the way is phenomenal. While the blue focussed a lot on her earlier part of life and struggles, as a child and further dealing with writing struggles accompanied by low mental health the yellow book is a compilation of personal essays which talk of her later life- after marriage, her separation, kids and her thoughts as a writer working in a she ..read more
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Book review of a memoir I count as an important ...
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Book review of a memoir I count as an important read-  Becoming by Michelle Obama Becoming by Michelle Obama is a memoir which holds in its pages her life as a competitive child, a Princeton and Harvard graduate, as a mother, wife and the First Lady (FLOTUS). It is interesting to know about the couple’s journey into politics coming from a fairly simple non-political family background. Becoming is a compilation of Michelle Obama’s thoughts. Hers and only hers. It is about her struggles, vulnerability and her coming to terms with a new life. I have always liked Michelle Obama, since years no ..read more
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Golden Child by Claire Adams, a family saga you w...
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Golden Child by Claire Adams, a family saga you would like to see as a movie adaptation so the loopholes can be rectified. If defined succinctly can be called as atmospheric, fragmented and emotional. When I call it atmospheric I mean every scene is like a reel running in the screen of your mind. The author with her writing skills makes it easy for us to capture the emotions, thoughts and ambience of a situation and characters really well. The story is set in Trinidad. It is about Clyde and his family with two sons- Peter and Paul. They are twins but as different as two magnetic poles. Whi ..read more
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Book review of The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is the one lovers of The Handmaid’s tale (THT)were waiting for with high anticipation. The high adrenaline rush of seeing Gilead once again in its darkest form and meeting Offred because getting in her mind is like framing thoughts of your own. Did it deliver for its fans?It left us with a broken heart, making the wait for it disputable. The Testaments has been called the sequel of its predecessor but looking upon closely it reflects two sides-prequel and sequel.The three narratives in the book bring fo ..read more
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Book review of Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi ...
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Book review of Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup I finished reading this book a few weeks back but struggled to articulate a review. How do you define a book which is so poetic in itself? I was in dire need of words that would explain this book perfectly well. But, perfection is a myth. No? Every word that I put across felt uncertain and unjustifiable to the beauty this book brings with itself. This is one to challenge your imagination, stretch it out and satisfy you with a prose beatific, to say the least. We go about exploring this book, reading stories through the geographical ..read more
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