March 2025 Recap!
Hi Readers! Birthday month is finally over, but it was fabulous (mostly!) I took a nice short break at the beginning of the month to be with my friends and de-stress. I also got to live alone for about a week, so yay independent woman! I ate delicious food....
February 2025 Recap!
Hi Readers! How was your February? The shortest month of the year really made me feel its every single day quite laboriously. In a nutshell, I read very little. The two books which I read this month were across two days. Otherwise, I have been reading The One Hundred...
Healing Japanese Fiction Book Recommendation: The Lantern of Lost Memories
Hi Readers! I finally read a book this month! “A reader doesn’t find a book. The book finds the reader.” While I had heard this from so many people, it always sounded too surreal to believe. These last two months have been hell work-wise. There are so many instances...
The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao Book Review!
Hi Readers! They say don’t judge a book by its cover. Well, I have to say don’t judge a book by its award. I have been burnt too many times for reading award winning books only to dislike them or have an utterly awful reading experience. There’s no point...
Intermezzo: Sally Rooney’s Best Novel Yet!
Hi Readers! Here’s the first book review of 2025! I have read Sally Rooney’s books before, and have never liked them. I thought Normal People was far too removed from reality and also quite pretentious. I DNFed both Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You? because the...
Top 6 Lessons of 2024 – Year in Review (Part 4)
Hi Readers! I am honestly guilty of loving to review the year more than living it. Every year we all feel the same way. How are we already celebrating a new year? How have these 12 months gone by so fast? What did I even do? What didn’t I...
Top 10 Posts of 2024 – Year in Review (Part 3)
Hi Readers! Welcome to the third post of the 2024 Year in Review Series! This one’s all your doing. You choose to rely on my judgement when it comes to what to read next. You choose to find book recommendations here. You choose to find a way to better...
Top 10 TV Shows & Top 15 Movies of 2024 – Year in Review (Part 2)
Hi Watchers! You all know I love stories, be it in the form of books or movies or TV shows or any other media. It used to feel like an escape, but now it feels like reflection. There are always characters with whom I’m able to bond because of...
Top 8 Books of 2024 – Year in Review (Part 1)
Welcome to the 2024 Year in Review series!!! For those who have been with Mindscape in Words long enough, would know that every year I share a few posts in a series called ‘Year in Review’. And, for those who started following me recently, you are in for a treat...
December 2024 Wrapup!
Hi Readers! Here we are at the end of the year already! December has been the best month, full of family, reflections, and a good kind of busy to it. Anyway, all of this will be more in the 2024 Year in Review posts! As of this month, I...