Tag: Favorite Books

Hi Readers! After a long time, I read a book that I really loved. When I started reading Welcome to The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, I knew it was a book about books. I knew it would be a cozy read. I had read few such books, and in most cases,...

Hi Readers! Welcome to the first of the three year-end review posts of 2023! We begin with books, of course. My reading in 2023 was quite erratic because I had set no reading goal. I thought doing that would give me the freedom to read whatever I wanted; be...

Hi Readers! Last week I officially went into my anxious I-have-got-to-read 80 books this year frenzy. This set me on a path to read short books. I don’t typically enjoy them and few of them have also shoved me in the reading slump in the past, almost like a...

Hi Readers! Jhumpa Lahiri is one of those authors whose books when I start reviewing, I can’t quite stop. There are a multitude of themes, some very obvious but some really subtle. There might not always be a memorable character or a thrilling plot, but there are always silences....

Hi Readers! In August, I am participating in two reading challenges. There’s the Women in Translation Month for which I already read I Who Have Never Know Men by Jacqueline Harpman. And now for Discovering India Readathon hosted by Padmaja (thebookishtales) and Avani (thequirkyblubookshelf), I have read That Long...

Hi Readers! When I read The Eighth Life in January this year, I was flummoxed. I read a lot, but this book was just something else entirely. It is among the best books I have ever read. It has such multitude of characters each of whom you know as...

Hi Readers! June has been a slow month for me reading-wise. But, I did finish two books this weekend. I will write the review of The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley soon, but I knew I had to write the review of South of the Border, West of the...

Hi Readers! I usually don’t get myself too invested in the Booker Prize or International Booker Prize. Something about those books just don’t call out to me. It’s either the lack of a plot or too technical literary writing or simply because of my prejudice. But, all of that...

Hi Readers! I was completely subsumed in the Stormlight Archive world for the majority of this month. I read the third book in the series, Oathbringer. This was the main reason for delay in all the book reviews. But, I have now caught up with reviews of almost all...

Hi Readers! I finally read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow! I had wanted to read it for a few months but ironically I kept saying tomorrow to the book too. But now that I finally read it, I loved it! I will probably read Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘The Storied Life...