Recursion gives Déjà vu a new meaning
Book Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
This book is unlike any other I have read and at the outset, I should let you know that it's not one of those novels you’d want to grab on a vacation. The simplicity of the title and cover is deceiving. Nonetheless, both are very clever, much like the tone the author wants to set.... Continue Reading →
Things about reading Sapiens that impacted me the most
Sapiens wasn't a book I could binge read, because every time I read a chapter or two, it made me go into a tizzy and down a rabbit hole of wanting to be a vegetarian, an atheist and even an anti-consumerist.
Book Review: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying; by Marie Kondo
Not too long ago, we moved out of our apartment into a different one. This was my chance to declutter and as soon as I knew we had a month to move, I picked up the bestselling book- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying https://read.amazon.in/kp/card?asin=B00I0C46BO&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_C7GSBbKFNEY0S&tag=shais17-21 A large part of my adult life has been about overflowing cupboards-... Continue Reading →
Happy #BookLoversDay
Book-lover is such a simple term, so boring. I'd rather be called a bookworm or even a savant. Here are 10 reasons that you, a bibliophile, can be categorised as a book-lover: For you,window shopping for books can be done three ways- the bookstore window, Amazon's window, and looking through the car window for the... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express (Poirot)
I moved along and that continued through each chapter with a hunch that the character being written about here is the murderer. And then that hunch continued through the rest of the chapters for all thirteen suspects.
Book Review: The Girl on the Train
In January last year I bought the eBook for the Gone Girl. To begin with, its a story of a couple who completes 5 years of their marriage. At first they seemed 'normal'. As I flipped page after page, they start getting creepier. To make things worse, I was reading the book on our 5th wedding anniversary. I... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Wild: From Lost to Found on the PCT
Last evening I finished reading this book called Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. The author is a woman named CherylStrayed. The idea of where the surname came about was interestingly revealed in the book. Like every other ‘woman-driven’ book I felt like I understood the author. So much, that yet again... Continue Reading →