When scrolling through Instagram or Facebook, have you ever come across this ad for the app Blinkist? It intrigued me too. I did a trial run. There was a huge load of books and it was kinda crazy to pick the one for my liking. The books I pick up depends on my current focus …
Even though I call myself a voracious reader (hang on while I try and understand the meaning of voracious.. oh.. okay.. I am back), I am skeptical to join a book club or reading clubs. There are few reasons for that. The first one being, space is always terribly crowded. And I develop cold …
Name: Birds of Prey Author: Archana Sarat Pages: 182 Blurb: You wake up, parched and famished, at the bottom of a deep well—dark and dingy with the foul smell of excreta and rotting scars and no seeming way to escape—what do you do? This is the predicament that ex-ACP Anton Pinto faces when he reluctantly …
Few things struck me when I read Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekara. In our day to day lives, we try to avoid a lot of questions. We only answer important questions like what movie are we doing to watch this weekend? Or Where are we going to hang out in the evening? In the city …
I have lent this book to a couple of my friends and I guess they haven’t finished this book yet. So this is going to be a spoiler free review. I don’t really like the word review because I feel that I am not such a voracious reader to ‘review’ a book. And I treat …
I also realized that we do it in real life too. We suppress our craziness and thing we really want to do to fit in a template. To bring the story to a form which is acceptable and enjoyable for the spectators. Most of the time the story goes unnoticed or it is used only for criticism.
Review of Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino
As most of you know I am writing a novel. To hone my skills in creative writing I am part of various groups in Facebook as well as in real world. Being hand broken for a while let me spend time in various discussions in online forum. One of such trending topics is stuffing your …
There are problems which publication industry goes through when an author dies. Particularly if his books had sold more than 80 million copies. And also when the characters had become household names. When I heard that a David Lagercrantz was writing Millenium #4, I was skeptical. I felt it would be like Forbrydelsen, the danish crime series, …
It was irresistible. Usually I am good at self-control. But last Sunday, it went for toss. The cover caught my attention and it didn’t leave me before I bought it for me. I am talking about the book The girl on the train. I had no intention of buying this book. I haven’t even heard …
