Started out with my Proust journey earlier this month. Been really trying to take it slow, savour it and enjoy all the nuances. Marcel Proust is a new literary destination, and it is a challenge for me to review his mind’s work. Those densely packed paragraphs, such food-for-thought word structure, the goosebumps from all that sensory detail, the profound way he allows us to bear … Continue reading Review | Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Thanks to @Rupsa this book had my complete attention every spare minute of the last few weeks. I was absorbed till the very last page of this historical epic. A family saga that starts with the four daughters of a Georgian chocolatier, and the recipe of the hot chocolate plays a significant role in the book. This book has seven women in the story who … Continue reading Review | Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili

#QOTD – What is your haathor kala / haath ki kala / an art of your hand? When I was younger, my mother would always tell me to learn something creative like drawing or stitching or crochet, basically have an art of my hand. And I would never have interest in any of those things. Now, as a grown up, I learnt drawing and illustration … Continue reading Review | Dopehri by Pankaj Kapur

When someone writes a book, we are reading the sum total of that person’s knowledge, experiences, dreams, and imaginations. While everyone has all the above, only a writer is expressing all of it in words. And Haruki Murakami’s world is beautiful, full of books, music, the mystical, the metaphysical, sexually charged, and even magical. Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear … Continue reading Kafka On The Shore : Haruki Murakami

#QOTD – Where are you from? This question has always baffled me. “I’ve never stayed still, I’ve always been moving, that’s all I’ve ever been doing. Always waiting either to get somewhere or to come back. Or to escape.” Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri I am from Assam, but I have never lived there. I was born in Delhi. With Dad’s transferrable job, we moved to Bangladesh … Continue reading Review | Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

#QOTD – Which book have you read based on bookstagram recommendations? And did you like it? Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag is one of the shortest book I have read this year, but it packs such a punch. The very title of the book gives the feeling of being in a tangled mess. My Instagram feed was flooded with this book’s reviews. So finally I … Continue reading Review | Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag

Hola wormies! Back when I was a teenager, I had a huge acne problem! And I was overweight ( I still am though!) My teenage years went struggling with this appearance issue I had! I was living with a huge inferiority complex in my mind! I had the best of friends and family always supporting me, and yet I was tormented with my pimpled skin … Continue reading Review | The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo