It felt like a friend walked away today… Someone witty and intelligent, someone who had a way with words and wizardry to turn sentences into little works of art that I was tempted to underline, read again and note in my journal for safe-keeping, maybe, frame them at some point
Enjoyed reading ‘Hanging On’. It’s a slim, yet intriguing book. While it deals with a specialized subject of demystifying the definition of inclusive education for children with disabilities, it does so with clarity, vision, respect and wit. It also does so in a language that is simple enough for everyone
Sometimes one comes across a book that leads to sleepless nights… A book that grips and gnaws. You want to put it down and almost instantly, you pick it up again. ‘How We Disappeared’ by Jing-Jing Lee is one such book. Set in Singapore of 1942, during World War II,
This beautiful debut novel by Madhuri Vijay is riveting in its storyline. It is absorbing and has the power to hold one’s attention till the very last page. It is disturbing too, at many levels. It is narrated as a first person account in the voice of its twenty-four year
This book comes with a whiff of fresh mountain air. A very welcome change in today’s polluted Delhi scenario ! Every page of this intriguing murder mystery takes one deeper into forests and higher into mountains. This is one of the reasons that I loved reading it as much as
I bought this book because I thought the cover would make a great subject for a watercolor painting . (Still haven’t got down to doing that ) This quaint novel was the debut offering by Chinese author, Dai Sijie. It was originally written in French and later translated into English
This book, at 384 pages, is probably the heaviest I’ve held in my hands in the last few months. It’s weight is not so much physical, as it is visceral and emotional. It makes you sink deeper into your couch later into the night and may also have the power
Remember Steve McCurry’s ‘Afghan Girl’, looking over her right shoulder, remember being mesmerized by her eyes? That expression? The juxtaposition of colours? Well, the cover of this book, ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ will do the same to you. If you pick this book, you’ll find yourself turning back to
‘Dark Circles’ comes across as a simple, stark read. The language is without frills and the dialogues, deceptively mundane. The author has a story to tell and he goes about doing it with surgical precision. Even with no life-altering wisdom or deeply insightful commentary on life, this book still had
