This book is certainly one of a kind and was released at an apt time (perhaps too apt). There’s a lot of research involved and hats off to Mary L. Trump for pulling out decades of papers and facts to present this journey of the world’s most (I’ll let you fill in the blank) president […]
Book Review: Midnight’s Children By Salman Rushdie
A Story That Takes You Back In Time And Brings Out The Relevance Of Every Ticking Second “Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.” Oh, where do I begin about this lovely, lengthy book? Honestly, I took my sweet time with this one, taking long breaks in between at times, and […]
Book Review: Toto-Chan, The Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
“You’re really a good girl, you know.” Toto-Chan, The Little Girl at the Window is a book I chanced upon during the pandemic. It’s a book that my father handed down to me and urged me to read when I find the time. And the book is a page-turner, taking you back to your childhood. […]
Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Synopsis: The narrator of the novel is Eleanor Oliphant, a 29-year-old financial clerk, who in the beginning seems very peculiar and rude. She is witty and academically gifted, yet, doesn’t know what McDonald’s or Bobby Brown is. Nor does she understand the pop culture references like Los Pollos Hermanos or Top Gear. Eleanor’s completely fine […]
Book Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
Synopsis: Connell and Marianne are two teenagers of different social standings. While Connell is handsome, popular, and school athlete, Marianne is smart, imitating, and has no friends. While Marianne is wealthy, Connell’s mother works in Marianne’s house. After a couple of encounters, they began a secret relationship, since Connell is afraid of his reputation. When […]
Book Review: Hippie By Paulo Coelho
Hippie is one of the books that take you on a remarkable journey of reading. Right from the streets of Brazil to trekking Mount Machu Pichu and all the way to Europe to Amsterdam and across the continent to finally reaching a gatewaying of choices in Istanbul. By the end of the book, I realized […]
Book Review: The Girl on the Train By Paula Hawkins
Synopsis: Rachel takes the same train every day. Aboard, her routine includes staring out of the window, and every day when the train stops at a particular signal, she looks for her favourite house. Rachel is troubled by her failures, and the house and couple living in it is the gateway for her once-perfect life. […]
Book Review: Becoming By Michelle Obama
When we’re growing up, we’re often asked the question of what we want to become. In the book Becoming by Michelle Obama, she simply strips down this question and says that there’s simply no end to becoming something. Right as a daughter, friend, partner, spouse, mother, grandmother in relationships to becoming more than our job […]
Book Review: Animal Farm By George Orwell
This George Orwell’s classic book is set around the fictional Manor farm in England. However, the Novella is a reflection of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Stalin era. Did you know that Arthur Koestler’s best-selling, Darkness at Noon, inspired Orwell to use fiction as the genre to chronicle the totalitarian regime of Stalin? Orwell, […]