All said and done, I remain a fan of Indian fiction and if a book comes for mere Rs. 95, I tend to pick it up, even if to only satisfy my curiosity. So on one such curious May afternoon, I picked up The 3 Mistakes of My Life. I finished reading it today. If that does not say enough about the book, nothing else can.

Although nine volumes of ( Read more... )

So if you have been giving even a cursory glance to the posts that I have made in the past one month, you would agree that I have not been reading much. I game a lot these days, and when I am not gaming (or cooking!), I watch movies. All of this is simply fabulous but I do not want to become a person who does not read, or worse still a person who ( Read more... )

If a book is tiresome, does it deserve to be left in the middle?

"He spent the day shopping and making risotto in the time-honored male way, removing all the utensils from the drawers and laying them out like surgical instruments, then decanting all the ingredients into small bowls to maximize the washing up."

A snippet from Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother that made me smile wide yesterday. The husband had cooked ( Read more... )

So, do you know of Victor Frankl? I did not until I attended last week’s training. I still do not know a lot about him but I know a small something which is enough for me to think of him as a hero. While Frankl was in Nazi concentration camp, he discovered that the choice is always yours to make. When Nazi made him undergo humiliating and inhuman ( Read more... )

The book

I have no idea what took me so long to pick up “Neverwhere.” Have had an e-version of the book sitting pretty in my mailbox for over a year now. But I love reading the old fashioned way; just the way I like shopping the old fashioned way. My reading material must come with a faint papery smell. Coming back to the point, I am on page 66 ( Read more... )

In his extremely engaging autobiography of early days, Roald Dahl describes the sweets shop that he passed on his way to the school. He describes each type of sweet or candy in great detail and does so in such tremendous style that I, who lost her sweet tooth in her mother's womb, have been dreaming of licorice bootlaces and sherbet suckers since ( Read more... )

Wonder why I never thought of this before?!While traveling to work and back, I do various things to keep myself occupied and to take comfort in the fact that these 3.5 - 4 hours are not entirely wasted. I usually read books or play games. But then there are days when I do not feel like doing either of those and that is when I listen to music or if ( Read more... )

Initially, I was a little hesitant in showing off my collection as it seemed tiny compared to some of my friends' but when my mum complained that my bookshelf might just fall off the wall if I bought another book, I decided to give in. So I clicked while my hands shook with excitement.


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The truth of this post is that I have nothing interesting to say. Let me list the reasons for thee ( Read more... )