A bookstore that believes in giving the booklover an experience and not merely enabling a transaction. A bookstore set up more than twenty years ago, which became a pit stop for many a book lover. Those were the days when bookstores catered to the safe and time tested needs of the regular book lovers. There wasn’t anyone who considered keeping books on unusual and unconventional topics like mind-body and spirit as there wasn’t a great demand for them. Nonetheless, some …
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I read with a passion and have long list of ’ To be read’, ’ and Already read’ books. Books and I go together and I can never imagine being without a book. I keep signing up for book reading challenges and am mostly able to live up to them.
This is a space where I am going to be reviewing books that I have read and may have loved, liked or even hated.
But yes these are going to be strictly my views, ratings and recommendations.
So read on….
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The Berlin Girl is a book with flavours of history, thrill and love all thrown in to make it a compelling read. It is a riveting account of life in Berlin just before WW II. It keeps you on edge all the time, leaving you with no choice but to keep turning the pages. The best part is that you pretty much know what’s going to happen, but you still can’t stop reading. The story is about Georgie, a fledgling …
Though technology in the form of ebooks, audiobooks is trying to replace the brick and mortar book stores, I am still an old school person when it comes to books. I love to hold a book when I read it. The touch and feel and the smell as you turn the pages are things that I still care for. Though I have a kindle, have tried audiobooks as well, a physical book is a joy that I am not prepared …
Book – The Woman Who Stood Defiant – Ruttie Jinnah Author – Saad S. Khan with Sara S. Khan Release date – January 2021 Genre – Biography Reading this book has reinforced a particular feeling in me. The feeling is that history is all about what the powers that be or people with vested interests want us to know and remember. Most of the times, it is not true in several respects, but we believe it as we don’t know …
Book- The Last Queen Author- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Release date -2021 Genre- Historical Fiction The unsung heroines of Indian history are how I would like to describe many of the women who though an integral part of who we are, have been forgotten and buried in history pages. And I love the way some of our modern writers like Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Kavita Kane, to name a few, have taken it upon themselves to pull these women out of …
Book – Off the Beaten Track Author – Saeeda Bano Translated by – Shahana Raza Release date – November 2020 Genre – Memoir The book, as the name suggests, is a memoir. It is about the life of a woman who lived in the early to mid-twentieth century India. Originally written in Urdu by the protagonist, Saeeda Bano, who is also the narrator, the book relates the story of her life, the trials and tribulations she had to face during her …
Book – Breaking Through Author – Isher Judge Ahluwalia Release date – 20 August 2020 Genre – Memoir A book that I picked up on the recommendation of the owner of my favourite book store and I am so glad I did that. The book, a crisply told tale of the life of an ambitious and driven woman talks about how courage, determination and consistent hard work can lead a person to success and fame. It reinforces the fact that …
Book – The Radiance of a Thousand Splendid Suns Author – Manreet Sodhi Someshwar Release date- 25 June 2019 Genre – A literary thriller A book which on the surface seems to be about a daughter’s determination to complete her dead father’s unfinished book is much more than that. Yes, Niki, the daughter leaves no stone unturned to fulfil her father’s wish, but the book is more than a description of just that. It draws the reader’s attention to various …
Book – Why People Give: Interpreting Altruism Authors – Ratna Vira, Suahasini Vira Release Date – 1st July 2019 Genre – Social Science Reading has always been one of my passions, but I had always been partial towards fiction. The thought of venturing into the non-fiction genre made me feel that I would be getting into a dull and dry space. So it was always a big no, no for me. But then a few years ago, my perspective started changing …
Book BecomingAuthor Michelle ObamaRelease date 13th November 2018Genre Memoir and Autobiography A book about the Becoming of a woman and her life, her relationships. Though there have been other similar books, to my mind, this stands out for several reasons. The most significant one is that it portrays the rise of a woman from a background that was not privileged. In fact, it was an extremely modest one. And added to that was her struggle as a black woman whether …