Reading Tales

  • Not a book review: The Vegetarian

    Hello. This is a bit of a spoilerish review. If you plan to read the book, this may cloud the way you read it. If you don’t plan to read the book but are curious why the internet has such mixed reviews of it, read on!

    Read more →

  • Rewind: a bookish round-up of books read in 2024

    Hello, hello. It’s December which means I can finally talk about the books I have read this year (50) and brag about them. As always, I did not want to do a usual round-up so I asked my trusty pal ChatGPT for some prompts.

    Read more →

  • Not a book review: Heartstrings and Harmonies

    I met Manali in Bombay for a Blogchatter meetup this year and she was kind enough to give me her latest book Heartstrings and Harmonies. I knew the book combined fiction, love stories and of course music. But reading them, especially the lyrics and trying to figure out which song they were from, was an…

    Read more →

  • Some non serious ways to find time for reading

    I was telling my friends some time back that if given a choice, I would go back to a flip phone, with no internet, no WhatsApp or social media and only calls. The small screen adds almost nothing to my life and I would happily let go of it. They laughed and cheered me for…

    Read more →

  • Not a book review: Whispers, lies and secrets

    Winning blog hops is a novelty for me – it is like a hand has reached from outside of me, giving me that much needed validation for my writing and blogging. Thanks to Sukaina and Manali, I have now won 3 of their blog hops and 5 books!

    Read more →

  • Not a book review: Truck de India

    First a confession: the epiphany I had around nonfiction books at the beginning of the year has actually paid off. The realization that I was judging this entire genre on the basis of popular books that didn’t speak to me was stupid. Since then, I have read 5 nonfiction books in the past 7 months…

    Read more →

  • Reading tales: The Way of Kings

    If there is one thing I love about reading fantasy series, it is how immersive an experience it can be. Not only do you follow the same set of characters over three, four, seven, books, but you also get to travel through the land the fantastical tale lives in.

    Read more →