Reading Tales
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I am undecided on how this makes me feel but exactly like dad, I have come to love window shopping. One of my self-care routines is to put a bunch of makeup in my Nykaa cart before removing it a week later. If it’s not Nykaa, then I’m window shopping a phone, or a dress…
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I have always been proud of the fact I’m not a genre-specific reader. I will read anything, as long as its sample on Kindle incites my interest. Since most samples are about 10% of the total page count, I have found this to be a fair way to judge books before I jump into them.
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I have never tried making reading lists. Even though I love being organized, I dislike putting too much rules on myself because they always make me restless. I end up rebelling for no good reason apart from I can. So, I have steered away from them. But, last year, I made a reading list: an…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged and known that Suchita Agarwal uses a Google sheet to organize her reading efforts. But, why and how that began is a story she would like to tell you today.
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The thing about having Sona as your reading partner is, she will share bookish news with you like, “The JCB Longlist is out.” It was only thanks to her enthusiasm that I understood why that phrase made her act like an adult in a bookstore. And only now do I appreciate how much that phrase…
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If there is one thing that the A-team of Blogchatter loves doing – whether in the middle of the day or during the Wednesday Twitter chats and sometimes later in the evening – it is to share our deepest secrets around books, authors and writing.
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Recently, my mother saw me charging my Kindle for the second time in a week and she said, “I preferred it when you were going to the library for books. At least that way, you’d take breaks in between.” It made me laugh. Because now that instant gratification has become a thing with the Kindle,…
tales of Suchita 