Reading Tales
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I love how the AtoZ forces me to go through a dictionary for fun; and the many words that the most difficult to choose for alphabets i.e. X, Y and Z actually have. I chose yellow for this post because of the Coldplay song and the way the lyrics so beautifully capture my love for…
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I’m usually wary of reading books that Bookstagram swears by – or a book that has won too many literary awards. I can never figure out why it’s famous in the case of the former, and the latter are usually pretentious, obnoxious and many times unreadable. But what pushed me into picking up this book…
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When I was little, I had two books that were the size of a pocket square: Black Beauty and Pride and Prejudice. They were my pride and joy because of their size. They weren’t the same size as mom’s books and neither were they weirdly big like my sister’s children’s books. They were a unique…
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As always, my not reviews can get spoilery. You have been warned. This book got added to my TBR because of Ben Barnes. Who is he? Well, according to a meme I saw, he is like the boyfriend of the 90s kid because of his role as Prince Caspian. I mean, the meme is not…
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Finding a book to talk about for the final post on my reading tales [and My Friend Alexa] has been hard. I contemplated between choosing Macbeth and Harry Potter but the problem with both those choices was there isn’t just a memory attached to these books. There’s an entire yarn, tangled, sometimes with each other…
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Identity as a concept fascinates me. I didn’t like the thought that someone else could inform the way I lead my life. I liked the thought that I alone am responsible for my thoughts and actions. It has taken me a while to accept that my interactions with the world have and will continue to…
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There was a time in my 20s – ha makes me sound like it was decades ago when it was only…er…one decade ago – when friends and I went crazy over Hindu mythologies. It happened because of Palace of Illusions and continued because of Devdutt Pattanaik’s Jaya and Sita. There was also the horrible first…
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