• Not a book review: A Gentleman in Moscow

    Do you ever just start a book because from the looks of it, you know it’ll be a slow read? And after reading 4 books in a span of 2 weeks, you’re suddenly craving a book that is not so much focussed on the plot and action but more on a single character and his…

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  • A day with a favourite author #BlogchatterBlogHop

    When I did not understand the process of writing – or what a muse was, I remember thinking if I ever met one of my favourite authors, I would ask them where they got their ideas from. What inspired them and how the hell they wrote and created this tapestry only by using words and…

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  • A genre I don’t usually read #BlogchatterBlogHop

    So any bookish post must begin with me showing off how many books I have finished reading and I’m happy to report I’m sitting at a comfortable 36 – that is 6 books more than my target and it makes me so damn proud that I’m reading again, like I used to a few years…

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  • Fly me to the moon #BlogchatterBlogHop

    “Fly me to the moonLet me play among the starsLet me see what spring is like on a-Jupiter and Mars.” The jazz song welcomed Krupa as she entered a building that was considered swanky in its better days. These days, it wasn’t home to offices where people in fancy clothes walked about, yelling into their…

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  • If I had to choose… #BlogchatterBlogHop

    If I had to choose betweenreading or writingI would choose you readingFor all the joy and solace I find with youof discovering my next readLike a kid in a candy store.

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  • Not a book review: The Seas

    I usually have very little patience for books like The Seas. From the blurb and the first chapter, I was expecting a book that would be self-indulgent, romanticize mental illness, have no plot and just meander through the pages, coming to an abrupt end like the author couldn’t be arsed to at least write a…

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  • The utilitarianism of violence and other things that puzzle me #BlogchatterBlogHop

    Here are 4 things about today’s world that puzzle me [yup I’m just directly going to start]: Who runs the world? Whenever I watched Game of Thrones, the one thing that always stood out to me was how little the people who were fighting to rule Westeros and sit on the iron throne cared about…

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