• How do you rate books?

    How do you rate books?

    I dislike giving stars to books. I remember talking to a friend, telling her how much I love a book and she happened to see the rating I had given this book and she was confused because I had given it only 3 stars. When she asked me to explain, I had no idea why…

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  • Journaling: something new that has helped my mental health

    I have always been envious of people who could journal. A friend of mine still has her journals from school and she goes through them from time to time, just to reaffirm how she has grown and yet, maintained her child-like awe and terror in new experiences.

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  • Reading tales: Project Hail Mary and the Murderbot Diaries

    I haven’t written a post on my blog – or for #BlogchatterBlogHop – in a while and it does not surprise me that I’m breaking this dry spell because this week’s prompt says: a book or movie that deeply impacted you. And now I have zero excuses to not talk about these two books that…

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  • What is effective storytelling

    We are all storytellers. Whether it is the stories we tell our friends – of incidents where we were the protagonist or how we were appreciated for something at work – or the stories we tell ourselves – maybe I shouldn’t eat this extra roti because I need space for dessert – we love telling…

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  • 3 things on kindness I have learnt from my parents

    My household has always been one where birthdays and celebrations have been bookended by donations – either to old age homes or orphanages. I still remember the yearly letter we used to get from Help Age India and how dad’s contribution had been used to help someone’s livelihood.

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  • 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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