Book Review

  • 5 quick reads and whether they’re worth your time

    There used to be a time in my life where I could read an 800-page book in two and a half days. Kudos to her but what the heck were you thinking girl? Now, it’s a given that I will take a minimum of five to seven business days to complete a book, irrespective of

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  • Not a book review: Diary of a Void

    It’s good to know that not all books coming out of Japan are based on bookstores or have cats on their covers! Jokes apart, I picked up Diary of a Void by Emi Yogi (translated by David Boyd and Lucy North) because of its very unique premise: a woman faking a pregnancy because she is

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  • Not a book review: The Day I Became a Runner

    Being a woman in this world is an act of rebellion. While we’re taught we can be intelligent, kind, and accomplish anything we set our minds to, there is always an undercurrent of imminent threat to our lives.

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  • 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!

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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

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