book reviews

  • 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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  • Reading tales: The Way of Kings

    If there is one thing I love about reading fantasy series, it is how immersive an experience it can be. Not only do you follow the same set of characters over three, four, seven, books, but you also get to travel through the land the fantastical tale lives in.

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  • 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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