reading
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I have never tried making reading lists. Even though I love being organized, I dislike putting too much rules on myself because they always make me restless. I end up rebelling for no good reason apart from I can. So, I have steered away from them. But, last year, I made a reading list: an
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It is a truth universally acknowledged and known that Suchita Agarwal uses a Google sheet to organize her reading efforts. But, why and how that began is a story she would like to tell you today.
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Recently, my mother saw me charging my Kindle for the second time in a week and she said, “I preferred it when you were going to the library for books. At least that way, you’d take breaks in between.” It made me laugh. Because now that instant gratification has become a thing with the Kindle,
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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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Dehradun 2004. I was in school and had just discovered the marvels of reading. A friend and I used to reach school before anyone else and we spent those fifteen minutes in bliss, discussing Famous Five and Nancy Drew. We had made a pact that she and I would buy different titles so we could
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Two years ago, I wrote this post on rediscovering reading and after I had published it, I distinctly remember feeling like I had let myself down – especially the younger self who thrived on books. It felt like I had given up, and that I would never again find that joy of a good book,
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For someone whose livelihood depends on reading, I read few books in 2018 – so few that I had a meltdown and immediately decided to make a shorter TBR list from my never-ending pile of TBR to help focus the reading in 2019. All was going well. I spent a wonderful December picking and choosing
tales of Suchita 