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10 Comics Every 90s Kid Will Remember Fondly

Somewhere in a dusty and dark corner of my house still lies a stack of sepia-tined comics that I have read and re-read thousand times in my childhood. I read them to escape studies and homework, read them when I was bored or just because a challenge with a friend who will read first. Comics were the great and quick gateway that took us to the unknown world.

I speak for all of us when I say that…

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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai is a multifaceted novel which weaves the motifs of family, class and experience of living the life of an outsider into a beautiful storyline. The book is primarily set in Kalimpong, a small town situated at the foothills of Himalayas in the mid 1980’s during the tension in Nepal for the establishment of a separate Gorkha State. Though, like many of its…

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#Book #Gorkha #Himalayas #Kalimpong #Kiran Desai #Man Booker Prize #Nepal #New York

Novels by Anita Desai

A person needs a loads of patience and time in hand to read books by Anita Desai. Not just because they are difficult reads, but because they make you consider, mull, stop in between and reflect your state of mind and heart, and make you come back to the book/s in bits and parts.

I was introduced to Anita Desai by one of my library friend and the only thing which make me go through the book was…

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#Anita Desai #Author #Books #Fire on the Mountain #Games at Twilight & other stories #In the Custody #The Artist of Disappearance

Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love – all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine’s life.

S J Wilson debut novel Before I Go To Sleep has gained much attention while its release in 2011, so popular that its film rights has…

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#Psychological thriller #Ridley Scott #S J Watson #Suspense #Thriller

New Year Releases : January 2015

A hot cuppa of tea and a crackling fire might help you up on the coldest days of this month, but a steamy romantic novel or spicy thriller will really do the trick. This chilly weather is a perfect excuse to avoid venturing far away from the comforts of warm and cozy homes. So curl up and pick the January released books which explores love, forbidden but passionate encounters and relationships…

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Happy New Year and Reading Projects 2015

Happy New Year!!!!!

Gone 2014 and Welcome 2015 with new reads and projects… The year 2014 passes out with starting this blog and many unwanted surprises though wish that year 2015 brings new hope and possibilities…. Have already spoken about one challenge I will try to finish before the year 2015 ends. But its not the one challenge I want to finish but more to go for this year.

So, here goes…

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#2015 #Book Challenge #Fiction #Man Booker Prize #Non-Fiction #Reading

Reading Challenge 2015- Part 1

Now that the year 2014 is about ti finish. This year I started my blog to challenge myself to read more diverse books and only for Reading, Reading & Reading more books……

For next year, 2015, I have a very ambitious plan for reading challenge. Not one but 3 different challenges I will try to live up with. So the first challenge is to read books from the different types of books mention in the…

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#2015 #Reading Challenge

Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi

Many of us as jaded reader reflexively do the old custom of eye roll up when we hear about a new book which falls in the “ Diaspora fiction” category- meaning it’s all about immigrant angst, dislocation, etc. But reading Rishi Reddi’s Karma & Other Stories reminds that how unfair we are to think of all such writing and novels as stereotype – but each work should be judged on its own merits…

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#America #Immigrant #Indian American #Rishi Reddi #Short Stories #Telgu

Apocalyptic Novels- My best 5 ......

Apocalyptic Novels- My best 5 ……

Hunger Games, 28 Days Later, The Walking Dead, World without End…..

As a reader, we are drawn towards apocalyptic stories for many reasons, like constant talks & debate about Global warming or our melting icebergs. The endgame is part of our social consciousness, as it should be. But it’s also a kind of fun to imagine what we’d do when facing nature calamity like World War Z or The Maze Runner. W…

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#Apocalyptic #Cormac McCarthy #David Brin #Justin Cronin #Richard Matheson #Stephen King #Zombie

Does Gender Determine What Books We Read????

Books are been read by men and women both. While both the genders are reading around the same number of books per year, their sex may be determining the gender of the authors they gravitate towards. Recently Goodreads did a study on 40,000 of their most active readers on their website and found that not only women are more likely to read books by women authors, but this year, they read 2 times…

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The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith

Nikita Khrushchev’s so called “Secret Speech” is the central spark to the events of Tom Rob Smith’s The Secret Speech. For those who have not read Smith’s previous novel, CHILD 44, pick it and read it first, because this novel is a continuation of certain characters from that story. Smith’s debut novel CHILD 44, garnered both critical and commercial acclaim. Secret Speech is set in the period…

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#Budapest #Child 44 #Moscow #Nikita Khrushchev #Russia #Soviet Era #Stalin #Tom Rob Smith

The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg

Many books and memoir been written on Auschwitz and Holocaust against Jews under the regime of Hitler and Nazi’s.

Joel C. Rosenberg latest book The Auschwitz Escape is a work of Historical fictional based on heroic escape from the Nazis which is both breathtaking and heartbreaking. Set in War II, the Nazi machine under Adolph Hitler has begun sweeping through Europe leaving bloodshed and…

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#Auschwitz #Germany #Hitler #Holocaust #Jews #Nazi #Poland #World War II

November Read- 10 Best book#

Is it damp and cold in your soul? Don’t worry I feel the same. Thankfully this month is pretty good for book lovers – and especially as it turns out, for books of essay. There are plenty of big – names novels to be published. Hopefully can read these books by this month end. Somehow it seems unrealistic for now… Let’s hope for the best!!!!!

There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate…

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Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Here is the first conundrum: Snow is pure but not innocent, and it covers dirt, mud and darkness. Already one can judge that this book will be ironic. But how ironic though is a matter for disputation, but my notion is that its very foundation is ironic, as it contends with what is means to be an artist in a political society, with how one can live in a conflicted society. The plot revolves…

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#Orhan Pamuk

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

The Space Between us.

“The thin woman in the green sari stood on the slippery rocks and gazed at the dark waters around her. The warm wind loosened strands of scanty hair, pulling them out of her bun. Behind her, the sounds of the city were muted, shushed into silence by the steady lapping of the water around her bare feet.”

The Space Between Us is a…

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#Aravind Adiga #Bombay #Caste system #White Tiger

Jinju Lantern Festival.....

Jinju Lantern Festival…..

Coming from a country where every festival is celebrated like larger than life… Yeah I’m talking about India… I like the festival seasons and its celebration parade. So when came to Korea the one thing I like the most was celebrating festivals with family.

Korea as a cultural country has many festivals for every season. Firework festival, lantern festival, mask festival, mud festival, green tea…

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#Festival #India #Japan #Jinju #lantern #South Korea

Adjustment..

Adjustment: New word in my dictionary…..

Adjusting to new and unfamiliar circumstances takes time and for some, this can come as a big surprise. People often find moving house, moving to a new city or changing jobs very unsettling experiences, but to do these things all at once in another country where you don’t speak the language is an entirely different matter.

After my marriage, I shifted…

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#India #Mumbai #South Korea

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