I am unashamedly guilty of being in awe of J.K. Rowling. This respectful admiration of being a long-standing fangirl is not only limited to her impressive lineup featuring Potter World but also her ventures into the mystery genre as Rober Galbraith. So, it’s only natural that I have followed the troublesome but triumphant journey of…
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From Words To Views| Bridgerton (Season 3)
As someone who grew up watching saccharine, sweet romantic stories dished out by Bollywood year after year, and especially someone who grew up with the romantic comedies of the 1990s and early 2000s, the central plotline with many twists ‘and turns surrounding it in the Bridgerton world should not come as a surprise. But then…
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin
Are you fond of online gaming? Do you take any interest in the world of video gaming? Are you also keen on understanding nuances of human relationships spanning multiple decades? Finally, do you dot on complicated confusing love stories? If you answer affirmatively to one or more of these questions then you have reached the…
The Night She Disappeared | Lisa Jewell
This book falls in the category of gradually increasing their allure with every flipped/ swiped page. On the surface though it seems to be another teenage romance story which is not heading in the expected direction of ‘and they lived happily ever after’ but there is much more nuance to it added skilfully by such…
The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman | [Book 1: “Thursday Murder Club” series]
What is so sensational about this book that people are hooked it from day one?? Is the plot or the protagonists? After reading this smash hit of a book, I am inclining towards the later than the former. It’s not that we are unfamiliar with murder mysteries taking place in unusual circumstances/ places which in…
The Making Of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece | Tom Hanks
When you have a powerhouse talent with an illustrious career writing about the movie making process; you ought to sit up and take note immediately. It’s like pulling aside a curtain and welcoming the movie goers to a world shrouded in glittering mythical mystery. So, it’s no wonder that The Making of Another Major Motion…
The Burnout | Sophie Kinsella
There are times when you need an endearing story to cheer you up and put you in good spirits. This is one such book and have read other books by this author, I am familiar of her writing style of putting difficult concepts with much simplicity. So, this is not my first book by this…
One of Us Is Lying | Karen M. McManus
The novel begins with a backstory about five high schoolers who were punished for behaving uncharacteristically foolish during a class which has led them to their current predicament. It’s neither a smooth starting nor the characters introduced are easygoing. Still, something about the humdrum beginning keeps the readers engaged to deliver a gut punch. The…
Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney
Published in 2021 in the middle of a global catastrophe, this is an interesting novel correlating the idea of isolation and depressive thoughts during such challenging times with the modern living. what the living cut-off with the global crisis but from a different perspective. The story revolves around four main characters, although there are other…
From Words To Views| All Quite On The Western Front
The first scene itself sets a definite tone of the movie. There is death and destruction everywhere. Trenches are full of dismembered bodies floating in the murky waters and gloom is shrouding faster than the ever present mist mixed with the gunpowder smoke. But what gave my heart a cold numbing shock was the ‘recycling’…
Oh William! | Elizabeth Strout| (Lucy Barton Book Series- 3)
How can you sum up a book so abstract, so vague in its subject matter and with such a thin plot!!! This is apparently third book in the Lucy Barton book quartet which can be read as an independent book in itself without the necessity of reading the prior two books to understand the basic…
My Year of Rest And Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh
Let’s call this as a sleeping beauty story with modern plot twists set against an American backdrop. But unlike the original fairy tale where the darling princess is sleeping because of an uninvited curse, this beautiful girl is inviting sleep on account of a self inflicted curse. Wait, what???!!!! Does this make sense at all??…
Autumn | Ali Smith | [Seasonal Quartet 1]
It’s the autumn of 2016; nothing is as it seems and it won’t be ever again, Elisabeth senses it, can see it but feels lost. It’s not like she can do anything about her changing reality because her mind is preoccupied with the worrisome thoughts of Mr. Gluck Mr. Daniel Gluck who used to be…
Problems With People | David Guterson
There are so many books whose covers disappoint and then there are those whose cover delivers as promised. This book by David Guterson comes in the second category which delivers problems faced by people as promised on the cover of it. To be frank, it is not all gloom and doom narrative but rather peculiar…