winter season
The second novel by Elizabeth Gilbert is all about the memories; memories of one’s youth enjoyed and spent in repentance, memories of familial relationships built and nurtured, memories of friendships built and lost and memories of a city loved and admired for over a lifetime. The story begins in 1940s New York when Vivian Morris, […]
Well, if you have read the book and then watching this Netflix adaptation (like me) then there are hardly any spoilers or shock value to the story. However, readers might get surprised by the topsy-turvy treatment given to the original story while transforming it to be a screenplay. Unlike the book where more or less […]
If I have to explain in one sentence about this book then I would say that it talks about human relations, breakage of family system, loneliness, the fallacy of the modern financial system and the psychological impacts on account of one or multiple of these issues. And yes, the black humour which envelopes it and […]
Adopted from the book of the same name written by Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man is a layered story connecting various murders in modern day Denmark. On the outset, it feels like a typical murder investigation story led by a controversial detective pair who are battling their own personal complicated lives. But as the drama […]
Fans of romantic drama and stories intercepted across timelines will surely like this movie. Based on the novel of the same name by Jojo Moyes, this film essentially focuses on taking chances in love and this theme is presented across two time periods till the end. The film begins in a fictional British newspaper as […]
This compact but complex book of essays by Zadie Smith is your quintessential reading for these unusual, unpredictable times. Coming out in the middle of this once-a-century pandemic, these six concise essays manage to capture the mood of this muddled hour so perfectly. These six essays have nothing in common in them per se but […]
A girl can dream- she can dream of visiting different places, meeting new set of people and having a better life. But what if while chasing these dreams, she has to make a deal and then keep that bargain going on for more than 300 years. Curios enough? Then read on. The story of Adeline […]
This book adaptation was the one that I have been looking forward to watch for a while. Although premiered and streamed in UK few years back, it took a while to reach this to my part of the world. But was this prolonged waiting worth it? Read more to find out. Adapted from the Cormoran […]
The best way to describe this story can be- when a languid summer turns into a love story or how a friendship leads to the bittersweet heartaches. Based on the book of the same name by André Aciman, the simple romance with complicated details makes it one of the compelling feature film of our times. […]
The second volume of the Penguin Book of the British Short Story presents spectacular writings from a variety of talented, brilliant authors across generations of writers. This list includes writing legends like P. G. Wodehouse, V. S. Naipaul, W. Somerset Maugham, Roald Dahl, Doris Lessing to contemporary geniuses such as Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith to name a few.
