There is a general consensus that if a character or characters make you want to hug them or shake them till their teeth rattles or anything in-between, then the book is well-written or the movie well-made. Salini Vineeth’s Lost Edges makes you relate to the...
A collection of poems that make one's heart sing and think Sonal’s debut Poetry collection ranges from sheer ecstasy to poignant bliss. There are two sections to the book - Nature’s Rhapsody and Life's Foibles If the poem 'Languid Morning' made me...
Just a Regular Boy by Catherine Ryan Hyde- A book review A five-year-old boy, Remy is taken away by his 'Survivalist' father to live in the wilderness, as he feels that it is the only place where they would have freedom. He manages to convince his little boy...
Almond by Won Pyung Sohn- A Book Review I have nothing except rhapsodies of praise for this book. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia where he cannot identify emotions, particularly fear, and anger. His mother a single mother comes back to her...
Another book from my rather long TBR was completed today. I saw this movie some time ago. I remember crying then. I read the book in the last couple of days..I cried afresh. Not the deep, sad, hopeless tears of despair but the satisfying tears of hope, love, and...
The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan - a book review Listening to this book on Audible, the saga of the Martels kept me immersed for days on end. With each war story, I am freshly aghast with the horrors those innocent civilians caught between two warring countries...
This book took some time. I finished two tiny books in quick succession predominantly because of the difficulty of holding up 462 pages of the hard-bound book while lying down, which happens to be my favourite position to read! I haven't read the author's Rules of...
Soumya Bharathi book Tales from the Moonlit Hearts, is one read that doesn't leave your heart in a trembling mass but a slow, tender, reassuring thud and I tweak Robert Browning's Quote : “Love's in the air— All's right in Soumya 's world!” The short...
This is a book that I read almost a month ago, but somehow the review was kept pending. Despite the gap, this book remains fresh in my mind. Rephrasing the book's blurb, this story is about the survival drama when a routine flight from Mumbai to Delhi is hijacked and...