Reading is personal! My reading habits are very different from others and I think it would be same for them. So it would be hard for me to say which book should be read by whom. The one book I can think of that I hope is read by more people is The Hindi Bindi… Continue reading
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Day 23 – A book I wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t!
I will name two books that I bought because I wanted to read them but still haven’t. I have the books but for some reason or the other haven’t read them. The first one is Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now I bought the book a few years ago and was meant to read… Continue reading
Day 16 – Favourite Female character
I love books with strong female characters. I actually feel kinship with strong women. So over the years I have read a lot of books with woman as the central character. In fact, one of my favourite books is “Becoming” by Michelle Obama. My favourite female character is Skeeter from The Help. This book is… Continue reading
Day 6 – A book that makes me sad!
I wrote about my happy book yesterday. I have read so many books that make me sad – mostly they are the stories where humans turned on humans; they are the stories of human power gone wrong; where humans forgot their humanism and were motivated by man made differences like caste, creed, colour and race!… Continue reading
Day 5 – A book that makes me happy
I have a lot of feel good books – books that make me feel warm, fuzzy and happy! Most of these books are human stories having a happy ending. There are some authors who write happy books. They are called chick-lit, light, airy books, good for a read on the beach or on holidays. I… Continue reading
Day 4 – Favourite book of favourite series
I wrote about my favourite series in my earlier blog. Now let me tell you about my favourite book from the trilogy. The second book The Winter Rose is my favourite. The start of the book is slow. But one or two chapters in, it picks up pace. It is a love story between an… Continue reading
Day 1 – Best book I read last year
I did not read a lot of books last year. I had joined a new job and life was very busy. My parents visited me last year and got my haul of Hindi books. It is a rite of passage – anyone coming from india has to get me the Hindi language books from my… Continue reading
Day 30 – Hopes for my blog
I started the 30 day blogging challenge as a personal motivation to write every day. I had no other expectation. Even when I was putting the topics together, I was sceptical. I did not know how I would go and whether I would be able to keep it up. But as I started writing, I… Continue reading
Day 29 – Highs and lows of the year
2020 has been a strange year for majority of the world. This is the first year, for most of us, when we experienced a pandemic and our freedoms were restricted because of that. Most of our generation, from the free world, has never seen a war. So all this was a shock to the system.… Continue reading
Day 27 – Three lessons for my son
We all gain lessons from our lives and hope that our kids learn from our life lessons. It comes from wanting to protect them. But, some like my son, want to make their own mistakes and learn from it. Still, below are the three things I wish my son would learn from my life. Travel… Continue reading