Book Reviews

- R.J Placio I never thought a book with such shiny bright cover would turn out to be so dark inside! But then the sun rises eventually. Reason enough for it to be one of July recommendations in the Shiny Happy Book Club. August Pullman is the sun of this book. The...

- Durjoy Datta“You were supposed to be my story. Instead, you changed mine.” This book, the twist, that cover page! The author shares all the posts and we, the admirers read every possible review to get that nostalgia trip and clap “yes I noticed that as well”.The...

- Sohaila Abdulali“The problem with spotlights is the surrounding darkness.” It is dark out there but it shows that we’ve to look for the light within. Most of us have seen and heard of rape online and offline, we try to imagine the trauma that follows at large but...

-Paulo Coelho“Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you, but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t...

-Mario Puzo“He’s not a crazy machine-gunning mobster as you seem to think. He’s a responsible man in his own way.” That is The Godfather. Many of us are aware of the concept of a catholic Godfather I believe. This one right here is a little different though. This guy...

- Albert CamusIt’s June now, we started dreading the virus in India with the start of March. Almost 3 months of voluntary and involuntary (for many) lockdown, Self-isolation,Quarantine. We are constantly “Trying, through dead phrases, to convey some notion of our...

- Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni“Finally I had the freedom men had for centuries, my situation was very different from that of a man with several wives. Unlike him, I had no choice as to whom I slept with, and when. Like a communal drinking cup, I would be passed from...

- Khaled Hosseini“There is a way to be good again.” Is this declared a classic yet? Bestseller of course! I remember being lost for days after I read this book. I literally was.A book full of love, innocence, friendship, jealousy, betrayal , lies, family, survivor’s...

- Chitra Divakaruni Bannerjee“Red. But of course. How else could I write my story except in the colour of menstruation and childbirth, the colour of the marriage mark that changes women’s lives, the colour of the flowers of the Ashoka tree under which I had spent my...