Book Reviews

- John Green"So dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay." Romance novels are cliché, some love stories die when the people in them die, but we learn a lot about human complexities from it. Just keep your minds open. The fault in our stars is a story of two Cancer...

- Mark HaddonChristopher decides to document his investigation and ends up writing a book about the same. The book is full of flowcharts and diagrams which makes it so damn interesting. Also, fun fact – the book chapters are numbered in prime numbers which according...

- John Boyne“Those people… well, they’re not people at all.”The book is set in Auschwitz, a story of two friends: Bruno and Shmuel! The kids would’ve made much more sense if the author assigned better ages to them. Bruno and Shmuel were 9 years old but I’d prefer if...

- Javed Akhtar“Books In the alcoves or on the shelf Sat like some school-ma’am. But they waited for me To ask them something.”“The poet does not set himself up as the orator, who already knows all the answers. He merely asks simple questions to which the response...

- Vivek Tejuja“It’s funny how parents mean so much to children and vice-versa, and yet we don’t believe in honest conversations in our country.” The book felt like I was listening to a distant cousin’s story, the one who has been around for many years now, often found...

-Khaled Hosseini “This is a Hosseini we have never read, and yet, this is, after all, the only Hosseini we know of.” I read this line in one of the reviews on Goodreads and I couldn’t agree any more. This book is not exactly written in his style, but it drains me all...

- Aanchal MalhotraThe Remnants of a Separation is a book by Aanchal Malhotra where she uses 21 objects from the time of partition and earlier that people have safegaurded till these years. The author interviews the families who witnessed the dreadful events that took...

- Jean Sasson A book ahead of its time, a BOLD one. I feel blessed and grateful that it was not relatable to me. This book is a revelation and a revolution in itself in which a Royal, a Princess of Saudi Arabia, ’Sultana’ talks about her life and those around her....

-Haruki MurakamiAs soon as I opened the book, my first instinct was to listen to the song Norwegian wood by Beatles. Also, if you go through Youtube comments on that particular song, 90% of them went after the book. “‘This was caused by that, and that means this,...