Book: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (#1) & A Prayer for Crown Shy (#2)Author: Becky ChambersYear: 2021 & 2022 (respectively)Booked Rating: ❤️❤️❤️ When I read Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer outing A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet a nagging thought never left me. Why, I wondered, did science fiction set thousands of years into the... Continue Reading →
I’m a fan of re reading and I think I have mentioned that more than once right here. There are many reasons which compel me to read a book that I've already perused and, usually, it is the want of getting closer to the story or the character of the book. This January I chose... Continue Reading →
On the occasion of World Poetry Day, just like last year, we, the admins, share a poem that we love, each. We hope you love them, feel them, breathe with them, and if not, you find your own poems to love and hold on to. For women who are ‘difficult’ to love by Warsan Shire... Continue Reading →
Poetry is something that I never bothered much about until I was 14 or so. Like all first timers it was Nature that attracted me to the brilliance of poetry. Nature lovers have always written amazing poetry. To start with there is the all famous William Wordsworth. He wrote a lot of nature inspired poetry... Continue Reading →
Re-reading is no big deal for me. If I start listing all the books that I have read more than once I will not have any need to write anything else to reach the acceptable word limit for a blog post. People read books for many reasons. I can't possibly list them down here. But, re-reading?... Continue Reading →
We’ve seen a lot of plagiarism; in literature, in music, in any work of creative ingenuity basically. Writers have been caught red-handed and all their glory lost in a matter of seconds, which took years to build. Just recently we saw Fareed Zakaria, the guy from CNN, admitting to lifting portions from The New Yorker.... Continue Reading →
I'm half way through George Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London (wait for the review) and I was disappointed when I found out that the factual accuracy of the book was under doubt. According to some, Orwell exaggerated his impoverished situation in Paris and that he willingly lived with tramps in London for... Continue Reading →
While I currently read Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald and the world awaits for the The Great Gatsby to hit screens, here’s something to chew on.
To coincide with the imminent release of Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, we thought we’d offer some interesting facts about the author who wrote this masterpiece of the ‘Jazz Age’.
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How many times have we chosen books solely based on the genre? Are the readers, the voracious ones, depending only on certain kinds of books? Or, they, the very sparsely read population, just pick books based on the best seller lists? Some like only fiction; while some thrive on non-fiction. Then there are chose charitable... Continue Reading →
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