Who would have thought that reading would become a super power one day? For all of us, who have been reading since we were old enough to understand words, had English teachers prod our imaginations with stories, and checked out more books from libraries than we could carry, reading has been akin to breathing, to... Continue Reading →
Book: My Sister's KeeperAuthor: Jodi PicoultYear: 2004Bookhad Rating: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ *** "The thing is, I didn’t want to be this person anymore. I didn’t want to be the girl who was sick, who made her sister go to court, who forced her family to live like everything was always about dying." *** If there... Continue Reading →
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 →
Keeping in with tradition here's the list of books read the Bookhad admins this year. It was a conscious effort to read books by various countries because there's so much more to literature than the Western canon. Therefore, this year's Bookhad book list is arranged by country. We've also thrown in a couple of short stories... Continue Reading →
Book: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Author: Gabrielle Zevin Year: 2014 Bookhad Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ "A place is no place without a bookstore." A. J. Fikry owns a purple Victorian cottage on Alice Island. A widower who lives mostly on frozen foods and is unable to forget his wife Nic who died in a car... Continue Reading →
The end came upon us like a thief. And left with an equally light tread. It caught us unaware; it caught us asleep. The light of the sun came creeping Upon our sleeping forms. It gently stirred the darkness away Into nothing. The new day was equally bright. Just like the many previous ones; The same... Continue Reading →
The end is almost upon us. December is about to be dissolved and January is to take charge of the life ahead. Bookhad interviewed its readers and the entire series was a peek in to the minds of the average Bookhad; their idiosyncrasies, their likes and dislikes, their flavour and their relationship with the written... Continue Reading →
And here we are, at the one-but-last interview of the season. Allowing us to interview her, is one of the admins' elder sister who has been a constant source of inspiration, criticism and the go-to person for all the insight on Literature for our very own Siddiqui. So it makes sense to have her here.... Continue Reading →
When an introvert agrees to do an interview with us, we feel that there must be something that we're doing right. After all, they don't come out of their shells just like that, do they? This time, a CA is in conversation with us about the fiction he reads.Reader Bio: When we asked Asim Mahmood, to... Continue Reading →
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