“Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.” Plot Overview Imagine you are waiting for a book with a lot of anticipation. You pre-ordered the book and the day you received it, you started eagerly to devour it. But…
The Graveyard Book is a middle-grade fantasy novel. This book explores the adventures of Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens who is adopted by the ghosts of a graveyard after his family is murdered. He was given access to ways of the graveyard and learning the ways of the dead while growing up…
Kafka on the Shore is a story of 15-year-old boy Kafka Tamura who ran away from his home to escape a gruesome prophecy. This is also the story of Nakata whose life changed upside down during the war. He is now simple aging man living on sub from the government…
“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn’t get–and never would get.” Plot Overview This is coming of age story of two Mexican American teenage boys, Aristotle and Dante. They both are different from the other…
“Please, sir, I want some more.” Charles Dickens is a well-known name in the world of literary fiction and Oliver Twist is one of his most loved books. This book explores life in the streets of Victorian London, the era which behind all the romanticization also has the harsh reality…
Voyager is the third book in the Outlander saga by Diana Gabaldon, one of my new favorite series. I don’t know how do I write about this book without spoiling for Book#1 and #2. So, if you haven’t read those books and wish to read please skip this post and…
I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. Working in a multi-national company and that too focused on diversity and inclusion I have attended a lot of talks, workshops,…
There are few books that you know will break your heart but still, you pick them up to get your heart ripped out, to cry out your eyes because “When death has a story to tell, you listen.” What the book is about? The book is set up in 1939,…
Do you sometimes love a book so much that you don’t know what to write about it? Because you know that whatever you write will not do justice to the book. Some books come into your life to touch your heart and give a warm hug and without saying A…
A Spool of Blue Thread is a story of 4 generations of Whitshanks, settled in Baltimore. The story weaves around all the family members and their life, their family dynamics, their closeness and togetherness in times of need, and yet aloofness in day-to-day life to make you wonder. In most…
