Plot Overview This is a story about a young man living in a close-knit & slightly dysfunctional family. The family has come suddenly into wealth and it has changed the way of their life and the family dynamics. The young man. who is also the narrator, visits a coffee shop…
Fredrick Backman is the author discovery of this year for me. I have read 2 books by him this year and one other already sitting on my shelf. One of the beauties of Fredrick Backman’s writing is that it makes me feel things that I don’t want to feel. A…
Before we start talking about this book, I have a confession to make. I butchered this magnificent saga. For some reason, I decided to listen to this book rather than to read. And that was my biggest mistake. This is a big book with all Tolstoy elements, full of political,…
“Seasons flow in a cycle.Life too, passes through difficult winters.But after any winter, spring will follow.” Plot Overview There is a small cafe in Tokyo, which lets you travel back in time. But there are rules for that. The most important ones are whatever you do you can never change…
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” The Return of the King is the last and final part of the famous The Lord of the Ring Series by J.R.R. Tolkien. This book concludes the story of the ring which started in The Hobbit. My Experience reading it(Unpopular Opinion) I…
Plot Overview Five members of the Winthrop family are dead, in some seemingly different accidents. The family is well-loved for its kindness and charitable nature. After the death of all the living family members, the entire fortune went to charity. But Dana Evans, a famous TV anchorwoman could not digest…
“You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.” Plot Overview Nora is suffering from depression and mental health issues. And one day her despair hits rock bottom and she decides to take her life. But she found that between life and death, there is a library,…
Plot Overview Four people have died in 4 different parts of the world, in 4 different accidents. But all of them seem to be linked in some or the other way to an international Think Tank headed by Tanner Kingsley. Two women, widows of the two dead, Diane Stevens and…
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid…” Plot Overview A tornado whirls Dorothy and her dog into a magical world full of munchkins, witches, and wizards. To go back to her home in Kansas city she seeks the help of the wizard of Oz who lives in…
“Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.” Sci-fi is never a genre I pick myself, so when the sci-fi bookclub had a biography of a famous Nobel Prize winner as a book…
