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…
“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” A Room with a View is a classic…
I have grown up listening to the stories of Mahabharata and Ramayana, and among the two Mahabharata has always fascinated me more. Maybe it was the charm of Krishna which has lured me in my teenage. But as I grew up I started loving it for the complexities and layers…
Shoe Dog is a candid and riveting memoir of the CEO and founder of the multi-billion dollar company Nike, Phil Knight. This is a story of how he created this business borrowing 50 dollars from his father, going after something not many approved of and facing all the challenges, negotiating…
Dragonfly in Amber is the second book in the Outlander series which is a multi-genre series by Diana Gabaldon. The first one is Outlander and that is already reviewed earlier on the blog. And if you have read it you must know that how much I loved that one. So,…
Wuthering Heights is a story set up in the late 18th century in rural the Yorkshire moors in rural England. The story follows the lives of people living in Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange households. The main protagonist of the story, Heathcliff and Catherine belong to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is…
Sophie Kinsella is an English author known for her romantic comedy genre. She got her fame from the Shopaholic series and after that, she has written a number of individual novels which were also quite good. Now, her style of writing is not very much appreciated by so-called literary intellectuals…
If you have followed me then you must know I have decided to adopt minimalism in my life around 1-2 months back and this book played a key role in it. The first step to live a minimalistic life is to declutter things from your life and hence this book.…
This book was initially written in Korean but after a huge hit there, it was translated to English and millions of copies have been sold since then. I picked up this book as part of the book club I am in and I was immediately intrigued. This is a story…
The Little Prince is a children’s classics, always listed in the Top 100 books to-read list. When I picked and flipped through it, I was so happy to see all these beautiful illustrations. But yeah then I thought it is meant for children only. But it is a book written…
