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Oh! Nastenka! It will be sad, you know, to be left alone, quite alone, and not even have something to regret- nothing, absoluetly nothing......because all that I have lost, all this, it was nothing, absolutely nothing, a stupid, round zero- it was merely a dream! -Dostoyevsky, White Nights, pg. no 39 I didn't come across … Continue reading Why Read White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
This book combines two genres, romance and self-help but it's largely self-help after a short love story ending on the break-up. The remaining part of the book is about overcoming it. The theme of the book is very relevant to teenagers where love and separation are universal.
Three Men in a Boat, running through 19 chapters is written uniquely. Largely first-person narrative, a brief summary of each chapter is provided at the beginning. The story narrated is non-fictional and the incident actually happened with Jerome and his two friends
You want to comeback to 'The Comfort Book' time and again and each time, you'll find that it's still afresh and inspires you the same way it did the last time.
There are symbolic dreams- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities- realities that symbolize a dream. - Murakami What is something you hear about quite often but got to know lately? For me, it is Murakami, Haruki Murakami- a best seller, hailing from Japan! Birthday delight! Title: Wild Sheep Chase Author: Haruki … Continue reading Exploring Haruki Murakami’s Wild Sheep Chase and His Writing Style
The bumble-bee came- Strutting among the flowers, strumming love....' - Bapsi Sidhwa How does it feel to revisit the horrors of partition 78 years after it? Can we actually feel the gravity of situations? Though most of us haven't seen it with our eyes, reading someone else's experience takes us through a range of emotions. … Continue reading Ice-Candy Man: Perspectives on Partition Through Child as a Narrator
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it! -Margaret Atwood We, humans, have been telling, re-telling and listening to stories since time immemorial. It's inherent in us. We've grown with it. We're growing each day, sometimes listening to someone's stories whereas sometimes by telling our own. … Continue reading Write India Stories: A Diverse Collection of Award-Winning Short Stories
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world. - Percy Bysshe Shelley We all need a bit of poetry in our life. When life becomes prosaic. When rhythm appears missing. When the meter increases. When trying to find reasons. When delving deeper! People do seek suggestions about good books to read pertaining … Continue reading 50 World’s Greatest Poems Anthology: 327 Pages of Timeless Beauty
The only true law is that which leads to freedom. There is no other! -Richard Bach How do you perceive a book if it's a novel or a collection of short stories? Isn't it something full of words printed in black, in a legible font, running into several lines and stacked one after the other … Continue reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Fable by Richard Bach
If only thinking would have made us rich, we all would have been millionaires. Unfortunately, we are not! This book is the perfect example of the quote, "We shouldn't judge a book by its cover". The word 'rich' here is used metaphorically i.e. rich in terms of quality of life and thought process. Let there … Continue reading Book Review: Think & Grow Rich
There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the … Continue reading Book Review: The Kite Runner
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