Book Review: Animal Farm by George Orwell

I cannot be trusted with words to talk about this book. It's a masterpiece, an allegory to the Russian Revolution that I cannot claim to know much of. How I see it is that this is a story depicting any sort of revolution with the hopes of the same old Marxist utopia which never happens. …

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Book Review: Leila by Prayaag Akbar

It feels like a subway sandwich with too much red chili sauce but you can’t stop eating it. This is not a feel-good novel, needless to say. Written very deftly, very crisp writing. The world in the book is not really that far-fetched, which is now a characteristic of almost all dystopian novels from 1984 …

Book Review: small acts of freedom by Gurmehar Kaur

A very quick and lovely read, most of it sounds like a 3-year-old Gulgul is reciting her story. Her story is about her family, she traces her own history while talking foremost about her father and how his loss guided her life. The memory of her father is deeply entrenched in her narrative. The book …

Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

It sounds like it is one of the pilgrimage tales of Canterbury by Chaucer. And when you start reading it, it's nothing you would have imagined it to be. I think the interesting thing about this book is that it tells you a tale of someone with no agency and gives her an end you're …

My Mental Health (I am scared for my life but I wouldn’t mind dying.)

Sometimes, I wish I could just make everyone around me believe that it is okay for me to die, that it is okay if some humans want to die, of course, after clear notification of their illness by a doctor. I mean, I know I have a borderline personality disorder with bipolar mood tendencies, I …

Book Review: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is not a pretentiously profound novel. Good thing is, it doesn't even claim to being profound. It's just a story of a very eventful night led by music in the lives of two teenagers with broken hearts. It's a very light read. Nobody can review this book in more than …

Book Review: Yes Please by Amy Poehler

How it Feels to Read This At times, it feels like crying when Amy goes into a philosophical mood. Otherwise, it feels happy, really happy to read this book. She starts by talking about how hard it is to write a book, then takes you through her pregnancy, her childhood towards her college, her improv …

Book Review: Sadie by Courtney Summers

How Does it Feel to Read This? It is a thrill to read this book. From the starting, you’re hooked because it starts by giving the information about the death of a thirteen-year-old girl Mattie. Then, you realize her elder sister, nineteen-year-old Sadie is missing. While reading this, some disturbing questions arise in your mind …

5 Books I’m Reading Together (My brain is too hyperactive)

We all have that one book that just keeps us going deeper into it. The ‘I couldn’t put it down’ book. The book we love so much that we re-read. Well, I don’t have that book, yet. I like reading books once, because I have no time for re-reading, OKAY!? There are some books I …

Life-Changing Memoirs I’ve Read This Year (Part One)

This year, I realized that I do enjoy non-fiction. I have always been a person who loved reading fictional stories to get lost in fictional worlds (basically, anything to take me away from reality) with the exception of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. I started reading auto-biographical work with Aaydan or …