We were liars was my ticket out of a pretty long reading slump. ‘The writing style of this book is utterly exquisite and makes this book impossible to put down’ – The Guardian Reading slumps are terrible. They are composed of guilt, anxiety and a whole lot of procrastination. Reading doesn’t come to most of […]
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. It is known for the prestigious German Literary Prize, Theodor Fontane Prize. Gregor Samsa the protagonist lies awake contemplating in his body of a vermin the circumstances in which he transformed over the night. He is a traveling salesman with the immediate concern […]
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy is the ultimate pick for Pride Month and it will take you places. It starts from the old Delhi, a time before Coca Cola had laid siege to the Roofafza empire. We meet Aftab when he is just a boy with a beautiful voice and a dream […]
Holden Caulfield is a character that has largely been remembered for his distaste for the human race in general and yet his unwavering effort to find connection. He captures the essence of being a teenager in The Catcher in the Rye and it is among one of the first and most notable pieces in English […]
Remember that there are people who don’t mind when you lie to them. They don’t mind when you tell them stories. So long as you tell a good one. For they have heard many. They need you to make them believe. Believe the things that they don’t see. If you lie to them You’ll have […]
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt is a beautiful remembrance of what seems to have been a battle won against poverty. Winner of Pultizer Prize, it is rightfully a competitor of Dickens. It reminds you even so of ‘A tree grows in Brooklyn ‘ by Betty Smith. ” ’tis a sad day for the men of […]
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom will make you look at life from the very perspective that its natural to die and unnatural to not live while you’re still alive. We read in turns from when the main characters Mitch and Morrie knew each other as college student and professor and when they got to […]
This town is running out of its second chances There’s too many people and they’re all praying for a miracle
After a while everything you said became a haze Hurting you didn’t leave a trace
Well I was wondering about how strange all of my favourite writers are. So I made a list of 10 of the strangest facts I’ve ever read about them. And as it so happens, the list got pretty strange as soon as I started writing.
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