Spark by Naoki Matayoshi: Book Review

Spark is a short book about two comedians- Tokunaga and Kamiya and their life in comedy. It focuses on the manzai comedy of the Japanese culture- a kind of stand-up comedy involving two performers playing jokes in their mutual conversations. Tokunaga is an aspiring manzai comedian who wishes to make it big in his career, …

Three-Fifths by John Vercher: Book Review

Three-Fifths is an engaging thriller with sophisticated characters, well blended with general fiction, crime, and present time issues. It explores identity, racism, and class stereotypes. It’ll make one ponder on the effect of racism on families, and the appearance of identities. Bobby, a twenty-two-year-old biracial man, is hiding his identity since his childhood, for the …

I Know Your Secret by Ruth Heald: Book Review

Gosh, what a wonderful thriller it was. I realized I haven’t read a single thriller this year. In pursuance of reading all the kinds of books, I missed out on this genre. I Know Your Secret is an amazing psychological thriller told from two women, viewpoints- Beth and Danielle. The book follows both narratives, switching …

Interview with Beth Morrey

I read Saving Missy by Beth Morrey in March and extremely loved it. It is one of those books I’ll surely add to my most loved books of this year. I’m so thrilled to have Beth here on my blog. In this interview, Beth shares about how Saving Missy surfaced, her book publishing process, her …

Saving Missy by Beth Morrey: Book Review

Saving Missy is a pleasing story of a 79-year-old Millicent Carmichael, or Missy, who lives alone in her big owned house without her husband and children, her son Alistair and grandson Arthur had shifted to Australia and her daughter Melanie to Cambridge. She lives her isolated life, remembering her children and husband until she tripped …

How I choose books to read.

You’re looking for a book that reminds you why you read in the first place. One written well and that will feel like it was written just for you- one that will make you think about things in a new way, or feel things you didn’t expect a book to make you feel, or see …

Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth: Book Review

Jenny is thirty-five, an Instagram obsessed, social media freak, who spends a lot of time perfecting hashtags, filters for her next Instagram post, she frequently sends her posts for constant affirmation to her best friend Kelly. She’s a social maniac, insecure and uncertain of her real-life relationships, often giving comical responses to unsettling life situations. …

Normal People by Sally Rooney: Book Review

Love stories or romance is a genre that usually doesn’t please me, it could be because of the few not so good books I mistakenly read during my early reading years, which have had a very clumsy writing or amateurish words or sentences or a pointless plot that left me feeling so dismissive of this …

So Lucky by Dawn O’ Porter: Book Review

Beth, a new mother working as a wedding planner is struggling to keep her marriage where her husband is no more interested in getting intimate with her. Ruby had a tough time managing her three-year-old daughter, Bonnie after she got separated from her husband on the humiliation of her body hair. Lauren, a social media …

The Body Myth by Rheea Mukherjee: Book Review

Title: The Body Myth Author: Rheea Mukherjee Publisher: Penguin Hamish Hamilton Publishing Date: 25th June 2019 My Rating: 3 stars Links: Amazon Goodreads Instagram Twitter Facebook The body myth is about Polyamory, irksome, weird and yet still settled relationship of Mira, Sara, and Rahil. This threesome thing in the book will surely make many readers …