In the last three years, I have read a few books in historical fiction about the two World Wars. All I have felt is that war changes. It changes everything inside and outside – individuals, communities, relationships, hopes, and dreams. It shakes the core of a human soul. Last Christmas In Paris is a story…
It’s That Time Of The Year – Holiday Reading List
Winter holidays is something I have always waited for. I like the feeling of warmth wrapped up in blankets, reading my favourite books. I love watching the Hallmark Movies especially at this time of the year. There is joy all around. People are brimming with happiness and love for the festivities ahead. This year I…
Book Review 51 – Words In Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
‘Books, like lovers, mark and change us, and in turn, we mark and change them.’ Words In Deep Blue is a beautifully written young adult story of love and grief, life and death, and the magical power of words. It has won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for the Young Adult Literature category, the Gold…
Book Review 50 – The Secret Lives Of Color by Kassia St Clair
The Secret Lives Of Color by Kassia St Clair is a story about the history and importance of colors and how they came into existence. The project began with research conducted on something entirely different. Kassia was researching the 18th-century fashion when she came across interesting adjectives and nouns used to describe colors. This led…
Books With Numbers In The Title – Reading List
Numbers are fun when you start playing with them. They are mysterious and are a vital part of our lives in every way. We are surrounded by numbers everyday, everywhere. I have curated a list of 10 books that have the numbers 1 to 10 in their title. This list includes books from all the…
Book Review 49 – Postscript by Cecelia Ahern
It’s been 11 years since I read P.S. I Love You. At the time, I was young and naive and didn’t fully understand love and loss, but now after more than a decade older, life has taught a lot. Love means all the different things the Universe offers, and loss is when it takes something…
Book Review 48 – The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The Little Paris Bookshop was initially written in German and has recently been translated. Since the translation in English, it has become prevalent among the book reading community. The book is set in Paris along the Seine river, where you will be exposed to books, food, and wine. This is a story of lost love,…
Challenging the society – Dystopian Reading List
Dystopian novels provide some of literature’s most blatant cultural critiques. Reading about oppressive government regimes—or even a giant brain telepathically controlling an entire planet—stokes the fire in our souls. Witnessing citizens rebel against the status quo offers hope for the future, even if that rebellion proves unsuccessful. It is a work of fiction in which…
Book Review 47 – Pop Goes The Weasel by James Patterson
Pop Goes The Weasel is the 5th book in the Alex Cross series written by James Patterson. Though I have read his novels in the past, this is my first Alex Cross book. The story entails a cat and mouse chase between Alex and a murder, who is the most brutal and a duplicitous villain…
Book Review 46 – When We Collided by Emery Lord
Even constellations can see us now: we are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know. When We Collided by Emery Lord is set in a small town called Verona Cove. The story is about two teenagers falling in a summer romance and…
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