At the end of any book, I am usually happy or sad, or crying or being excited about my next read. But this book, this story, this man who I met on these pages made me contemplate for a long, long time, contemplate on love, on grief, on death, and on life in general. When…
To read is to travel someplace else – a book is it’s most beautiful medium! – World Book Day Reading List.
World Book Day is also known as World Book and Copyright Day, or International Day of the Book. It is an annual event, organised by UNESCO to promote reading and publishing. Reading is a very important part of my life and books are a feeling of joy that nothing else brings. Every year there are…
Book Review 15 – Landline by Rainbow Rowell
“You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten – in fifteen.” Landline is a novel written…
Book Review 14 – Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid
A story of two best friends – Dave and Julia experiencing high school, and making a “never” list. The list is not to do all the cliché high school things that a typical American teenager does. Not going to parties, not having a fixed lunch spot, not running for prom king/queen, are among the few….
Once a child, always a child! International Children’s Book Day – Reading List
Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books. Every year a different National Section of IBBY becomes the international sponsor for the event. It decides a theme and invites a well-known author from…
Book Review 13 – Jar Of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller
Jar Of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller is a psychological thriller spread across a night in high school, fast forwarded to fourteen years later. Three best friends, inseparable throughout high school, until a special someone, comes along. Popular Angela Wong disappears one night after a party. Nobody knows where she is apart from her best friend…
Poetry – An Emotion, Shared. (List of poetry books)
“Poetry is when an emotion has found it’s thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost It’s World Poetry Day today, and I am celebrating hundreds and thousands of poets from different eras and different walks of life, coming together in this special curated list of poetry books to soothe your soul. When…
Book Review 12 – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the famous poet Sylvia Plath. It is a semi-autobiographic novel as it partially tells the story of Plath’s own descent into mental illness. The novel’s…
Book Review 11 – Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella)
“For all the planning in the world, one could not govern one’s own fate.” Sleeping Arrangements is a novel by Sophie Kinsella writing as Madeleine Wickham. The plot is set in and around a holiday trip to Spain. The story surrounds the lives of two families who have never known of each other and are…
WOMEN’S DAY READING LIST
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas This women’s day lets celebrate the brave, the strong, the bold, the everyday women. Here’s a…
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