” We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive.” We Were Liars is a debut novel by E.Lockhart set majorly around the Sinclair family and their private island. It is a modern suspense thriller. On the level above, as a reader, the story appears to be simple and straight, narrated by the…
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Book Review 31 – Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling, short for Vera Mindy Chokalingam is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director. She was born to Indian immigrants and has led an obedient life as a child. Since childhood, she has loved the world of comedy and has spent hours and hours of performances. She always wanted to be in comedy…
Book Review 30 – The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
‘The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared’ is the debut novel of Jonas Jonasson, a Swedish journalist, and writer. I started reading this book last year in 2018 but for some reason could not go through with it. So this year as a part of the reading challenge “read a…
Book Review 28 – The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Rosie Project has become a sensation in the reading world due to its oddly charming and witty storytelling. The narrative follows an emotionally and socially challenged genetics professor who takes up the project of finding a suitable wife, with the help of a carefully crafted questionnaire. On his search, he meets a woman who…
Book Review 27 – Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.” Sharp Objects is the debut novel by the famous author of ‘Gone Girl,’ Gillian Flynn. In this book, the author explores family dynamics, the relationship between a mother and her daughters, and how certain people have so much darkness hidden in the…
Book Review 23 – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Two novels old, Celeste Ng has beautifully created a home for small family dynamics, forming beautiful yet complex stories. Little Fires Everywhere is a novel about families, however big and small have their own way of loving each other, with their own past and complexities. It’s a story about human relations which are so obscure…
Book Review 22 – Ikigai : The Japenese Secret To A Long And Happy Life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver and Francesc Miralles
So let’s start with what IKIGAI means. IKIGAI means – Finding the meaning of one’s life. The happiness of always being busy. Reason for our being. Reason why we get up in the morning. The book is 10% about Ikigai and 90% of different things to do to make you live longer. Some of us…
Book Review 20 – Camino Island by John Grisham
The story begins with a heist at the renowned Firestone Library of the Princeton University. Five people plan and miraculously execute the robbery of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original manuscripts from the secure vault of the library. Within a day or two, the FBI takes into custody two of the members. Out of the remaining three,…
Book Review 19 – Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
Our Chemical Hearts is a young adult fiction novel written by Krystal Sutherland. It is a typical high school story with not so typical characters and then the not so evident emotions of their hearts. When I started reading the novel I had a pre-assumed notion of what kind of a high school romance it…
Book Review 18 – Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a J. K. Rowling)
When I first read the Cormoran Strike series back in 2017, I really started liking JK Rowlings’s detective narrative. Lethal White is the fourth book in the series, after The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career Of Evil, which the author writes under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. The novel starts with the wedding of Strike’s…
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