Powerless | Lauren Roberts| Book Review
In the kingdom of Ilya, only the elites with powers are allowed to stay. A plaque had hit the kingdom which left the people with magical powers as a side effect. But those who did not get the powers, were thought to carry a disease that would in time weaken the elites. Hence these powerless […]
More Days At the Morisaki Bookshop| Satoshi Yagisawa| Book Review
On Sakura street which is lined with bookshops selling old books, stands a bookshop named the Morisaki bookshop. As Takako walks down the street she hears her name being called loudly just as she sets her eyes on the shop. It is none other than her uncle, Satoru. She is embarrassed and tells him to […]
I had that same dream again| Yoru Sumino | Book Review
What is happiness? To one person it may mean something and to another, something completely different. A grade school child, Nanoka Koyanagi is given an assignment by her teacher,she sets out to find out about happiness and what it actually means to her. ‘I had that same dream again’ is a beautiful novel that takes […]
The Lemon Tree Cafe | Cathy Bramley | Book Review
The Lemon Tree cafe was a piece of Italy in England. It was run by an old lady who was headstrong and Independent. The café looked like an old lady’s kitchen with dark wooden furniture with mismatched chairs and old Italian posters. It was a soothing presence in the middle of the rolling hills of […]
Samsara| Saksham Garg| Book Review
‘Samsara’ is a story about a dangerous journey that Samsara’s souls have to undertake. Aman Chandra, along with the other souls and the child of the valley, has to train for a year to start this journey. For this very purpose, they are torn away from their families and transported to a hidden valley in the Himalayas […]
The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides | Book review
Introduction Alicia is a painter who lives with her fashion photographer husband, Gabriel. On the outside, you would say she is quite lucky that she has a perfect life, a caring husband by her side, and a budding career ahead. But, on a hot summer day in the month of August, as the temperatures soared […]
Don’t Believe Everything You Think | Joseph Nguyen| Book Review
‘Don’t believe everything you think’ is a book for the overthinkers, the anxiety prone individuals who suffer through their thoughts. It’s a practical guide for a life without despair. Thoughts are involuntary but thinking is optional. We encounter a lot of things in our lives that give us pain, but suffering is optional and how […]
Before the coffee gets cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Book Review
Introduction There is a café in Tokyo- Funiculi Funicula, in a small dark alley. A café that is so conspicuous that it is easy to miss. This café has been standing here for almost a decade, but it is not just coffee that attracts customers to this small café but also an old urban legend […]
To Sir Phillip with Love |Julia Quinn| Book Review|
A life of spinsterhood and spending a life alone is something that most ladies of the ton hated to even imagine and more so feared. From childhood, their mothers groomed them to become the most elegant and perfect women that any man would want to marry. Eloise had never made this the aim of her […]
The Forest of Enchantments| Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni| Book Review
The journey of an infant born from the earth to an empress of the great Ram Rajya. The forest of enchantments gives us a fresh point of view of the epic Ramayana retold in a voice that you least expected; the voice of Sita. This celestial heroine makes us smile, cry and above all experience […]