In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow. Papiha Ghosh Childhood is the golden age of one’s life. Each one of us cherish our childhood memories, when life was carefree and simple, and we did not need any reasons to laugh and giggle. But as we grew up, we forgot what it was like to laugh without a reason, and to forgive and forget. We became ‘mature’, and reasoned that since we live in a society, we need to conform to a certain way of living. We became increasingly conscious of others’ views about us, and in order to ple ..read more

Title: The Psychology of Money Author: Morgan Housel Genre: Non-fiction, Psychology Publish Date: Sep 18, 2020 # of Pages: 252 Rating: 4.5/5 (Goodreads) Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. How to manage money, invest it, and make business decisions are typically considered to involve a lot of mathematical calculations, where data and formulae tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world, people don’t make f ..read more

The end of an year and the beginning of a new one always puts me in a reflective mood – things that went well, things that went not so well. While I believe in looking forward and not backward, sometimes it can be an amazing thing to loo back and ponder upon the lessons we can take forward, put a meaning to all the experiences – good or bad. 2021 has been an year of unprecedented changes for me, and it has been a roller coaster ride. There are certainly things I would like to take forward with me, and penning them down would maybe help me remember them when needed. #1: Not everything needs to ..read more

Title: The Push Author: Ashley Audrain Genre: Psychological Thriller Publish Date: January 5, 2021 # of Pages: 307 Rating: 4.5/5 A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared. Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughte ..read more

Title: The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1) Author: Tasha Suri Genre: Fantasy, LGBT>Lesbian, Romance Publish Date: June 8, 2021 # of Pages: 533 Rating: 4.5/5 Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother. Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Mal ..read more

Title: Home Before Dark Author: Riley Sager Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery Publish Date: June 30th, 2020 # of Pages: 384 Rating: 4.5/5 (Goodreads) What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent s ..read more

On 17th March 2020, I published my first post on My Bookish Banter. That means, it has been a little more than AN ENTIRE YEAR since I started this blog! This small corner I started as a hobby and an outlet for my bookish thoughts is now officially an year old. Its been an amazing year – full of amazing reads, bookish friends, and new learnings. I am proud to have stuck with this for an entire year, even if I haven’t been so regular for the past few months. How it Started… When everyone around me was starting their quarantine projects and I was spending every waking minute not spend on office w ..read more

Look who’s back! Its been quite some time since I last wrote, and although I never planned to take a hiatus from blogging so suddenly and for so long, sometimes life does get in the way. But I am getting back to blogging now (hopefully) and I am eagerly looking forward to it!! Moreover, I am pleasantly surprised and deeply grateful and to see that my blog views haven’t dwindled to nothing? Thank you so much to all of you who have still considered my little bookish nook worthy of your time So what have I been up to in the last few months? Well, for starters, I am busy planning my wedding, whic ..read more

Title: Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life Author: Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas Genre: Nonfiction Publish Date: February 2, 2021 # of Pages: 272 Rating: 4.5/5 (Goodreads) Anyone–even you!–can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Working professionals have fallen off a humor cliff. In fact, around the time we enter the workforce, the number of times we laugh and smile on an average day statistically starts to plummet. And yet, research ..read more

Title: The Cousins Author: Karen M. McManus Genre: Mystery Thriller, YA, Contemporary Publish Date: December 1, 2020 # of Pages: 336 Rating: 3.5/5 (Goodreads) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying comes your next obsession. You’ll never feel the same about family again. Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each another, and they’ve never even met their grandmother. Rich and reclusive, she disinherited their parents before they were born. So when they each receive a letter inviting them to work at her island reso ..read more