Reading challenge is a challenge that basically challenges your ability of reading. It makes you read more in a year and it expands the diversity of reading. In 2019, I took only Goodreads challenge and i finished it. To have a goal to read a particular book makes you more efficient in reading. So in 2020, I have decided to participate in a few reading challenges as well as book clubs. The book clubs and reading challenges that I’m going to participate in 2020 are below. TBR Pile Reading Challenge This challenge is created by Rick through his bookstagram account. The Rules are: 1. P ..read more

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi In this poignant and melancholic memoir, paul kalanithi asks an important question to the reader. ‘What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?‘ As I read the book, I realised a thing. This isn’t a book about dying. This is a book that records the journey of a man who’s dying but couldn’t do anything about it. This is a book that documents the changes and other realization he faces during this journey. Paul quotes, ‘There is a moment, a cusp when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wi ..read more

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies is my second Moriarty book and I liked it better then the first one (The Husband’s Secret). The author weaves a women-centred story with a multitude of characters and has done a wonderful job. The book is written in layers. Superficially we can see helicopter parenting, women-hating other women for no particular reason, working mom vs stay at home moms and all other things. But in its deep layer, we can see domestic violence, bullying and struggles of a woman accepting the ageing process. The story revolves around three women Madeline, Celest ..read more

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THE CURSE OF ANUGANGA BY HARINI SRINIVASAN Title: The Curse of Anuganga Author Harini Srinivasan Publication: TreeShade Books No. of Pages: 296 Blurb: (as in goodreads) Circa 403 C.E. India. In the thriving city of Nanivardhana, lives Shaunaka, a young man who yearns to go to Pataliputra to see the world and make his fortune. But he is forced to join his father’s jewellery making business and soon finds himself in the workshop a job in which his heart clearly did not lie. Thankfully, along comes distraction in the form of two extravagant weddings royal nuptials at the palace ..read more

The Girl in the Tree Author: Şebnem İşigüzel  Translated by: Mark David wyers Publication: Amazon Crossings Book type: E-ARC received from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review. Blurb (as in NetGalley): A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story ..read more

When I started to do book reviews, I was clueless. I didn’t know what to consider and what not to consider while writing a review. Then I started my research on writing a book review and I read a lot of reviews by my favourite book bloggers and some on bookstagram. After a lot of efforts, now I have an okay-ish format of reviewing a book. My Review includes, A short introduction of the book Blurb (as in goodreads or amazon) My Review – where I will be sharing my opinions about the book Would I recommend this book? My Rating Please note that whatever opinions I am sharing here are my ow ..read more

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty This is my first book by Liane Moriarty and I should say that I am not excited. I bought this book after reading the blurb. It was so intriguing and fascinating. But as soon as I started reading this book, I lost interest. The thing that doesn’t work out for me are the characters. The characters are lame and trapped in their head. When you read further you will know why! Cecilia thinks that her life is in an orderly manner and when she reads that forbidden secret letter, her life is not in order anymore. She takes a thing and keeps on going over th ..read more

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s a voice, another’s soul.” Joyce Carol Oates I am Jayasri and I call myself “The not-so critical book critic”. I hail from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. I like reading and my journey with books started at a tender age. I always wanted to do something with books and when I found book blogging, I jumped on it. This blog is my attempt to talk to various people in the virtual world about books. I will be posting my reviews and recommendations on this site along with my opinions. And with each ..read more

The Girl in the Tree Author: Şebnem İşigüzel  Translated by: Mark David wyers Publication: Amazon Crossings Book type: E-ARC received from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review. Blurb (as in NetGalley): A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story ..read more