Bookishstephy
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I always loved reading books but never thought of reviewing it. Whenever a book emerges to my expectations and gets added to my favourite category, I used to share that with my friends.
Bookishstephy
2y ago
Title : Mr Penumbra’s 24hr Bookstore
Author: Robin Sloan
Genre : Novel
Good reads rating 3.7
Everything in Short
This is a marvelous story that weaves together a clueless guy, a strange bookstore, a secret Organisation, and their quest.
The story in brief & My Review
Clay Jannon is a designer who is currently jobless due to recession, so he settled down to work as a night clerk at Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore. The Bookstore is strange in some way, also are the books and the customers. The store runs 24 hours but, it hardly has any customers.
The books available there are ..read more
Bookishstephy
2y ago
Title: The Gun
Author: Fuminori Nakamura
Goodreads Rating :
The GUN BY FUMINORI NAKAMURA
Translated from the Japanese by Allison Powell
Blurb
The Gun is the story of a college student, Nishikawa, who became obsessed with a Gun which he stole. Nishikawa came across the gun while he was strolling aimlessly on a rainy night, lying near a body drenched in blood.
Review
The Gun is the story of a college student, Nishikawa, who became obsessed with a Gun which he stole. Nishikawa came across the gun while he was strolling aimlessly on a rainy night, lying near a body drenched in blood. The sig ..read more
Bookishstephy
3y ago
Short stories occupy a special place in my heart. They are special because they convey complex ideas in few pages and leaves me perplexed for days. Novels are different, they enjoy the luxury of length.
Talking about perplexing stories, the first one that comes to my mind is The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. This satirical short story may seem to be utter nonsense at first look.
“This world is full of the most outrageous nonsense. Sometimes things happen which you would hardly think possible.”
Like it’s said in the above quote, the story I mentioned is also about something that we would think impossi ..read more
Bookishstephy
3y ago
Reading is therapeutic; I am sure that no one would ever disagree with me on that. But we are living in a cacophonic world, and to enjoy something in such an atmosphere is a mission almost impossible.
Try reading your favorite book in a noisy environment; an imaginary hammer is waiting there to bang on you.
I am not sure about how others feel about this; it’s difficult for me. I won’t be able to read for long while staying at a place where car honks are being played continuously, as in a musical workshop. Shh….I too get curious, when I hear the snippets of conversation on matters that would n ..read more
Bookishstephy
3y ago
Author : Brit Bennet
Genre : domestic fiction
Goodreads rating : 4.25
Blurb : From Goodreads
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even se ..read more
Bookishstephy
3y ago
Title : Cobalt Blue
Author : Sachin Kundalkar
Genre : Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating : 4/5
How far will distance affect the closeness between two people?
Sometimes people can stay together in the same room for years, not really knowing each other. The proverb quotes that Face is the index of mind, yeah, it’s true. However hard we try to hide our feelings, our face always betrays us. But is that enough to know what a person is going through? Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar is a tale that inspects this aspect of human minds.
Cobalt Blue, written in Marathi and translated to English by Je ..read more
Bookishstephy
3y ago
Title : A Gentleman In Moscow
Author : Amor Towels
Genre : Historical Fiction
Goodreads Rating : 4.34/5
Plot
Count Alexander Rostov is our Gentleman in this story. He is a gentleman in every way but unfortunately on an indefinite house arrest. The house in the house arrest is confined only to the name as he is locked in the famous Metropol Hotel.
The book set in the period after the Russian revolution is exploring the changes that happened in Russia over a period of more than 3 decades. It was not easy for the luxury-loving Count to find comfort in the attic, his new room. So when Russia ..read more
Bookishstephy
4y ago
Title: City Of Bones
Author: Cassandra Clare
Genre: Fanatasy
Series : Mortal Instrument Series(#1)
Goodreads Rating: 4.1/5
This is a fantasy book that I have read after years. I made the decision to read it
after watching a series(Shadowhunters) based on the book.I believe that a book is always better than the screen adaptation, so I picked the book.
Story
City of Bones is the first book in the Mortal Instrument series. This book introduces Clary Fray, a 15-year old girl, who is having an ordinary life which she is trying to enjoy with her mother and best friend Simon. She never had any id ..read more
Bookishstephy
4y ago
Title: The Guardians
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Legal Thriller
Goodreads Rating : 4.1/5
The Guardians is my first John Grisham read. This book is a legal thriller.
This story draws its background from the fact that being convicted doesn’t necessarily mean that one is a criminal.
Story
The story follows Cullen Post, who is a lawyer and a priest, and works in an organisation that engages in exonerating wrongfully convicted people. The book focuses mainly on the case of Quincy Miller. Miller was sentenced to life without parole 22 years ago for the murder of Keith Russo, a lawyer. The fact ..read more
Bookishstephy
4y ago
Title : The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Author : Hiro Arikawa
Originally written: Japanese
Genre : Domestic Fiction
Goodreads Rating: 4.28/5
“It’s not the journey that counts, but who’s at your side.“
Blurb
Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn’t know why and Satoru won’t say.
Review
I can’t put all my favourites for a reread. But this one definitely deserves another read.
The Travelling Ca ..read more