Millennials would hate Barrington Jedidiah Walker (Barry), and the Gen Z's would call him a dinosaur like his grandson who banters with him. In Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman, Barry narrates what happens in his life from May 2010 to May 2011 while also recalling his life in Antigua, how he learned to live as a … Continue reading Book Review: Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Author: Deepika
'...a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.'
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Book Review: Woof!: Adventures by the Sea by Aparna Karthikeyan
That extra-friendly black-and-white dog I see at the beach every weekend, what does he do after humans leave? That reclusive brown dog I see at the tea stall, why does she prefer buns to biscuits? That senior white dog I used to see on my biking route, what is he doing now? Would he be … Continue reading Book Review: Woof!: Adventures by the Sea by Aparna Karthikeyan
Book Review: We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
The solar system in Erin Entrada Kelly's We Dream of Space consists of Cash, Fitch, Bird, and their parents. Who is the sun? Or rather, what is the sun? Isn't it supposed to be love? But the siblings feel they are just drifting in the vast, dark, cold expanse of the universe, like rogue planets. … Continue reading Book Review: We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
Book Review: A Velocity of Being
The dawn of our fast friendship was also a peculiar point in culture. Those were the early days of ebooks and the golden age of social media, when the very notion of reading -- of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual surrender to a cohesive thread of thought composed by another human being, through which your own … Continue reading Book Review: A Velocity of Being
Book Review: Heartburn by Nora Ephron
I wouldn't have discovered Nora Ephron's Heartburn if the awesome folks at The Bookshop, Jor Bagh Market, hadn't recommended it. At this point, after reading a bunch of books recommended by them, I knew that I might end up liking Heartburn as well, although the book's rating on Goodreads doesn't reflect my sentiment. I quite … Continue reading Book Review: Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Happy 7th Gotcha Day To Us!
“A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.”-- EB White It was 26-January-2014. She wasn't Anu Boo then. Just Anu. Her rough, thin fur betrayed her ribcage. There were quite a few bald … Continue reading Happy 7th Gotcha Day To Us!
The Year of Words
I wrote this piece for the Blog-a-Thon that happened at work. I was asked to write about 2020, and how I navigated the year. I am saving it here for posterity. In the end of March 2020, when the pandemic shed its cloak of mystery, appeared with fangs and all, and became almost palpable, I … Continue reading The Year of Words
Book Review: Love And Other Thought Experiments
...she took her ID and prepared herself for the retinal scanner. She wondered what the computer saw as the reader slid across her face. Pattern recognition or something more? Humans stared into each other's eyes for lifetimes, trying to gauge what the other was thinking, feeling. Will you be faithful to me? Will you be … Continue reading Book Review: Love And Other Thought Experiments
Of Reading and Other Demons
"I think of literature," she wrote, "as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up."-- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The reader in me surfaced in 2015. I was 28. It was the hardest year … Continue reading Of Reading and Other Demons
Book Review: Father of Lions
By the time he was eighteen, Imad had discovered an immutable fact: animals were better than people. The war was at his door, the ISIS waited to behead him, and he was cooped up in his house along with his wife, and a lot of children. And none of those predicaments perturbed Abu Laith (Imad). … Continue reading Book Review: Father of Lions
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