Convenience Store Woman is a Japanese novel revolving around a 36 year woman named Keiko who finds solace in her work at a convenience store, much to the chagrin of her family and friends who worry about her. Keiko started working in the convenience store after university, though her family tried to ‘fix’ her up with better job prospects. The convenience store resonates persona while the store becomes her whole life. It is such that she starts mimicking the speech patterns of her colleagues and identifies that as her reality. Working for 18 years in the store, Keiko settles in …
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#Book Review: I’ve Never Been (Un) Happier by Shaheen Bhatt
Have you ever felt low and have you been ridiculed for saying it out loud ? I had lost my mother when I was 7 years old and my father has practically raised my elder brother and me single handedly. It has been a long journey of loneliness, struggles and sacrifices. After I moved out from Kolkata to Mumbai my father would often tell me about feeling low and sad. Since, I was too busy in my personal and professional life I HARDLY DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT other than being a patient listener. Things were still normal when he was …
SPOOKY READ FOR HALLOWEEN #Book Review : SHEETS by Brenna Thummler
I have been fascinated about Halloween ever since my best friend Rina started sending me pictures of her Halloween decor from the U.S. Though the celebration was foreign to me as traditionally we celebrate Diwali and Kali puja, I was fascinated by the spooky lamps carved out of pumpkins and the celebration of darkness with so much fun and frolic. This is the beautiful time of the year when fall sets in. We book lovers look for recommendations to travel in to world of fantasies, darkness, ghosts and ghouls and yearn to delve into the world of mysticism. While I …
5 Reasons for book lovers to participate in Readathons
“ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss Books have always been my indispensable friend, loyal companions, warm comforters and a true saviour. I can never imagine a life without books. People say reading is a habit which you inculcate over time. However, people like us who wander the universe through the stories consider books as the elixir of their lives. Loving books and reading them voraciously are two different things and The Reading Rush Readathon taught me that which was held between …
Book Review : Ba’az of the Bengal Lancers By Uttiyo Bhattacharya
Debut novel, Ba’az of the Bengal Lancers written by Uttiyo Bhattacharya has been set on the premise of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. Bayazuddin Ali Khan aka ‘Ba’az the Bungalee’ served as a scribe for the British and reported to Captain Hodson. Around the same time Bahadur Shah Zafar is taken captive by British and his sons are shot dead by Captain Hodson. Ba’az becomes the sole guardian of a priceless treasure which he intends to share with his three close friends- Akbar, Abdullah and Iqbal. As the events unfold Ba’az loses his friends. Unsure of what to do with …