Book 2: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman As someone who has read Backman's entire oeuvre, I found this book underwhelming and lacklustre. At 448 pages, this is a long novel, even longer than its page count. The second instalment in the Beartown series, this book follows the story of Beartown's hockey club and its... Continue Reading →
Book 1: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy After having abandoned Instagram for posting my book reviews, I have found a new home for them here on my blog. While book-hopping a stray Internet comment recommended this Tolstoy novella to whoever might be reading to reconsider what it meant to be alive. I... Continue Reading →
I am writing this after eating a delicious bowl of steaming dal khichri and air-fried chicken. I have the day off on account of a public holiday so an expanse of time lays before me unclaimed, and the afternoon laziness has come over me. After a good meal, my emotions usually reside in the vicinity... Continue Reading →
A prophecy that doesn't come true is gibberish from the past. Along with other books, I am currently reading Exhalation by Ted Chiang. To put it loosely, it is a collection of science fiction short stories that also underscore the meaning of being human. In the story that I am reading presently, a corporation creates... Continue Reading →
After joining a virtual reading group, I went to an in-person, silent-reading group meeting where we sat in a park in the evening and read our chosen books in silence for an hour. I have been silently committing to reducing the time I spend in front of digital devices and trying to find ease, a... Continue Reading →
"they journeyed without Bible prophets burning bushes without signs on earth without signs from the heavens with the terrible consciousness that life is momentous" Joseph Brodsky
Things that happened: This week my horoscope said that I should not make myself so vulnerable to criticism that it becomes a wound, and this is why I still read the particular horoscope app because it provides much needed advice thrown away inside of a poignant and polite paragraph meant only for me. Yesterday, I... Continue Reading →
I am newly interested in glass bottles as a hobby. I wash the glass bottles that show obvious signs of re-use, dip them in warm water to remove the sticker, and finally scrub them with baking soda to remove all traces of who they used to be. Then, I dry them in the sun like... Continue Reading →
