My rating: 4/5. I was a little skeptical about starting this book. The concept seemed nice enough – Mahabharata from Draupadi’s perspective – but I didn’t want to read a deviation without knowing the original story first (I just knew a few parts here and there). But I decided to try it out anyway, and …
Words from a book I last read six years ago. “Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?” It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her …
All of Calvin and Hobbes packed neatly in a box and presented to me on my 20th birthday. Thanks mom and dad! Things couldn’t get much better than this. You see, this isn’t just another comic strip. I’ve loved it long enough to have attached memories, and C&H memories are always fond ones. That adds …
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Time Traveler’s Wife embraces the ‘all timelines are one’ view of time travelling, the kind you find in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. So basically the past, present, and future is blended into one, and everything has already happened. …
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak My rating: 5 of 5 stars Everyone should have a book and I believe this is mine. I cannot claim that I’ve read a lot of novels, but among the ones that I have, no other book has moved me as much as The Book Thief. It might be …