My Novel Talks

 This book really got me out of the reading slump. I picked up so many books during that time, thinking that I'll be saved. Alas, they were ditched. Anyway, this book is so good and relatable. That's the charm of Narayan's work. There is not a single character with whom you can't relate and Malgudi just feels like a place you've lived all your life. The irony in his book though; the man's a savage XD. He made me search many words because I came across so many words that I didn't know the meaning of. Honestly, I'm the type of person who doesn't use a dictionary; usually, one just infers the meaning of a word from the sentence. However, with Narayan's work, you have to know the meaning of such words, trust me, these words give you the homely "Indian" vibe even if the language is anything but Indian (By this, I mean English wasn't originally used in daily life in India). Now, from my favorite stories: I actually liked all of them, but ...

 Started reading this book exactly a month ago, read some pages and then... I found myself in a reading slump. Anyway, I've now recovered and stayed up late last night to finish the book. First of all, this is a great book. I think everybody should read it.  The book revolves around a person who calls herself Bride. Through her we see horrific incidents happening to children of any gender. Personally I have never come across any child suffering from such trauma but I was very much aware about it. There are few people who would come forward to tell their stories. This book made me realize the many forms of crimes a person could inflict upon a child whose world should always be filled with innocence. Once this innocence gets destroyed it can never lead to happy adults because they're always tied to their past.  This was my first Toni Morrison book. I look forward to read more works. 

 Started reading the book ' Ghachar Ghochar' yesterday. One word: beautiful. It was a very short read but it was beautiful. I totally love the Indian essence the author has captured in this story. It is actually not an easy feat to portray that Indian-ness in English language, oh, it's a translated work..so kudos to the translator. The theme(s) of the novel is apparent, it's about the "rags to riches" story and the moral degradation that comes with it. The story also highlights concern over women but that's secondary....anyway I think everybody should read it and find out the meaning of 'ghachar ghochar' themselves. I was confused about the ending a lil bit but I think it can be interpreted by various readers in different ways. The 'blood in your hands' obviously indicates murder but it's not like commits murder rather by being silent in many matters..he must have crushed the Tuuvi lady and his own wife. If he had raised his voice again...

5th Feb 2021 Started this book today and nearly halfway through it. Well, I must say that I enjoyed the first part better than the sequel. Alice is certainly not back in Wonderland. She seems to be in another world and she is puzzled. I feel you Alice, surely things will become clearer by the end of the book. Umm..so I was veeery sleepy when I read the book for the first time and maybe that's why things weren't clearer..so I read it again. As a child I have always wondered if there is a world inside a particular stuff and Alice finds another world through a mirror and guess what? Everything is opposite of the 'real' world, even logic.  I usually say that there is no mutual understanding between me and poems but the poem at the very beginning was lovely, gave me Wordsworth vibes. There were two chapters that were amusing to me, the talking flowers and the looking-glass insects. As an adult, these things like flowers that could talk and butter-fly (literally a fly with bu...

This book was a very short read, took me around one day (the first day I picked up the book...slept like a baby after reading 10 pages)...well <shrug> that doesn't mean the book was boring. It usually takes me a while to get hooked to a book. I had always wanted to read this book because it's a classic children literature but then a full grown adult can read it too. Fun Fact: bought this book cuz the cover was sooo pretttyy and the sequel was included as well <cries>  I can picture myself reading this when I'm 60-70 year old haha. It is so adorable that the author Lewis Carroll just narrated this story to entertain a child he was so fond of and that child loved the story so much that she begged him to write it down, wow.  To some the story might seem non-sensical, as a bunch of creatures thrown together with no plot whatsoever but that just depends on the perception. In the very beginning Alice kept on complaining about her height, she went on as far as to say t...