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Who am I to judge a book written out of tortured life experience? I recently read Heather Morris’s “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” which is based on the experiences of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who survived the Holocaust. I never write book reviews, unless it’s fiction and is horribly well written or the opposite. Ha! The book …

Have you ever got a book hangover? I am having one as I write this blog post. Maybe it is normal, to feel melodramatic and thoughtful, to scrutinize some aspects of the book and the fates of its characters. Maybe a soulful book is supposed to make you suffer from a kind of withdrawal. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak could make anyon…

My ever favorite book will always be Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’, but it's not much of a “life-changing book”. Now literature and its purpose may not be very deep-dwelling for people who don’t take an interest in literature. Because its not just the self- help books that teach us, stories can also maneuver a reader’s life. I…

Reading   Little Women  is like taking a stroll through the New England countryside. A classic, this book can be shelved in different slots -bildungsroman, semi-autobiography, children's literature, and even in feminist studies. The novel is oozing with maternal and sisterly warmth, it can be called the "Book of Tenderness&…

I sit smiling staring at the happy leaves waving Coconuts hanging leaves tight like tiny pony tails Happy branches wet and weary cleaning deep rugged skin I watch with warm dry eyes with rainy scene inside All the dancing coconut call me out a dozen in each dozen But I sit smile and stare at the happy leaves waving

Has anyone ever felt that? Reading as a solitary thing, a lonely affair in which you are physically alone but mentally with the characters or ideas in the book? …