A story about a person. A person regaling a story. A story embedded in a person. A person embedded within a story. Where would the story go if there were no characters? What would the characters do without plot or actions for them to do? One completes the other Read more...
THE SECRET LIFE OF ALBERT ENTWISTLE by Matt Cain is a contemporary fiction novel focusing on the life of a postman, our protagonist, Albert Entwistle, as he reconsiders his entire life while his retirement approaches Read more...
Katy Silver lost her soulmate. She doesn’t know how to live anymore. She doesn’t know what to do or what not to do without her guidepost, her mentor, her everything. Katy’s mother Carol is dead. The only thing Katy has left is the Read more...
Where did Benjamin Daniels go in the five minutes that his sister called him and informed him she would come over? Jess, trying to find respite from her old life, hopes to find a brief period of solace in her brother Ben’s Read more...
There is something peculiar about stories set in a European background. I’m convinced that Europe inspires a narrative style that follows a 'thought buried inside a thought that springs from another idea' format. Andre Aciman brought this to life in CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, which is Read more...
I cannot articulate what it is that THE ROAD TRIP brings new to the genre of romantic comedies. Sure it touches on some grave topics while being fluffy for the majority of the plot. Still, other than that, I cannot list anything wholly new or unique to this rendition Read more...
THE SECRET TALKER by Gelin Yan follows Qiao Hongmei, a deserter of the Chinese Military, to pursue a bigger and more expansive world. The thirst to have more drove her to elope her country with her English Professor. Years later, she is not so happy with Glen now, the Read more...
Even though CLOUD CUCKOO LAND is dedicated to bookkeepers and librarians of the past, present, and future, it is also for anyone who has spent time in a confined space with immense pressure and anxiety upon them. This book is Read more...
Nicholas Bell, a seventeen-year-old boy, is obsessed with The Extraordinaries, a superhero version of the make-believe place Nova City in our story. Having been in love with Shadow Star forever, Nicky has found interesting and rather sinister facts about the Extraordinaries since the first book,  Read more...
Jennifer Saint doesn’t waste much time establishing that this is not another Greek Myth Retelling where men take center stage. She sets up ARIADNE with stories where women take the hit for men's wrongdoings, how gods punish Read more...
Testimony from her daughter put Patricia "Patty" Watts in prison for Aggravated child abuse for five years. The story starts the day Patty is released. She and her daughter, Rose Gold, have seemingly made up, leaving the past behind them but have they forgiven each other for the crimes Read more...
I would be lying if I said this was a pleasant book to read. REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor shortlisted for The Booker Prize does not cut its readers any slack. It poses questions bluntly and counts on its reader to become uncomfortable and think over it. It expects Read more...
As colorful and wholesome the cover of this book looks, the inside of it is more colorful and wholesome and heart-warming. It is tough to come across a story nowadays that is so pure and innocent, and that exists just to give its readers a perfect time, and Read more...
As colorful and wholesome the cover of this book looks, the inside of it is more colorful and wholesome and heart-warming. It is tough to come across a story nowadays that is so pure and innocent, and that exists just to give its readers a perfect time, and Read more...
We rarely get to see the other side of the story. There are numerous gut-wrenching stories about the ill-treatment of the LGBTQ+ community, but I have never come across such a fine piece of high literary merit as UNDER THE Read more...
Galadriel, also known as Gal or El, is a wizard. She studies in a school called Schoolomance, the only deemed safe place for wizard kids to go to. But is it, though? A school which has mana-hungry (a term you’ll come to understand when you read Read more...
The narrator (that I believe is the neighborhood itself, collectively, and not an individual person) tells readers: It's in the telling of a tragedy that we sow the Read more...
Dhananjaya “Danny” Rajaratnam has been living in Australia illegally for 4 years now. He has masked his Sri Lankan accent. He has golden streaks in his hair. He starts his sentences with a loud “Look” and finishes with “I reckon” because he has Read more...
Kishor Rao
I'm an engineering student from India.
I love to read books that
add/contribute to my life, which makes
me become a better person. My favorite
genres are Literary and Domestic
fiction. My current favorite book is
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman.