A Meditation on Choice Before Choice Dissolves Prelude: Platform of Shadows This was many moons ago. The evening train from Guwahati was late. Again. And I, an untidy pilgrim of words, shuffling from one foot to the other, had time enough to count the creases on my battered paperback and the muted LEDs breathing within … Read more
A Short History of Nearly Everything In Bill Bryson’s Popular Book Turns the Lab Notebook into a Lantern of Wonder 1. a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-review opens the cosmic attic A Short History of Nearly Everything begins, not with thunder, but with a gentle knock on the door of the universe. Bill Bryson wonders how “something” arrived from “absolutely … Read more
Chronicles of a Matrilineal Kingdom’s Last, Long Echo.. There are books one reads, and there are books one walks into, like rain-soaked courtyards where memory clings to the squared stones. It was not a railway waiting room that first introduced me to Manu S. Pillai. It was a room lined with books. A cup of … Read more
When a Pen Becomes a Sword How this Yellowface review Slashes Through the Veil of Stories, Identity, and the Silent Hunger to Belong There are books that whisper. There are books that weep. And then there are books like R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, a novel that carves through the soft flesh of the literary world with a … Read more
The Quiet Art of Becoming: A Deep Dive into Haruki Murakami’s Novelist as a Vocation How a baseball game, a stubborn dream, and a mind full of “automatic dwarves” built a literary world unlike any other. There are writers who arrive with the noise of a brass band, pages flapping like banners in the wind.And … Read more
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan – A Poetic Journey Through Memory How my Birthday Gift Opened the Door to the Mind of a Legend Introduction: A Gift Wrapped in Silence On my birthday last year, a dear friend, a music aficionado whose knowledge could rival any seasoned producer, placed a carefully wrapped gift into … Read more
A Bookshop of Second Chances Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and the Quiet Rebellion of Hope In the heart of Tokyo, where alleys coil like threads of forgotten stories, there stands a bookshop that smells of old paper and second chances. It is cramped. Dusty. The kind of place where books lean on each other … Read more
Stillness Among the Shelves: 9 Reasons Why We Still Need Bookshops in the Digital Age At first light, the city yawns open like an old novel. Rusted milk vans rattle past shuttered shops. Pigeons take the air in soft explosions of grey. A bookstore, still sleeping under its corrugated awning, dreams of pages and fingerprints … Read more
11/22/63 Book Review Prologue: The Diner and the Doorway A tired neon sign hums above Al’s diner. Grease pops; a jukebox wheezes; a slice of pie cools beside a Formica counter that has known every shade of midnight. And in the pantry, hidden behind sacks of Idaho potatoes, waits a staircase that doesn’t belong. Step … Read more
15 Quiet Epiphanies — Kane and Abel Book Review 1. Kane and Abel Book Review & the Miracle of Simultaneity Two infants, two hemispheres, one tick of the cosmic metronome: 18 April 1906. William, swaddled in Boston lilac; Władek, cradled by Galician birch roots. That shared dawn thrums like a tuning-fork through the whole novel. … Read more