It's been a while since this blog was last active, and a lot has happened in this period. A personal loss, a pandemic, the Olympics. Did...

When was the last time you tried to write something, with a pen or pencil? Did it feel harder than you expected it to be? If so, then you a...

Sometimes a story has the ability to teach us about a country, an uprising, a revolution. Dr. Zhivago is one such book by Boris Pasternak,...

The Yearling is a book that gets down to the very basic needs of a person – food, water, love and companionship. In a world dominated by s...

Finding an entry for X is never easy in an A to Z Challenge! It was the same this time too, and I’ve finally settled upon Xala, a novel tr...

Sometimes you come across a book that just consumes you. You start reading, and before you know it, you are inside it, living with the cha...

In most stories, there are some elements that you can’t do without. A protagonist, an antagonist, lots of supporting characters and of cou...