All day long, I kept telling myself, hey, you really need to sit down and write that review. And then instead, I did laundry. And I emptied the dishwasher. I went to the gym. I caught up on The Good Wife. I did pretty much EVERYTHING I could think of. But there … [Read more]
People disappeared. Not everyone, not even a majority, but enough around the world that it was noticed. Some believe it’s the Rapture, others simply calling it a rapture-like event but not actually THE Rapture; no matter what you believe happened, there was no way to deny that it did indeed … [Read more]
I feel like I should like Arthur C. Clarke more than I do. I understand that he … [Read more]
This is a book that I have wanted to read since 2006. When I was in Nagpur in 2008, I purchased it from a road side second-hand book stall and the book stayed on my 'to-read' list for more than 5 years! I finally got down to reading it thanks to the … [Read more]
Orange Is the New Black is the memoir by Piper Kerman that has been turned into the popular Netflix series of the same name. As the novel begins Kerman is a recent Smith college graduate who longs to … [Read more]
The Night Guest is hard to categorise - it's both a taut thriller and an altogether close-to-home examination of dementia and loneliness, written with a wonderful sense of pacing and language. Although the main plot deals with an elderly lady accepting a stranger into her home and life, the most … [Read more]
