May 2020 Books Vs Moods

This has been another strange month. My blogging has been in sporadic spurts of posts followed by silence. After many iterations of that process, I have higher hopes for the month of June, especially since it is usually when I do a couple of memes. My post for the last month was: April 2020 Books Vs…

Giant by Mikael

  This was a graphic novel with very evocative artwork. Some pages had more colour than others. It is a stark, realistic take on the lives of Irish immigrants who came to work in a growing city that offered them labour in return for fostering dreams of making it big. The skyscrapers of NYC form…

All We Buried by Elena Taylor

I read this book a couple of days ago. On that day, I updated my list, was organized and felt pleased with myself. When I checked today, I realized that it was at the beginning of the week, and since then, I have done next to nothing on the blog. In our new normal I…

We Know It When We See It by Richard Masland

It was the tagline that got me interested in reading this book. I took an elective in my undergrad, which focused on Neural Networking, and I remember loving the course and for once taking great notes( despite not being able to recollect most of the content now). I leant it to a junior immediately after…

The Bastard Is Dead by D’Arcy Kavanagh

I must say that I was not very comfortable with the title of the book and almost did not request it. The storyline promised something different, so I overcame my initial apprehension and picked it up. I still do not like the title but the book, on the other hand, was quite entertaining. Paul Burke…

The Long Farewell by Michael Innes

I have read and enjoyed one previous work by the author, Death on a Quiet Day, and I was happy to try another by the author. After my last read, I was a little apprehensive when I saw how much the first chapter leaned into Shakespeare. My next to nothing knowledge on the topic made me…

The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin

Some time ago, I started a page with the recommendations Kate @ Cross Examining Crime and requested a lot of books from my library (8 is the limit, but I am ignoring that for the glory of an exaggeration). This was the first that I managed to get my hands on. Quite understandably, it has been…

Solving Sophronia by Jennifer Moore

This is a very promising start to a five-book series. I picked it up in between my other reads because I wanted something quick and relatively sweet and straightforward. I got what I was looking for. We meet Sophie, who has ideas beyond what her society allows. She is artistic and uses that art to…