2022 Long List V: Highlights of my Blogging Year

I started to make this post when I noticed some of these were interesting, and they did not fit into my Mega Stats. It is also a last-ditch effort to talk about books/reviews I enjoyed this year before it becomes literally old news. I hope you get as much fun out of looking at these,…

Long List IV: Thrilling and Restless Reads

My last year's post was 2021 Long List IV: Thrilling and Restless reads. In my aim to collect all the recommendations from my reads of the year, this is the last of the mood-read lists. These are books that have an ambience that lends itself to some impatience on the part of the reader. This is…

2022 Long List III: Cozy reads of varying gravity

My post under this heading last year was: 2021 Long List III: Cozy reads of varying gravity I find making lists a good way to wrap up any given year. This year, I have already reached the third of my compilation of books read this year. These titles are usually the ones I am able to…

2022 Long List II:Series’ I started or Continued

As I wrap up my blog posts for the year, this particular list is quite close to my heart. I can iterate multiple times without any issues that I love books that are part of a series (obviously, the individual books have to be good). My post for the last year was: 2021 Long List…

2022 Long List I: Inspirational and/or Informational

Another year and I have reached four years of making this list! My long list for this particular topic last year was: 2021 Long List I: Inspirational and/or Informational. Non-fiction and some kinds of fiction fall under these categories. These are books that I for something out of, more than just the sheer enjoyment of reading…

December 2022 Books Vs Moods

This is my standard month-end post which I usually post on the very last day, but given that I usually have big plans for the end of the year, this post is all set to go now. I have been travelling this December, and I had high hopes that I could schedule a lot of…

The Case of the Sleepwalker’s Niece (Perry Mason #8) by Erle Stanley Gardner

I let my kindle unlimited subscription languish for a while. One fine day when I was in the mood again, I refreshed the entire queue and chose a fresh set of books/audiobooks to read/listen to. I have since let it sit again (maybe the writing of this review might help in some form). This book…

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

This is a story that requires some amount of patience to appreciate. It is entirely unique in its presentation of a family of two being tossed around by thoughts that they are unable to control but that control their ultimate behaviour.The mother and son duo have lost the thread that held their tiny family together.…