American as Paneer Pie by Supriya Kelkar

I am not a teenage girl, and I was not born in a country where my forefathers (and mothers) could not trace they ancestry back to, but there was something so relatable about this book that I read it in almost one stretch, wanting to see it all the way through. The one bias I…

The Address Book by Deirdre Mask

Truth be told, it was proven to me once again that you should not make audacious claims openly, written or verbal. The minute I finished typing out the first paragraph of my previous review about having to collectively write multiple posts and schedule them (and I truthfully mean precisely the very minute), I got a…

Elephants by Tom Jackson

Just like the last book by the same publishers:  I really relished this. The content is quite straightforward, it is essentially some great high definition pictures of Elephants put together in a relevant fashion. These photographs are accompanied by some salient features of Elephants and other tidbits of interesting facts. There is majesty in these…

The Switch by Beth O’Leary

I have read and reviewed the author's previous work: here This is a class above the author's previous work (which I also enjoyed). In an earlier review, I debated how many ways older women, paired with a younger person (in that case, it was a child) could teach each other about the joys of life.…

Regrow Your Veggies Growing Vegetables from Roots, Cuttings, and Scraps by Melissa Raupach, Felix Lill

I chipped away at a lot of my books a chapter at a time,, so I ended up with a lot of books done on almost consecutive days and have therefore a ton of reviews to write. Hopefully, they will maintain a distinct voice and all just blur together First, we have a book that…

The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman

There were a few things that had me picking up the book even before I read the plot or looked up the author. The cover and the fact that it is the first of a new cozy historical mystery series. I expected to like it, but by the time I set it aside, having read…

Hotel Du Jack And Other Stories by Dan Brotzel

I waffled quite a bit, back and forth with a lot of points for either idea about expanding on individual stories or writing an all-encompassing review. The latter plan gained more traction when I started listing out personal one line reactions and realised it would involve me saying more than the book does during a…

Radical Spirits by Nandini Patwardhan

I have been so fidgety the last week or two that I read one chapter each of a lot more books than I usually read simultaneously. I kept it up, hoping to break the barrier at some point and start finishing them (one at a time). As most other ardent readers would acknowledge, the boost…