Tag: #reading

• Book Review : Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

  

  Three days in bed, recovering from minor surgery, and one good thing came of it- I finally finished ‘Pachinko’ by author, Min Jin Lee. The 480-page book took me a very long time to complete. In between, I read Preeti Shenoy’s ‘Rule Breakers’ which was a quick read and began Viktor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for […]

  Smitha V

  July 26, 2022

  Book Review

  #book, #familysaga, #goodread, #history, #informative, #japaneseculture, #Koreanculture, #lengthyread, #literature, #MinJinLee, #Pachinko, #reading, #review, #tragic, #War, #worldwar2

• Book Review : The Rule Breakers by Preeti Shenoy

  

  I would love to get a novel published one day. And the best way to make that dream come true is a) to get writing and b) to do a lot of reading. Reading ‘Rule Breakers’ was me doing ‘b’. Why Preeti Shenoy? Because, she is a veteran (not by age) in the field of […]

  Smitha V

  May 26, 2022

  Book Review

  #arrangedmarriages, #authorinthemaking, #bookreview, #education, #homosexuals, #preetishenoy, #quickread, #reading, #shortread, #speakup, #therulebreakers

• Unearthing Mumbai’s Treasures

  

  A little over a month back, my husband and I decided to explore a restaurant, called Cafe Madras in Matunga, a quiet residential area in Mumbai. Matunga is home to Parsis, Gujaratis and Tamilians…mostly. Until I came to Mumbai, I had no idea how different communities preferred to reside in certain areas of the city. […]

  Smitha V

  October 1, 2021

  Experiences, Travel

  #books, #cafemadras, #explore, #inspiration, #life, #matunga, #mumbaidiaries, #offthebeatentrack, #reading, #tuesdayswithmorrie

• Book Review: WATCHING GLASS SHATTER by JAMES CUDNEY

  

  I am as slow a reader as one can be. So, when I received book 1 of James Cudney’s family drama series, I looked at the number of pages and said I would need at-least 10 days to read it. But it took me three! ‘Watching Glass Shatter’ by James Cudney is a page turner. […]

  Smitha V

  September 20, 2020

  Book Review

  #book, #familydrama, #interestingread, #jamescudney, #lockdowndiaries, #reading, #review, #watchingglassshatter

• My ‘littlest’ fan loves me more than he loves Rusty!

  

  I had gone to pick my younger daughter from school, after lunch with a few friends. It was one of those ‘girls’ day out’ fun afternoons. How we became friends is because we all have a kid studying in the same class. But our kids are not friends’ with each other. We’ve chosen to be […]

  Smitha V

  August 29, 2019

  Experiences, Poetry

  #dedicated, #diary, #experience, #kids, #littlefan, #newbook, #newpost, #parenting, #poems, #readers, #reading, #weeklypost, Experiences, My diary, Poetry