Book Review

  • A dark psychological thriller of copycat serial killers and a grieving widow auditing the secret life her husband left behind. My review of Book 1 in Natalie Michaels’ Copycat Killer series.

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  • A trans folk artist who staked everything: name, family, certainty and danced her way from a Bellary town to the Padma Shri. My review of Raghav Chinivar’s poignant first and last book.

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  • Some thrillers begin with a scream. What I Did begins with something far more unsettling – a woman standing in an airport, luggage in hand, trying very hard to look like she isn’t running away.

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  • I was twenty when I first opened The Glass Palace, and I am not sure I have ever entirely closed it since. There is a particular way of reading that belongs only to youth.

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  • Book Review: Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia M. Axline

    Some books find you exactly when you need them. Virginia Axline’s Dibs in Search of Self is the quiet, luminous account of a withdrawn little boy who slowly unfolds through play therapy it reached somewhere deep.

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  • Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a love story that refuses to call itself one – a novel about games, grief, creativity, and the people we can’t live without.

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  • Book Review: The Song of Our Bond

    There is a particular kind of friendship that only the 70s and 80s seem to have produced. The kind built entirely on proximity, on shared afternoons with no agenda, before phones made distance feel optional. The Song of Our Bond by Pinki Bakshi is a tribute to exactly that kind of friendship

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  • There’s something instantly compelling about stories set in old schools with quiet libraries, hidden histories, and ghosts who refuse to leave. When June Haunts May by Celaine Charles brings all these elements together in a heartfelt young adult paranormal story that balances mystery, friendship, and emotional healing surprisingly well. The story follows May Blakely, a…

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  • Crooked Tales: The Rising opens with Crooked House – a decaying, malevolent place teeming with dark spirits who hunger for control over everything and everyone within their reach. From the very first pages, author Chris Harrison establishes a suffocating atmosphere that makes the house feel like a living, breathing entity, one that is patient, cunning,…

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  • We all know Blinkit. I always feel that if you need something urgently, just BLINK and IT will be here. When we moved to Mumbai almost two years ago, I was not very familiar with this “ten-minute” livery system. For me, ordering groceries online meant waiting for it to reach to you. So, if i…

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