Top Ten Tuesday: Books I would Recommend to My 18 Year Old Self

This week's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted as usual by The Broke and the Bookish is 'Books I would Recommend to X', where bloggers can decide what the X is. And I think I will go with the Top Ten Books I would Recommend to My 18 Year Old Self. Why, you ask. Well, the 18...

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

In the case of Harry Potter, I’m one of the late bloomers and I’m quite glad about it. I have been dodging JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series ever since I could remember. It started off as something that everyone (and by everyone I mean every other peer in school) was reading and I just did...

Weekly Wishlist: Hyperbole and Half by Allie Brosh

I kind of forgot how I came across Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (it was obviously an online search that started with one keyword and ended up a hyperbole and a half away on the interweb), but I know what caught my attention. It was the illustration style. It reminded me a great...

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books on My TBR List

I'm back in time for another Top Ten Tuesday, a feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! Woohoo! Well, I'm kind of running out of excuses on why I have been MIA for so many days without notice. The only reason is that I have been trying really hard to get back to reading...

Lois Lowry’s Gathering Blue

Soon after I read Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue, I headed for Goodreads. I wanted to know what others thought about it. Because I was confused. Genuinely confused. I didn't know what to make of the book as a whole. And I didn't know if it was just me. I found out that it was not...

Stacking the Shelves – Books at a Steal

After what feels like months, I have managed to buy a few books and I'm all set to do my book haul for September - a Stacking the Shelves feature hosted by Tynga's Review. Woohoo! Except, there's a small hitch - I have only 4 out of the 6 books that I bought. The remaining...

Top Ten Tuesday: In Retrospect

Well, I should ideally have put up this post on Tuesday as intended by the feature hosts at The Broke and The Bookish. But, I kind of got caught up with the first Harry Potter book, and then the second, and then the third, and well, now I'm in the middle of the fourth. So,...

Love Used Books, Hate Shopping for Them? Amazon to the Rescue

So Amazon has gone and done it. Finally. Amazon.in has started an online used bookstore! I found out about it thanks to a little birdy over at The Later Alligator Blog. And all day long I've been doing the victory dance - in my head, of course. Why, you ask me? There are many reasons,...

2016 Goodreads Challenge Update

I've been contemplating doing a Goodreads Challenge update post and have successfully procrastinated till now. As of today, I have finished 30 books this year! *quick moondance* That's a little over half my challenge goal. At the beginning of the year I had decided that I would work my way through 50 books this year...

Marissa Meyer’s Cinder

I recently finished Marissa Meyer's Cinder from the Lunar Chronicles and I have the blogging community to thank for, for motivating (unintentionally, maybe) me to pick it up. There was a time when almost every other blog I visited would have a post about Cinder and I would wonder whether I would be able to...