Adventure 3: Make something up stories you can’t unread, Chuck Palahniuk

My third week of reading introduced me to Chuck Palahniuk’s short stories, and reiterated why he’s the one of the most captivating storytellers out there. ‘Make something up…’ was one of the books I could…

Adventure 8: The Kaunteyas, Madhavi.S.Mahadevan

To retell the Mahabharata, India’s oldest, biggest and most told epic, in a new light is no mean task. To present the new perspective of this colossal story in under 300 pages of not-so-small font is not easy either. Madhavi.S.Mahadevan (It’s my…

Adventure 9: The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Cancer’s life is a recapitulation of the body’s life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own.” — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

Adventure 5: Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese

February, I think will be one of the busiest months I would have had this year. In the first week, I was shuttling between Vegas, Denver, Boulder and Chennai (India) in the space of 7 days. Fun as it sounds, travel does take a toll on the effort…

Adventure 6: Leaf by Niggle, J.R.R Tolkien (Not a review, but an adventure of finding the book)

Week 2 of February was a haze of meeting family and friends in Chennai. There is something about home, about getting yourself reacquainted with old roads, the places…

The list

Here’s a list of all the books I read during 2017! While I somehow managed to get through 52 books for the year, writing about them took a backseat, in view of the other interesting adventures I was lucky to be part of during the year. However, I do hope to stick to the task of writing about each of these books, and…

Adventure 11: The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

Week 11 of the reading challenge introduced me to Paula Hawkins’ novel, which was then a major motion picture as well. I had forgotten for a while now of how racy books can be, and had taken to accepting slow starts. Paula Hawkins’ work…

Adventure 4: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

The 4th week of January was pretty busy outside of the world of words. I had just been told of a trip to the France and the UK, and was preparing my travel documents for the same. I was also the winner of the…

Adventure 7: Selection Day, Aravind Adiga

Visiting bookstores in India made me realize how deprived I was of Indian authors’ publications. Wandering around bookstores in Chennai introduced me to the world of Indian writing I was starved off for a good year. The next few books involves my experience…

Adventure 10: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

After dealing with some serious fact-oriented non-fiction the previous week, I wanted to read a lighter book which would be both enjoyable and fun in equal measure. ‘The Curious Incident…’ was the…