The Lost Bookshop

  • Vrinda Maheshwari
  • January 3, 2024
  • 1 min read

Book Review The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods is a masterpiece. The story is set in 1920s Dublin and the present time with POV of three characters, Opaline and Henry and Martha. The lives of the three characters are intertwined in Dublin where each person is going through their own internal battles while learning how […]

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The Song of Achilles

  • Vrinda Maheshwari
  • November 10, 2022
  • 2 min read

Just like a lyre, Achilles’ favorite instrument, the book tugs at your heartstrings and makes them sing. Madeline Miller takes Homer’s Iliad and crafts story that drenches you under a magical waterfall in the middle of a serene forest. Here we see the life of Achilles, through the loving eyes of Patrclus, his partner, best […]

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The Robber Bride

  • Vrinda Maheshwari
  • November 10, 2022
  • 1 min read

Not much can be said about the #TheRobberBride without giving the plot away, If there is one. Although, we can say that Zinea is the plot. She is nowhere and she is everywhere. Here we are, reading about the past, present and, in a way, the future about the lives of three friends, Roz, Charis […]

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The Island of Missing Trees

  • Vrinda Maheshwari
  • April 13, 2020
  • 2 min read

Another lyrical masterpiece by Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Tree was not my favorite read of the Shafak books. The story she narrates is one that tugs at the heartstrings yet falls a little short of the build-up she so usually makes. It does not wait for the reader to cover the truth as […]

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