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Postmortem
Things haven’t been the easiest. This year. I guess as humans we are hardwired to see the grey spots in an otherwise clean white canvas. Exaggerate our circumstances. But how can we not also! Those small grey spots compromise the entire integrity of the white canvas, right! But is life only and exactly that white canvas with grey spots? Maybe it is also a canvas of all possible random colours with no permanent meaning! I am still trying to figure it out, make sense of the thi

J.S.D
Dec 16, 20252 min read


The Sanatorium
Author: Sarah Pearse Pages: 427 Words: 118000 approximately Words can’t describe how bored I felt while trying to finish this book. I...

J.S.D
May 31, 20242 min read


The unmarriageable man
Author: Ashok Ferrey The saying that never judge a book by its cover has its own importance. I don’t abide by it always. Every now and...

J.S.D
Apr 28, 20241 min read


Comfortable in an Uncomfortable Relationship
While growing up, I have been closer to my mother, more than I have been to my father. One of the reasons may be because Maa was mostly...

J.S.D
Apr 8, 20243 min read


The Moroccan Daughter
Author: Deborah Rodriguez Pages: 293 Words: 87000 approx The Moroccan Daughter is Rodriguez’s second book that I have had the pleasure to...

J.S.D
Jan 11, 20241 min read


MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Author: Nicholas Sparks The last time I read one of Nicholas Sparks’s books, I was barely 19. A disillusioned teenager, who believed in...

J.S.D
Mar 27, 20232 min read


ELEVEN MINUTES
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 291 Total approximate words: 81400 Paulo Coelho is a story teller, probably one of the bests that the...

J.S.D
Nov 23, 20223 min read


THE HOPE FACTORY
Author: Lavanya Sankaran Total pages: 350 Total approximate words: 1,19,000 SYNOPSIS The plot has two protagonists, Anand, a family man...

J.S.D
Mar 8, 20222 min read


ONE PART WOMAN
Author: Perumal Murugan Total Pages: 240 Total approximate words: 71000 The novel was originally written in Tamil, and then translated in...

J.S.D
Dec 11, 20212 min read
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