These 10 horror books are full of malignant dark forces, both psychological and supernatural. They guarantee you – all adults – Halloween’s chills all year round. Imagine feeling the spooky Halloween excitement not just on October 31st but all year round. We’ve got a list of 10 scary books that keep you hooked, no matter…
Month: November 2023
Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Review)
Learn more about the key arguments of Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari’s 2016 book, as the author discusses the biggest questions raised by its discourse in the review below. What lies ahead in the future for humankind? Will our technological progress enable us to build a flourishing civilization with the help of machines, or, will…
The Best Works of Arundhati Roy and Why We Should Read Them
Happy Birthday, Arundhati Roy! Our author looks at and recommends some of her best works that make for great starting points for her body of literature. Arundhati Roy is among India’s best-known contemporary writers in English, who also often makes the news for her radical views and political activism. An architecture student, Roy came to…
Devotions by Mary Oliver (Review): Like Walking in the Woods
Read the review of one of Mary Oliver’s famous books of poems, Devotions, where poems speak in the language of nature. ‘Attention is the beginning of devotion’, observed Mary Oliver, a seeker who found life’s great questions mysteriously answered in the rhythms of the natural world and then reflected those quiet revelations within her poetic…
10 Best Book-to-Screen Adaptations of 2023
Dive into the 10 best book-to-screen adaptations in 2023 that have left readers and cinephiles impressed alike 2023 has been one for the Hollywood history books! We’ve seen two major strikes, both of which continued for well over 100 days. The Writers Guild of America called off its strike on 24th September–after 146 days of…
A Book of Simple Living (2015) by Ruskin Bond (Review): Bond Thinks Better When He Is Alone
Come and travel with the author as we explore the simple philosophies of living the hilly-billy silly mountain life that Ruskin Bond professed in his A Book of Simple Living (2015) If a man can be known by the ‘nature’ of his work, literally or more so, a child in us reminisces about Bond. This…