Review of 'A Wrinkle In Time'

I first heard of 'A wrinkle in time' only in 2016 when I worked with Ogilvy and used to write content for the Amazon Books page. This was one of the featured books for science fiction. Later, i read that it was being made into a movie. Today, I found out that Oprah Winfrey played a part in the movie.

This was one of the three books I chose for my #bookbingo with my #bookclub. I chose it for the category 'Time travel' although it is not strictly a time travel book. The children travel to other planets in search of their father. They "tesser" from one planet to another and all's well that ends well. The book only has around 200-odd pages, so I finished it in a day. I found the book okay. At least it kept me turning the pages. But I'm not exactly dying to read the other four books in this quintet. Also, was surprised to read that this children's classic has been banned more than once. Didn't find anything ban-worthy in the book. And no, I'm not interested in watching the movie or reading the graphic novel version, which my book club pal tells me is 'meh'.

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My Book Review of 'Bitch Goddess for Dummies'

Recently, I attended a zoom session on chick lit by the Chennai Lockdown Literary Festival (CLLF). In the session, one of the speakers was Maya Sharma Sriram. I was so impressed with the way she conducted the session and answered the questions that I decided to pick up her chick lit novel, ‘Bitch Goddess for Dummies’ brought out by Rupa Publications in 2012. And I was not disappointed. I’m not sure if I was biased toward the book by the personality I had seen on zoom or not, but I quite enjoy chick lit and have read several chick lit novels in my thirties. So the novel is about a 27-year-old woman Mira Iyer who decides to transform her personality from good girl to ‘bitch goddess’ to deal with the people in her life. Her mom who is constantly trying to fix her up with some eligible guy so that she can get married and Sanya, the real office bitch who is always cosying up to their bosses and vying for a promotion, are just two of the people in her life causing her angst. So it’s go...

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Review of 'Magical Women'

I bought Magical Women by Hachette India on Kindle a few days back. It had been on my TBR for a long time. However, I hadn’t read up on what kind of a collection of stories the book would contain. People who like weird stories, horror, dystopia and sci-fi might enjoy this collection, which has been edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan. It was published in 2019. The editor’s note states, “Each story in this collection is unique in its representation of what it means to be magical.” It may not be everyone’s cup of tea. The book is well written, but some of the themes are a bit disturbing. The first story “ Gul” by Shreya Ila Anasuya has themes of lesbianism. The second story “ Gandaberunda” by S.V. Sujatha is violent and macabre. When I read the third story, ‘Rulebook for Creating a Universe’ by Tashan Mehta, I felt that although I was reading English, I was seeing Greek and Latin. It went totally above my head. I really enjoyed the fourth story ‘The Demon Hunter’s Dilemm...

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