Author: Pooja Kashyap

Alias Grace is a historical fiction book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published in 1996.  I like the storytelling technique of Atwood, the flashbacks and the narration takes the reader to contemporary times. The story of Alias Grace is based on a real woman named Grace Marks, who was from Ireland and moved to Canada in the 1800s. She was found guilty of helping to kill her boss, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery. These murders were very violent and shocking. Grace was sentenced to death,…

Exactly a year ago, I closed The Emperor’s New Mind by Sir Roger Penrose, slid it onto my bookshelf, and just stood there for a second….The book didn’t just earn a spot on my shelf, it earned a permanent place in my head.

Let me start by confessing something, even after reading a lot about the science behind it, I probably couldn’t explain how entropy works in thermodynamics without sneaking a quick peek at Wikipedia. But I am, without apology, obsessed with questions – the weirder, the better.

I just finished City of Illusions, and it’s one of those books that quietly works its way under your skin. It’s the third in Le Guin’s Ekumen series, but you can read it on its own too, as a standalone novel. It was first published in 1967.

Have you ever felt like you’re dreaming with open eyes? If not, read A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. Last year, when I first read Kafka on the Shore, I remember closing the book and staring into nothing for a full minute. It was the kind of book that makes silence hum with meaning. Today, after finishing A Wild Sheep Chase, I felt that same humming.