Genre: Non-fiction/ Politics/ Social Commentary #checkthatbookreviews  “The act of speaking out makes you alone.” Ravish Kumar We are all well aware of the kind of silence that fear  brings up within each one of us. Some of us however, still raise our voices, maybe sometimes for ourselves or for others. Ravish Kumar, senior editor of media news network NDTV is one such individual. As a … Continue reading The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation by Ravish Kumar

This is a Japanese translation of the book, ‘Konbini ningen’. Keiko Furukura as the title suggests, is a convenience store woman rather a worker who identifies herself ONLY with her workplace which is a ‘convenience store’. Keiko is described as an odd child who grew up to be a woman in her thirties, without a family of her own and without much progression in her … Continue reading Convenience Store Woman- Sayaka Murata- Translated to the English by Ginny Tapley Takemori

Have you ever wondered why women love reading romance novels? Well, I know all women have their own reasons, but the one common thing is that it transports us to the lives of lovers feeling intense emotion for each other and also because getting lost in their love, lust, flirting, attention and break up is an escape which we all do long for. Do you … Continue reading The Billionaire’s Wake-Up-Call Girl by Annika Martin

Genre: Non-Fiction/Informative #checkthatbookreviews “There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”- Hans Rosling If you are a person who has a certain amount of education, you certainly have an idea of what the current situation of the world is. And what are your ideas about literacy, poverty, growth, population, pollution, starvation? How were these views formed? We all have our perceptions, … Continue reading Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things are Better Than You Think- Hans Rosling

Genre: Non-Fiction- Mental Health If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn’t matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks. And feeling bad when we are told there is no reason to, well, that sucks even more. Matt Haig All of us or atleast most of us at some point in our lives have at sometime or … Continue reading Reasons to Stay Alive By Matt Haig