I’m starting 2023 strong by reading a gratifying amount of books. The highlights thusfar are Shveta Thakrar’s Star Daughter, Angela Slatter’s The Bone Lantern (this glorious author gifted me a small parcel of her books as a get-well present and I feel so very lucky indeed!). Run, do not walk to get The Bone Lantern … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 12/02/2023
I actually have 11 fiction books in my current reading list now (not even bothering to count monographs and academic collections plus articles). More than half of those are for research articles I am writing. As for the other half: And that’s about it for now. My TBR list both physical and electronic is quite … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 11/10/2022
As I try to catch up on several months worth of short fiction reading, I’ve encountered so many gems. Here are my favourites for July! Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from July 2022
Hello! I am frighteningly behind on these roundups because from 4 July 2022 to 5 August 2022 I was hospitalised for spine injury (acute exacerbation of prolapsed inverted disc, says the medical report) and was bedridden for nearly that whole time. Then came a lot of grading (in fact, I was grading and supervising even … Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from June 2022
I managed to finish reading a novella in two nights! That’s Sarah J Maas’s A Court of Frost and Starlight, which I quickly finished after finishing A Court of Wings and Ruin. I want to go to the next book in the series but decided I wouldn’t gobble it down too fast and am reading … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 04/06/2022
May yielded a fine crop of short stories that I greatly enjoyed. Stories of haunting, of love and belonging — every single story on this list had a strong narrative voice that pulled at me. Highly recommended! A Manual on Different Options To Bring a Loved One To Life by Oyedotun Damilola Muees (Clarkesworld Magazine). … Continue reading Short Fiction I Enjoyed from May 2022
Short and sweet since the reading has been slow, and work has been intense. A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J Maas The Duke and I – Julia Quinn Lud-in-the-Mist — Hope Mirlees The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin Apart from this, I’m also reading a fistful of monographs for my research, and … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 20/04/2022
Seems too numerically lovely a date not to have any blog post! Books I completed reading in January: A Court of Thorns and Roses — Sarah J Maas (23/01/2022) The Blue Salt Road – Joanne M Harris (18/01/2022) The Fifth Season — N.K Jemisin (17/01/2022) The Eye of the World — Robert Jordan (6/01/2022) Books I’m … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 02/02/2022
Today’s the last day of my two-week “vacation” at home. Tomorrow, the first working day of the year (`sif I haven’t been working on work stuff at home because academic vacation, amirite) begins, and I thought I’d post in here a little earlier than I’d planned, simply because I have things to share! I’m… a … Continue reading What I’m Currently Reading 09/01/2022