Parasite | Directed by Bong Joon-ho | Starring Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Jeong-un Lee My Rating: 10 of 5 Stars It has been exactly 47 days since the avalanche hit me but I clearly remember my stand in the aftermath. When the final frame of the movie blacked out and the end credits started rolling on the … More Movie Review: Parasite by Bong Joon-ho (2019)
This post is important because let’s face it – biblipohiles are gluttons. We can’t stop at the sight of a book; we have to reach out and feel it in our hands and eyes for ourselves. No amount of regaling by a friend would do. Unless we have held it in our senses and evaluated … More Bookchor Sale at Chennai and Hyderabad (March & April 2019)
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje My Rating: 4 of 5 Stars When the weapon inflicting a wound is done with its work, it hops onto to its next victim with a repugnant nonchalance. It doesn’t look back, it has barely any emotion. But it does not do the disappearing act before leaving behind the story of … More Book Review: Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (2018)
It’s not a belated birthday wish. It’s a continuing one. Breathing in the Proustian air is one of my most favorite stress-busters since the time I have been introduced to it. An air so rich yet so clear, it permeates into my lungs with its slight, caressing bend, filling me with a sense of beauty … More HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARCEL PROUST!
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Elizabeth Hyde Stevens | Longreads | June 2016 | 31 minutes (7,830 words) ? Nothing is less material than money. . . . Money is abstract, I repeated, money is future time. It can be an evening in the suburbs, it can be the music of Brahms, it can be maps,…
“Its okay to lose to opponent. It’s never okay to lose to fear.” [Image courtesy http://www.wallpapereast.com ]
A very happy birthday, Mr. Marquez! The first ever love story that cemented the emotion in my heart came from your pen. And it still is the best.
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig My Rating: 5 of 5 stars “Wanting to play chess against yourself is a paradox, like jumping over your own shadow.” But what fun is life if words like manic, insanity, paradox and contradiction are not put to test once in a while? Even at the cost of years of discipline and rationality? … More Book Review: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (1941)
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry My rating: 5 of 5 stars The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. Flipping through the pages, my heart leaped many times; those waves bearing the ring of countenance were from still stream but the ones with ripples of accusation roared thunder. Accusation? Accusation hurled towards whom? … More Book Review: Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (2001)
Happy Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare! Ah! It is your birthday, once again and an excuse for me to celebrate all that I have loved about your pen! The riches you have amassed over your lifetime make it almost unfair to other authors; I mean who can fill such huge boots? Not that the reader in me … More HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!
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