You know those days when everything feels too loud? When your brain won’t shut up, when the news is terrible, when work is exhausting, when you’re just… tired? Days at the Torunka Café is for those days. This isn’t a book that’s going to blow your mind. It’s not going to make you gasp or…
At first glance, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo looks like just another Hollywood drama—fancy dresses, messy marriages, and a movie star’s rise and fall. But look past all the glamour, and you’ll find something much more interesting: a story about power, identity, and the impossible choices women have to make in…
We all know the Ramayana. It’s one of those stories that’s been told so many times, in so many ways, that it feels like it’s always been there. The story of Rama, the perfect prince who gave up his throne. Sita, his faithful wife who followed him into exile. Hanuman, the devoted monkey god who’d…
Most books give you a story with a beginning, middle, and end. They wrap things up nicely. They explain what everything means. They tell you how to feel. The Vegetarian by Han Kang doesn’t do any of that. Instead, it gives you something that sits in your chest like a weight. Something that makes you…
We spent a lovely day at the Anna Centenary Library, and I have to say—the children’s section is a total treasure trove. While my daughter and nephew were completely absorbed in books of their choice (and happily ignoring the rest of the world), I wandered around a bit myself, not really expecting much for adults….
