Category: Book Review

• January 5, 2025

  Sunshine, Cooking and, Books

  Sexy Love by T-ara is blaring from the tiny Bluetooth speaker behind me as I add a dollop of ghee into the merrily bubbling sambar. The smells feel home-y in a way it hasn’t in a long time. There are bowls of cooked green beans on the side. One with coconut as a garnish and…
• October 8, 2024

  Hindsight – A Book Review

  I haven’t written in a long time for reasons I will post about in another blog. Today I want to talk about a great book I read by Lakshmi Iyer called… Hindsight – A Book Review
• July 5, 2020

  First Review Is Here!

  So, Women’s Web published their review of my book “Why is my Hair Curly?” on their website. Hop on over to read and let me know what you thought.
• June 28, 2020

  How Can YOU Help A Debut Author?

  (The Obvious) BUY THEIR BOOK(S). Buy a second copy of their book(s) to gift to a friend. Buy a copy to donate to a school library. Review their book(s) on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, BookDepository – anywhere you can think of. Reviews get books seen. Books that are seen are books that are…
• January 5, 2020

  Book Review: Good Talk by Mira Jacob

  Mira Jacob’s book Good Talk kept popping on my social media feed since it came out in March 2019. The term graphic memoir was strange enough for me to put away looking for it. Then, this week, while searching for something unrelated, this book popped up again. On impulse I bought it. I finished the…
• September 12, 2019

  Book Review: A Fractured Life by Shabnam Samuel

  I stumbled onto Shabnam Samuel by chance. A common FB group, a random conversation and then an intentional phone call had me ordering her debut novel on Amazon. I thought of it as good karma. Something I did for a fellow writer. Admittedly, the blurb of her book intrigued me and I would have looked…
• April 27, 2018

  The Stranger In My Genes: Book Review (Sort of)

  A few weeks ago, I went through a spell where my head was full of thoughts. Disjointed, nostalgic, angst-filled thoughts as I navigated reaching out to relatives of my children I found out through DNA testing. The writer in me saw stories in the making. As an observer, I wanted to record so much of…
• January 30, 2018

  Book Review: Love, Hate And Other Filters

  I started following the author Samira Ahmed on Twitter a while back when her book was yet to be published. I followed her through the preview of her cover art and the eventual publication date. The premise of the book is that of a teen figuring out her place in the world amid islamophobia and…
• September 15, 2017

  Book Review: Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

  A friend recommended this book on Goodreads and on impulse, I checked it out from my library. At a little under 500 pages, it took me two days to finish the book. The story is about two women. Solimar from Mexico who dreams of getting to and building a life in America. Kavya, a Berkeley…
• November 22, 2016

  Book Review: With Malice By Eileen Cook

  At the beginning of the year I told myself I would try and read at least two books a month and signed up for the Goodreads Book Challenge for 25 books. I am currently close to 80 books and we have a month left in the year. The other thing I told myself was that…