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Someone to Watch Over Me by Judith McNaught- 5/5 ratings
I read Someone to Watch Over Me by Judith McNaught back in 2013, and it’s an absolute 5/5 for me. It’s one of those romantic suspense books that completely sticks with you. The story follows Leigh Kendall, a successful Broadway actress who gets into a terrible car accident during a blizzard. When she wakes up in the hospital, her husband is completely missing, and the police actually start treating her as the prime suspect. That's when Michael Valente steps in—he’s this wealt
Hastha Narayan
Jul 31 min read


The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi- 3/5 stars
Eight-year-old Jess is uninhibitedly creative. She loves reading and listening to her mother narrate Shakespeare. She has an English father and a Nigerian mother, so, culturally, she feels like she belongs neither here nor there.
Irwin Ashish Coelho
Jul 31 min read


Awful Auntie by David Williams- 4/5 Stars
Awful Auntie The book is a fascinating deep dive into the psychological profiles of aunties, both local and global. Through this book, the author raises the following questions: What makes aunties aunties and what makes them awful ones? What is the threshold at which an aunty no longer remains just an aunty but crosses the border into being an awful one? The author has done a lot of research (there are detailed footnotes and sources) and dug into the past to extract a wealth
Irwin Ashish Coelho
Apr 51 min read


The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
5/5 stars Harold Fry is a 65-year-old man who lives with his wife in an empty nest. One day, he gets a post from a special person. The content of that post motivates him to write back. But seeing how replying through a post wouldn't be commensurate with the solid relationship he has had with this person, Harold decides to meet her. How? By walking 627 miles across England. Harold is not someone who exercises, nor is he into walking, so when he decides to make this epic journe
Irwin Ashish Coelho
Jan 71 min read


House of Correction - Nicci French
I love reading thrillers. That’s the genre that I can read any day. So when Simon & Schuster offered a review copy of House of...
Ananya - the_food_and_book_life
Feb 2, 20253 min read


Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I am a self-confessed non-reader of classics. I have a pre-conceived notion that they have too much of descriptions to be quick paced. I...
Ananya - the_food_and_book_life
Feb 2, 20252 min read
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