I love the book ‘Tiger Hills’ it makes me feel like I am standing in the middle of a field, on the cusp of a monsoon evening, with the clean rain breaking on my skin until I am drenched from head to toe, and from skin to the pit of my stomach. Every time I pick up that book I feel like I step right back into the home of my childhood fascinations, into the color green, into a life that I imagined even before I lived and then even lived. It makes my heart heavy.
“I’ll give you the sun’ I have loved for a long time. I don’t know why I love it, it’s really a simple story, about love, but I think I love the best is the bits that are more fantasy than reality and how seamlessly both collide. I like how light and fast it feels, and just a little bit unhinged. It is one of those young adult like books that I keep going back to whenever I feel like I need to be able to feel a little bit silly and dizzy and like I have been running in the sun for a while.
Whenever I read something too heavy and actually even watch something a bit too heavy, I always need to reach ‘Howl’s moving castle’ or watch the movie. It is one of the best books that I have ever read. I love it to no ends. I love Sophie, although I love Howl more and identify with his character rather than my namesake. I love being able to fall into this intricate world of fantasy and parallel universes and drama and magic. This book is my reset point, and for a reason. A children's book that I believe every single adult should read. It makes me feel joy, every single time.
‘Maximum City’ is the first and only non-fiction book I will ever stand behind. This book made me fall in love with the city that I was born in and hated growing up in. It has a very nonsensical, straightforward way of stating fantastical events and facts. I also love the characters in the book, each one of them is so well depicted in the book, so rich and so full of life, and perfectly reflected on. The book was educational to me. I love the part about Hritik Roshan, fucking ‘Kaho na Pyar hai’ gets a shout, and that bit actually made me cry a little bit. Nostalgia pro ma.
‘The great Gatsby’ is my second most favorite romance novel. All of that longing, all of that thrill of pinning and chasing, all of that ache. I love it when he dies. I love the hazy and riveting background of New York in the twenties. I love the glamorous lives of everyone, and how each detail is described, so beautifully. I love this book because I love the idea of immortalizing love, of going far and beyond in the name of love. I love the way that everything collides into the next thing and people and lives get entangled into a big, horrible mess. It fascinates me to no end when love causes chaos and tragedy.
“I’ll give you the sun’ I have loved for a long time. I don’t know why I love it, it’s really a simple story, about love, but I think I love the best is the bits that are more fantasy than reality and how seamlessly both collide. I like how light and fast it feels, and just a little bit unhinged. It is one of those young adult like books that I keep going back to whenever I feel like I need to be able to feel a little bit silly and dizzy and like I have been running in the sun for a while.
Whenever I read something too heavy and actually even watch something a bit too heavy, I always need to reach ‘Howl’s moving castle’ or watch the movie. It is one of the best books that I have ever read. I love it to no ends. I love Sophie, although I love Howl more and identify with his character rather than my namesake. I love being able to fall into this intricate world of fantasy and parallel universes and drama and magic. This book is my reset point, and for a reason. A children's book that I believe every single adult should read. It makes me feel joy, every single time.
‘Maximum City’ is the first and only non-fiction book I will ever stand behind. This book made me fall in love with the city that I was born in and hated growing up in. It has a very nonsensical, straightforward way of stating fantastical events and facts. I also love the characters in the book, each one of them is so well depicted in the book, so rich and so full of life, and perfectly reflected on. The book was educational to me. I love the part about Hritik Roshan, fucking ‘Kaho na Pyar hai’ gets a shout, and that bit actually made me cry a little bit. Nostalgia pro ma.
‘The great Gatsby’ is my second most favorite romance novel. All of that longing, all of that thrill of pinning and chasing, all of that ache. I love it when he dies. I love the hazy and riveting background of New York in the twenties. I love the glamorous lives of everyone, and how each detail is described, so beautifully. I love this book because I love the idea of immortalizing love, of going far and beyond in the name of love. I love the way that everything collides into the next thing and people and lives get entangled into a big, horrible mess. It fascinates me to no end when love causes chaos and tragedy.
I have read the book ‘Pachinko’ multiple times now, one too many, The beauty of this book is so complex. It feels like the story flows seamlessly in and out of the soul of each character and the turmoil that surrounds them. This book thought me a lesson in perseverance. The idea of morality in relation to each person and the society and the intricate relation between them is one of the most interesting themes in the book for me. I love to also read about the history of another group of people who were oppressed. The story gives me a lot of hope too, I think that’s why I love it so much, it makes me believe that holding on to dreams against all odds can be worth everything. The fiction of this book helps me to remember the reality of my life, of the world around me.
One of the most haunting and beautiful stories that I ever read was ‘The last song of Dusk’. I wept so, so much when I finished reading this book, and I haven’t read it after that first time simply because I am so terrified of it. It’s a book that made me so, so sad – in the best way possible. It is also a very feral book. I love the wildness of it, the way that the grief and heartbreak could also be so stunning. Pain is so seductive. I love it. I have always loved the idea of drowning, and this book makes me feel like I am drowning. The flow of the prose is also so soothing, it entraps you. I could hardly put this book down, once I picked it up.
My most favorite part in ‘The Goldflinch’ is when Theo is in Vegas. Every time I read this book I can’t help but slip into daydreams of wild and endless horizons and hot, vivid sunsets. It makes me feel fuzzy. I would love to go to the desert one day, and I would love to run free in the emptiness and lay around and look at the endless sky. It reminds me of my days in Auroville, when I would walk around in the dark, in the middle of the night, going back home by myself. The movie was so shit, really, I had wished they would at least try, just a little bit, to show this part of the book like it reads, free and full of life. The last two times I read this book I kinda rushed through the little bit at the end, but it is still worth it.
I personally think that ‘Love in the time of cholera’ is the best love story I have ever read. It is some of the best writing I have ever read. I don’t even know where to begin with this one. The first few pages had me confounded, I think everything changed for me when the Doctor dies. Each character is so deeply flawed and strong in their own way, as they go through life, it fascinates me so much. And all of that fucking longing, all of the suffering. Love is supposed to be easy, isn’t it? (I would really recomend skipping the nuancy bits)
‘Strange the dreamer’ and the next one with it are my most favorite books that I have
One of the most haunting and beautiful stories that I ever read was ‘The last song of Dusk’. I wept so, so much when I finished reading this book, and I haven’t read it after that first time simply because I am so terrified of it. It’s a book that made me so, so sad – in the best way possible. It is also a very feral book. I love the wildness of it, the way that the grief and heartbreak could also be so stunning. Pain is so seductive. I love it. I have always loved the idea of drowning, and this book makes me feel like I am drowning. The flow of the prose is also so soothing, it entraps you. I could hardly put this book down, once I picked it up.
My most favorite part in ‘The Goldflinch’ is when Theo is in Vegas. Every time I read this book I can’t help but slip into daydreams of wild and endless horizons and hot, vivid sunsets. It makes me feel fuzzy. I would love to go to the desert one day, and I would love to run free in the emptiness and lay around and look at the endless sky. It reminds me of my days in Auroville, when I would walk around in the dark, in the middle of the night, going back home by myself. The movie was so shit, really, I had wished they would at least try, just a little bit, to show this part of the book like it reads, free and full of life. The last two times I read this book I kinda rushed through the little bit at the end, but it is still worth it.
I personally think that ‘Love in the time of cholera’ is the best love story I have ever read. It is some of the best writing I have ever read. I don’t even know where to begin with this one. The first few pages had me confounded, I think everything changed for me when the Doctor dies. Each character is so deeply flawed and strong in their own way, as they go through life, it fascinates me so much. And all of that fucking longing, all of the suffering. Love is supposed to be easy, isn’t it? (I would really recomend skipping the nuancy bits)
‘Strange the dreamer’ and the next one with it are my most favorite books that I have
ever read. Timeless. I could read this series a million times and it wouldn’t be enough. I would like to be buried with these two books. This spring, I really wanted to read the book, I was thinking about it a lot, and a few days later we were walking down the road when we passed one of our neighborhood charity shops and right there, right fucking there, in the take for free baskets, both books! I was so happy. I didn’t really remember much of the second book, so that was an intimate pleasure. It is truly one of the most beautiful and most lovely piece of fantasy I have ever come across. The writing is so detailed in building Lazlo's world, the story is intricate and keeps you hooked from page one. The love between Strange and Sarai makes me want to go out and shout and scream from rooftops. The second book travels through different time periods and the fruition of the story is so stunning. I love the Godspawn. The relationship between the characters defines the shape of the story, and character development of each one of the main characters is
handled
with elegance and delicacy. The books also read like butter. I swear I hardly put them down once I began reading them.