Opinions of a Bibliophile

My copy of SOTL Anybody else have this annoying habit of watching a movie and then trying to find out whether it is based on a book and then obsessively reading said book and comparing minute details over how the movie deviated from the books? Or are you the original hipsters who have thoroughly read the book and go watch the movie just so that you can “tsk” “tsk” at every deviated plot-line and every omitted character?  Yes, I can hear you Harry Potter fans yelling from the corner! Yes, I agree with you, the books were better. Silence of the lambs, I should call it a cult masterpiece as far as thrillers are concerned. Both the book and the movie take on the story in parallel paths, both amazing and totally justified but why do I praise the movie so much? Well, one does not simply watch “Silence of the Lambs” and not fall in love with Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of Hannibal Lecter aka Hannibal the Cannibal. Jodie Foster is brilliant as Clarice Starling, the rookie detectiv

Remember me! Oh how layered is that song! Coco, Pixar's 19th feature film. The movie revolves around Miguel Riviera, a young boy who aspires to become a musician. Only one thing stands between him realizing his dream and that is, his family hates music, with a vengeance. Coco is set in Mexico in the fictional town of Santa Cecilia celebrating Dia de Los Meurtos aka The Day of The Dead, a traditional Christian festival. Here is a piece of trivia, St. Cecilia is the Patron saint of musicians, so aptly named, for reasons you will understand on watching the movie. The movie portrays Mexican culture and traditions in a beautiful, vibrant way, exactly like in real life. I was so excited for this movie that I violated my personal rule of watching no trailers and literally watched every single video featuring the movie. From the trailers what I noticed was that the ending looked obvious, but knowing Pixar, I knew this was a diversion. Keeping that in mind I entered the theat

The animals of Manor Farm rebel against their owners and establish England's first Animal Farm, owned wholly by animals.  A relatively short novel, all but about a hundred pages long. A very easy read and quite engaging. Owing to the relative short length of this book I decided a new approach to reading this - Buddy reading. What this means is you read the novel, in tandem with a friend. You decide how many pages/chapters to read per day and at the end of the day you discuss the chapters read. It was a really fun experience for me and I couldn't have picked a better book for this. The style of the novel is political satire, mocking the erstwhile Soviet Union. What engaged me the most about this novel was the fact that how many of the satirical images are relevant to our present world political scenario. The fanaticism, the blind following of the beings in power, the constant disregard and the changing of rules, everything is of so much relevance to India's Political

Broadly divided as follows Mangalore Bangalore Online Mangalore Bookmark, Near Post Office, Hampankatta Decent Collection of books, not very impressive and not very expansive.  Would recommend only for the most mainstream purchases and for stationery purchase. Bookmark, Bharath Mall, Lalbagh Good collection of books Would recommend for a quick book pickup Sapna Book House, Mischief mall, Hampankatta One of Mangalore's Best places for Book Hunting Super expansive and through collection. Also best recommended for academic books and reference books Great selection of Toys, games, action figures, show pieces etc. 10/10 would recommend School Book Company, Opposite Mischief Mall, Hampankatta Not many good novels for sale. Best place for stationery shopping, especially notebooks School Book Company, Car Street If there was a heaven for academic shopping, it would be this place. Even the most obscure author(academic) can be found here. The novel c

The first book of the year is done, here goes the review The book is set in a dystopian present day India with occasional flashbacks. The political landscape is in shambles and India has 4 Prime Ministers. Our protagonist is a superhuman Pawan who is of questionable demigod status. The story revolves around how Pawan, a humanoid monkey, with superior intelligence, superhuman strength and resilience and near invincibility. The story deals with his life after finding out his abilities and after a certain someone finds out his abilities Sorabh Pant has a brilliant job of crafting the universe of the Flying Accountant. The whole novel is peppered with Sorabh's signature snarky dialogues and sass. The world of Pawan is believable, to the level that one may almost confuse reality with fiction. The occasional flashback and the lore provided is not just funny, but to some extent can also be considered a possible truth, under the right conditions, needless to say.

1. I am always out of money Most probably because I bought every book that I heard about. 2. Always out of shelf space See point 1. 3. Never have enough time to read all the books I purchased For a couple of reasons here. Sometimes the book I bought is way to popular, so I already know how it goes on. Else there is something more popular that needs to be read. Case in point: I started reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" A couple of days after that Game of Thrones released their first trailer for season 7 and I started reading "A World of Ice and Fire" just so I could understand the trailer fully and debunk any stupid theory my friends decided to thrust upon me. 4. Every time you hear the mention of a book you haven't heard you have to buy it and inadvertently it ends up on either your bookshelf or your Amazon wishlist I started watching  Books On Toast  podcasts "BoTCasts" and suddenly my Amazon wishlist is populated with a c