Opinions of a Bibliophile

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 ...

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...