Opinions of a Bibliophile

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...

I made this blog a long time back, never got around to publishing anything. So for this New Year i.e. 2018, this is my new project. The Goal is to read at the least 12 books this year, best case, 52 books a year. Let us see how far along I can get. Update 1: 4th January - Have finished 50% of Book no:1 of the year. Feeling strangely optimistic. Update 2: 22nd February - Three books down, two reviews published. Currently reading book no: 4. The situation is promising.