When I first moved to Barcelona, the first thing I obviously did was to look for books set in the city and go around looking for them in the city’s network of libraries and that is how I landed up this with this book. …

I had of course heard about ‘One Hundred years of Solitude’. Although I don’t now remember how. I must have been a pop culture reference or maybe one of my many friends from South America. Well, it does not matter how I got to know about it because when I…

Back in late 2019 when I had got the offer to move here to Spain I started looking around on YouTube for expats who would talk about their experience living here in Spain, as opposed to influencers who were more centred around planning visits. One such rabbit hole search landed…

Most creatures of ancient greek folklore would often lead to your death. Medusa would turn you into stone if you met her gaze, the minotaur would probably tear you apart and of course one of the many hydra heads would devour you for the main course, or as a dessert…

As a reader you will encounter a variety of books throughout your journey. There are those that send shivers down your spine, there are those that prod you to reflect and there is this one that does both. You could sometimes be reading about the past or about a dystopian…

I have a persistent complaint with Dan Brown. He always sticks to the same formula of Robert Langdon being ushered into a mysterious death, followed by a high action chase across the country and a clever dramatic reveal of some ulterior motive behind these deaths. Yet, I always pick up…

Ken Follet is one of the most engaging writers I have had the pleasure of reading. He blends the mundane details of a history happening into a semi-fictional world he spins up and makes its very easy for us to remember the smallest of details. As I walked into the…

Finally caving in to peer pressure from instagram’s bibliophile army, I picked up this book which promised me a ride through a world filled with magic, prophesies, draconic creatures and warriors. To understand the story, let us take a look at myth that is the foundation of this world. More…

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and left-leaning politician from Greece. He pens down a monologue about the evolution of todays all-pervasive market economies whilst discussing the problems that plague these structures and possible panaceas. The first chapter titled ‘Why So Much Inequality?’ acknowledges today’s fundamental reality. where we see unprecedented…