The Sense of An Ending By Julian Barnes Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 The story of our life is ambushed by a beginning & an end and somewhere in the middle, new beginnings take structure. Their endings are often muted in the isolated departures and somewhere unknowingly, the beginning & ending convulse and it is at that very moment, something extra-ordinary […]
Whistler By Ann Patchett Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 ‘Whistler’ is the sub-conscious that meets you in the darkness, the blankness and in the absurdity of life when nothing makes sense. No doubt, there are triggers that awaken the sub-conscious and the unconscious to comprehend the dormant state of the continuity, when the idea to live; its […]
Born a Muslim By Ghazala Wahab Book Review
Book Review By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 Who is a Muslim? For centuries, the question has created paradoxes and illegitimate perceptions camouflaging a Muslim with innumerable identities. To put it unpretentiously, a Muslim is a person who follows Islam, irrefutably following the holy book “Quran.” Doesn’t it sound familiar to how we describe a Hindu following […]
I Who Have Never Known Men By Jacqueline Harpman Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 5/5 The narrator along with 39 other women are imprisoned inside a bunker, oblivious to their reason for captivity. She is twelve years old. The women are not allowed to touch each other as if touching will uncover the lofty secret of reliability. There are no men to be […]
Taiwan Travelogue By Yang Shuang-zi Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 5/5 International Booker Prize 2026 Winner Let’s start by discussing the friendship that ensues between Aoyama Chizuko and Chi-Chan. Aoyama has been invited by the government of Japan ruling Taiwan to confer to their imperialist agenda. She has no interest in the political fragment but wishes to explore the […]
Stone Yard Devotional By Charlotte Wood Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 There is a thought expressed by the narrator that caught my attention, “But why should a cemetery be neat?” I feel even if its neat or not, how does it really matter. I also feel that death is not as devastating as it is supposed to be. It […]
The Midnight Train By Matt Haig Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 If we ever try to break the past and camouflage the darkness of it, then comes an ease of accepting it; of putting such a past in a desolate corner, leaving it in isolation so that the reason of its existence becomes condemnable. Now such ‘past’ that broke […]
The Nights are Quiet in Tehran By Shida Bazyar Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 5/5 Can a revolution be melancholic? The heart that melts into the roots of disdain, dilapidation, and then we see a complex quandary of resistance. And why does the heart melt? It resigns to ‘love’, and if the lover that one does not see coming, and is still felt […]
Red Fire Blue Smoke By Haimanti Mitra Book Review
Book Review By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 ‘Red Fire Blue Smoke’ is a collection of children’s short stories, full of adventure, certitude of spirit, a dogged courage to achieve the unachievable. The stories that they are, immersive and inspiring, expand magnanimously from the tiny village of Narang to Thekkady forest of Kerela spiralling magic around the […]
The Witch By Marie Ndiaye Book Review and Critique
Book Review and Critique By Harsimran Kaur | Rating: 4/5 Lucie is a witch. She wants her daughters to carry further such rehearsed consanguinity of witchcraft. She tries hard but to her chagrin, there is despondency to see her daughters learn in neglect such craft of witchery. She foresees a disdain, a distortion as her daughters becomes inaccessible […]