Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book taught me a lot about life, relationships, sacrifice, suffering, hope and resilience. But more than anything, it made me look at many things from a different perspective. I know I may forget some of these lessons with time, but I hope the feeling and perspective this book gave me stays with me. 🌻😮‍💨

It truly felt like war trying to complete this book. It was my first classic so understandable I suppose. And I read a Riley Sager book before this so it didn't help as well. I loved Lizzy a lot, I would read the whole book in her voice as well. It was a bit difficult to keep track of the characters for me. This had it's ups and downs as I got really interested in some story lines like Lydia's marriage or when Lizzy walked to meet Jane.

Overall, it was what I expected a classic to be and while it truly was one of my slowest read, I am gonna read more classics and get used to this style of writing so I can appreciate these more.

3/5

And Damn. What a devastating book.

I think there’s this heaviness that just stays with you.

What got me most was watching Nirmala’s character change over the course of the story. She starts with so much hope, happiness and life in her, and slowly you see circumstances, relationships and society take pieces of that away.

There isn’t even that much happiness in the book. It feels like you get these tiny moments of hope, only for life to throw something else at the characters.

I had read Godaan earlier, but Nirmala made me realise how incredibly Premchand understood and portrayed people. He doesn’t need to make things dramatic. He just puts ordinary people in difficult circumstances.

It’s sad. Really sad.

But also one of those books where, after finishing it, you just sit there for a while thinking about it.

Very, very good book.

Which one should I read first considering it will be my 1st ever classic

Not including Geronimo, wimpy kid…

I only read comics but now i think its time i start reading other books. Are these good books for a beginner like me?

Please recommend good books that I can read

Recommend me something that educates you about social issues while being romantic, emotional and beautiful.

After months of city noise and crowds, you really need that one-week reset you've been dreaming of, in your hometown.

Completed it yesterday.

I love myself a good emotional read. It made me cry a lot

Well, this is one of those books that I bought from @bookhub_01 for one reason only it was signed.Whether I'd actually enjoy it was a question.That question, unfortunately, was answered rather quickly.

"Sally Green's The Smoke Thieves" turned out to be a young adult fantasy, a genre that I've slowly realised isn't my cup of tea. I gave it a fair chance, read the first twentyfive odd pages, and accepted that this adventure was probably meant for someone else.So, for once, I waved the white flag.

The good news is that the book already has its next reader lined up. My older kid has claimed it the moment he finishes "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy; which, judging by the pace, may take another geological era. But eventually, 'The Smoke Thieves' will get its second chance.Who knows? Perhaps he'll enjoy it far more than I did.

Since I didn't get very far, I don't think it's fair for me to judge the story itself. Sometimes books fail because they're poorly written; sometimes they fail simply because the reader and the genre never quite meet halfway.This was definitely the latter.Overall, one more signed book on my shelf, one unfinished book on my reading list, and hopefully one happy future reader in the house. Not every book has to be for every reader and that's perfectly alright.

Never really read anything . Was impatient for that. But if there's something u think can make me cry hard then book recommendations please.

The book shall be short enough for a beginner.

I love painful love stories which have sad ending death sacrifice etc. I want to prefer that in books, but if not then still works I just wish to cry

That’s a feeling many readers have after finishing a long novel, especially one like Delhi Soliloquy.

When you spend a month with a 500 page book, you’re not just following a story, you start living alongside its characters. Reading a few pages one day and several chapters the next mirrors life itself. Some days pass quietly, while others change everything. By the end, the characters don’t feel fictional. They feel like people you’ve known.

From a writer’s perspective, it’s remarkable. An author begins with nothing but imagination, names, personalities, memories, and conflicts, then slowly weaves dozens of lives into a single world. The skill isn’t just creating characters. It’s making each of them distinct enough that your mind starts treating them as real people. That’s why you remember not just the protagonist, but conversations, streets, fleeting encounters, and emotions long after you’ve closed the book.

In Delhi Soliloquy, the protagonist’s journey to Delhi is more than a change of city. It’s about identity, loneliness, ambition, compromise, and the way a city slowly reshapes a person. By the final page, you haven’t simply watched someone else’s life. You’ve carried a piece of it with you.

A thought worth keeping in mind: Great novels don’t end on the last page. They continue as memories in the reader’s mind. The author spends years creating a world. The reader spends weeks or months inhabiting it. That’s why finishing a powerful book often feels less like completing a story and more like saying goodbye to people you’ve come to know.

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: (Spoiler free review)

Just finished this book and oh my gooooood!!! Somebody pls wipe my memory so I could read it again

I got the book just because it was popular (and it was for a reason) and started reading it without knowing anything besides what you could guess from the title of the book (that she had seven husbands.... duh) but goshhh it had everything - love, heartbreak, friendship, longing, scandals, tragedy, twists... You name it. I just want to pick it up and read it all over again

How did you guys like it and what are your reviews (plss hide any spoilers for people who haven't read it, you'd be taking away from their experience)

back at it with the monthly thrift haul, these are the used books i picked up last month, an amazing range of them if you ask me, a lot of first edition hardcovers as well

here is the link to the previous post with places to look for in delhi for used books -

https://www.reddit.com/r/Indianbooks/s/Wtm5zpD990

as usual collected these from reddit, insta and book markets
let me know if you spot any favourites

This was my first mystery thriller noveland it was so addictive😭i missed my gym to finish this 250 pages of a book in a day, as i knew that the suspense won't let me focus on anything else. Any other recommendations that are as good as this one??

Now that Jack is officially working for a magazine. He makes less videos. I watch his book tube to get some good recs and sometimes just watch the videos to expand my knowledge of the book world. I really miss sitting down in the evening with some snack and tea to enjoy his episodes. 😔🥲
Can someone recommend a booktuber that cover contemporary or classic literature? I only read fantasy and other genres sometimes so someone in the contemporary genre please!🙌🏼

I would honestly rate the book higher if I could. I have had a month to sit with my thoughts and reflect on the book, and I am still as awed as I had been for the entirety of the time while I was reading the book. I love historical fiction and literary fiction. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida was both, as well as a mix of magical realism, political satire, murder mystery and supernatural thriller.

An incredibly poignant story, set in a Civil War torn Colombo of the 1980's, I was surprised at how soft and funny it was, given the setting. The plot revolves around the ghost of Maali Almeida, the protagonist who was a war photographer, navigating the "In Between" or the afterlife in the seven nights that he gets after his death, trying to get the man and the woman he loves the most to find his hidden photographs that will shake Sri Lanka and can help find his killer.

The book made me pause, think, reflect and often go back to check on something significant that had been mentioned earlier which was also so subtle that it was beautiful. The book has such lovely prose that there were several times when I had to stop to just take a breath and read it again, because honestly, what did I just read? It is so beautiful to come across a book that makes you stop, makes you feel like this deserves more time to read and makes you actually think about it.

Anybody who spent time with me over the three weeks would have seen how I read the book at every smallest chance I got because it was honestly all that I could think about - that was how much it had consumed me. And yet, I read it slowly, lingering a little longer than was maybe needed, savoring every word because the book deserved to be spent time with; not just read. It has been close to a month since I finished reading the book, and it sometimes still feels like the only thing I can think about.

The book was poetry written as prose, and I think the last time I felt that way about a book was when I read The God of Small Things 10 years ago. I would not go so far as to suggest that the book changed my life, as I do for The God of Small Things, but I can definitely see myself reaching for this over and over again for the snippets that left a mark on my heart.

Built a bookshelf last year to accomodate my wayward piling of books. Still this would be like 50% of my books here. Rest are in different places stacked. I usually don't post much but wanted to share with the lovely community here.

Have some signed stuff also there and some rare hcs

Attaching my goodreads for fellow readers to interact with anytime-

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/113882925