Hi Readers! Welcome to Top 8 Highlights of 2025 – Year in Review (Part 4)!! And, this is the final post of the 2025 Year in Review series. Every year, the fourth post in the series includes the top lessons of the year. So, this year, I thought I...

Hi Readers! Welcome to Part 3 of Year in Review series: Top 10 Posts of 2025. This post is possible only because of ALL OF YOU. Because of a slow reading year, it was a slow writing year too. I shared 37 posts this year. The total viewership reached...

Hi Watchers and Readers! Welcome to the Part 2 of the 2025 Year in Review series!! Immersing myself into movies and TV shows was a consistent pattern this year too. No emotional bandwidth to read? No problem! I’ll just watch something instead! This has been my motto throughout the...

Welcome to the 2025 Year in Review series!!! The most joyful time of the year indeed! Last year when I was set to go on a three-week vacation, my boss told me, “Enjoy as much as you can. Travel and read as much as you can! Because, when you...

Hi Readers! Happy last month of the year!! Let’s be honest, December isn’t Decembering. Work is just non-stop, which is usually never the case this close to the Christmas period. And worse is that there are no signs of it slowing down either. It’s quite hard to get into...

Hi Readers! End of the year is upon us, and you know what that means – Recap of all the major Book Awards of 2025! This year has been super slow in terms of personal reading, so I haven’t read a lot of award-winning books. But, writing this post,...

Hi Readers! November went by very quickly. It was kind of a mellow month, where nothing major happened. The major highlight was meeting two of my friends after the longest time. This was just the second time we met in 2025, so you can imagine! Work has continued to...

Hi Readers! Finished another book during the work-week this time. This one was also because of mood reading. I had read Satoshi Yagisawa’s previous books. While I enjoyed Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, I did not enjoy More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. Since this was a new book...

Hi Readers! Another mood reading sojourn encapsulated me to pick up The Examiner by Janice Hallett. I made the mistake of starting the book on a Monday. I had loved Hallet’s previous book also of a similar genre of epistolary mystery fiction. So, I should have known better than...

Hi Readers! On another one of moods, I was tempted to read a mystery, so I picked Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang because I saw a few great reviews talking about how thrilling, unhinged and even disgusting it was. Well, it was the perfect to book to...