So after a long time, I decided to write again. However, it’s not so easy getting back on track after a decade of no writing. First things first, I had to choose a platform for blogging. Having experienced wordpress before(Literapture and Idle Talk ), I wanted to try something more minimal and something which I could control - enter Netlify and Hugo. With their handy documentation, getting started was easy as pie.

After the disaster of Lost Symbol I found some welcome respite in Jonathan Stroud’s book. It is definitely better than Lost Symbol. If you are a Harry Potter fan then you’ll definitely like this book(- though it’s not as intricate as Harry Potter). Also this book(as written in the back-cover) “is a roller-coaster ride of magic, adventure, and political skulduggery,” in which fates of a magician, a djinni, and a commoner explosively collide.

What!! is this guy crazy? Hasn’t he got anything else to blog about? This is cheating- you can’t blog about childhood stories in your literary reviews. And so on and so forth Believe me friends, I did read Mahabharata- not the entire translation but an edited one by C.Rajagopalachari (yes. The last governor-general of India ), so writing about it here does not constitute ‘cheating’. Reading it gave me many delightful discoveries which I thought I might share with you guys- guys like me who have watched only serials and think they know mahabharata.

So it has been a long time since I wrote my last review. I haven’t exactly been sitting idle but lately I am reading a lot of “extra heavy-duty” books which i guess are written with the intent of taking months to read and ponder. One such book is Fritjof Capra’s “The Tao of Physics”. You might be wondering how the heck is such a book related to Dan Brown’s Lost symbol, but as i found to my delight while reading Lost Symbol- many concepts were quite similar.

So as promised i am back with my new review. This one is about a book which mom always told me to read but which I always kept postponing. I had previously read “Final Diagnosis” when I was in my high school. It was a marvellous book by any standards you chose to apply. I had bought “Overload” along with it but somehow through act of fate or lethargy didn’t bother to read.