Romancing Words :)

While my heart was reluctant about me writing, this time my brain won and I’m finally mustering up some courage to pull my hands out and write in this annoyingly cold weather, all cuddled up in my warm cozy blanket. I’m hoping you’re warm too. Today’s review is going to be about the latest book I’ve finished reading: ‘Monsoon’ by Subin Bhattarai. I have to admit it shamefully that this is the first ever novel that I’ve read which is written in Nepali. I’m so sorry, Nepali writers, I couldn’t be faithful!! I always felt that reading Nepali wouldn’t be as easy as reading an English novel but this time, I’m wrong and I enjoyed the book to the fullest. “ cflv/ b]v]s} ;kgf ;fsf/ x'G5, gb]v]sf] ;kgfsf] cfsf/ sxf“ x'G5< ” The protagonist of the novel is Mr. Subhan Upadhyay. The name really matched the writer (Subhan-Subin) so I had to turn the cover page to check if they were the same person. But they aren’t. You know, Subhan is just like one of the single guys we get t...

George Carlin said: “The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. Life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What’s that, a bonus?” That being said, when you read “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes, you won’t agree less to the quote. Me Before You is the story of Louisa Clark and Will Traynor, two different persons with completely different personalities. While they know quite a lot of things about their lives, neither of them knows that they’re going to change the other for all time. Lou Clark is forced to take the job of looking after a quadriplegic, Will Traynor, for six months when she loses her job at The Buttered Bun. As if being shoved up against Will’s tantrums and keeping up with his basic routines and being catapulted into a whole new life wasn’t already difficult enough for Lou, a bomb drops on her when she overhears Will’s mother and sister talking about Will’s wish for euthanasia and realizes that it was W...

\ We live in a country where if we were asked to name some good books by a Nepali writer who writes in English, I’m sure only few names would strike the frontal cortex of your cerebrum. And Samrat Upadhyay is not one of those names which can possibly skip our minds in those moments of peril. “Buddha’s Orphans” is the latest novel by our native author of “Arresting God in Kathmandu.” Hailed as a Buddhist Chekhov, it’s incredible how the Whiting Award winner author, who himself has been living in the States for more than two decades has been able to pull a novel off his sleeves which is permeated with so much originality of our culture. The story transverses us more than half the century back to the era of social and political upheavals in Nepal to the present day. Provided that, most of us , including the author himself,were not even born during the year when the story unfolds, still Upadhyay has carved his writing in such a way that the pictures from the alleys to every geogra...

“Each end gives us the opportunity for a rebirth.” Entitled as an international bestseller author, Paulo Coelho has marked his return with his most personal novel till date, Aleph, which he frequently calls ‘A journey back to my kingdom’. Being the protagonist himself, Coelho explains about his journey from a simple book signing event in London to a whirlwind detour of five weeks through Africa, Europe and finally to Asia on a train. As always, this time too, he doesn’t fail to inspire his readers with his limpid literature and leaves everyone spell bound when it comes to writing about love, hope and confronting the challenges in life. Aleph, as described in the book, is the point where time and space converge. Like the ever loved Santiago, the main character of “The Alchemist”, Paulo too suffers a grave crisis in faith. Successful but discontented writer, Coelho, sets up in a journey to seek a path of spiritual renewal and growth as...