Brought this graphic book from the local library. I didn't resort to looking at the dictionary every second page, must be a win. I love it that I know my way around the nooks of the library.
It's been over a year here. Immensely grateful every time I look at the TV tower on my way out .
Finished booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq's Heart Lamp. Loved how the translation retained the spirit of Kannada. Loved reading something so familiar yet distant.
Read Sita by Volga and if I am to tell the story of Ramayana to kids, I am going to retell this version
Just finished The Husbands by Holly Gramazio and it was fun. Left me with as many questions as answers.
I read the many lives of Syeda X by Neha Dixit about an informal worker living in the outskirts of Delhi. I thought I already knew a lot but this book was a revelation. It's heartbreaking that people work so hard but even then life is so tough for them.
I read Arundhati Roy's latest, Mother Mary comes to me so quickly. Absolutely loved the book, she's been my hero for a long time.
Dream Count
Finished Adichie's latest and I think I liked her previous works more.
Hyperbole and a half by Allie Borsh
Used to be a regular reader of her blog, see parts of me in the book and then I don't. I think I enjoyed the blogs way more.
Good to finish a book after a while!
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Finished this 700 page epic about a family in Kerala across three generations, was shocked, hooked, and nostalgic.
This should be made into a movie!
Also forgot that finished Reasons to Stay alive by Matt Haig. He wrote this much before his diagnosis and I wonder how much of his issues stemmed from his undiagnosed neurodivergnce. Love that all his books are dedicated to his wife.
Finished Intermezzo a few days ago and just this will also be a good movie for sure, as intense as Normal People. Want to visit Dublin now!
Maybe you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb
Loved this one, at one point I was bawling reading about someone's pain, which I have no idea about, and I hope never will. It stuck a cord, heartening and bewildering that so much of suffering is universal. Somehow, magically, this book found me at the right time.
Whenever I make it to a U Bahn after it beeps to close the doors, I am quite disappointed that there's no applause!
Bougainvillea blooming
My bougainvillea is growing in a friend's house in Chennai, and another friend said they would miss the Ramzan iftaar walks around Fraser town!
6 months in Berlin, it's been great so far , but sometimes I don't remember where I got the courage to leave everything behind for a fresh start!
The comfort book my Matt Haig
Quote- Nothing is stronger than a small.hope that doesn't give up
A page from book by Matt Haig
A page from a book by Matt Haig
This book found me when I needed it. The very first two pages had realizations that hit me pretty late in life, 36 to be precise
I am amazed at the timing and love the handwritten notes left in the book by the friend whose book I book I borrowed, made reading it so much more meaningful!
Invisible Women , a book by Caroline Criado Perez
Spoke about this one at the book club yesterday. I wanted to read this one for a while and glad that my neighborhood library had it!
Snow-covered field on way to Wismar
It's lightly snowing, and the train is traversing through snow-covered fields. It's white as far as I can see. Running in Delhi cantt last year, everything was a blur... I couldn't picture what's next but I am here now. If this isn't nice, what is?
Dancing to Bollywood songs from my childhood in a Berlin pub wasn't in my 2025 Bingo card! What a night!
Amazing thread! What are the names of your goblins?
I'm so tired of it.
Neil Gaiman claiming autism.
Musk claiming autism.
Autism doesn't make you do terrible, terrible things.
Stop. Blaming. Autism.
Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.
Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
Poster of the Polish movie, Vika
Kino Krokokodil, near Schonhauser Allee S Bahn
Watching a movie about my namesake in the neighborhood is how I spent my Sundy evening! And I would've just run past this inconspicuous kino, but I'm glad I didn't.
This Vika also has a ginger cat and is DJ Vika!
Finished the evening with a beer, and I feel like a pig in paradise :)
Hello neighborhood:)
Logicomix- Graphic Novel
I have mixed feelings about this book that has nothing to do with the book. I learnt new things and I liked it.
There were AfD folks near Schonhauser Allee U Bahn station today. And little away, towards Vineta Str. U Bahn station, there were posters that this isn't 1933.
Only February will tell!
Watched All we imagine as light with German subtitles in a theater, probably I was the only person who didn't understand the Indian movie fully as most of it was in Malyalam!
Didn't know you had three cats too! One is Totoro, what are the other two called?
The cuties! How I miss my cats!
I saw a Bengali movie in a movie theater in Berlin today. I never saw a Bengali movie in a theater in Bangalore. Now that's something!
Illustration from Berlin by Jason Lutes
Berlin by Jason Lutes
Finished the last of the three part graphic novel called Berlin by Jason Lutes. I've wanted to read it ever since I learnt about it, though this was the most underwhelming of the three, loved the familiar names and places mentioned. Sad that as much things change, they remain the same!