Deep work, excuses and a disordered- mind.

I have already broken my streak. I had promised myself I will get back to it. At least for the few days that the working- world doesn't dictate my time. But our time isn't ever really our time, is it? I am talking about my 30- day- squat challenge that I voiced on here, and...

Nerdy Sunday! The All Souls Trilogy- Deborah Harkness.

1.How/Why/Where did you buy the book? I am not embarrassed to admit that I am the Harry Potter/ Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse Novels)/ Vampire Diaries/ Twilight reading kind of girl-woman. (As a consolation, I read the Kafka, Murakami, Tolstoy kinds too). As a gawky teenager I also watched every episode of Sabrina the Teenage...

Nerdy Sunday! The Fault in our Stars- John Green.

1.How/Why/Where did you buy the book? Darned cable TV, kept showing adverts for a movie with a girl with nasal prongs and a bob. I thought it was one of those, irritatingly "inspiring" cancer stories. And then, whenever I went to The Virgin Store or Jarir (bookstore in the Middle East) I saw this bunch...

Nerdy Sunday! Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn

“For several years, I had been bored. Not a whining, restless child's boredom (although I was not above that) but a dense, blanketing malaise. It seemed to me that there was nothing new to be discovered ever again. Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative (although the word derivative as a criticism is itself derivative). We...

Here’s another Nerdy Sunday! Girls of Riyadh- Rajaa Alsanea.

Hella folks! How have you all been? Today's post has been festering on my browser as a tab for three days now. I just can't seem to come around to finishing it. I even considered just ditching this post altogether. But then, what of my word? All the hoo haa about what was to come...

Nerdy Sunday! Curious about the veiled Arab world?

Hella Folks! It's been a while since I did a book review. Not that I haven't been reading. Quite the opposite actually.I just don't seem to get a moment to sit down, fire up Mr Lappy, click cutesy pictures, copy excerpts from the book and then give my not-so-worthy two cents on the book! Are...

Nerdy Sunday! The Lowland- Jhumpa Lahiri

June brought clouds that concealed the sun, storms that turned the sea gray. The atmosphere was raw enough for Subhash to keep wearing corduroy slippers instead of flip-flops; to continue to pre-heat the electric blanket on the bed. The rhythm of the rain was nocturnal, drumming heavily on the rooftop, tapering to a drizzle in...

Nerdy Sunday! Richard Dawkins- The God Delusion.

 Book Review- "THE GOD DELUSION" by Richard Dawkins. Another Sunday, another book review. A book that is seemingly very relevant to today’s times…. There was a time when money was the root cause of all evil. It still is, probably. But ironically religion comes close to dethroning money from it’s “prime-evil” status. We live in...

Nerdy Sunday! Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.

What's on your nightstand? The things a person keeps next to them at night reveals a lot about them. Their interests, priorities, quirks, the important things in their life, the important people, the time they wake up….. So, what’s on my night stand these days? A lot of things ....... A pacifier/ soother (duh!) A...