Tag: Book Review

Bookstrapping: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

If Becoming was autobiographical in nature, in The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama is more in the self-help zone. (Image - Amazon)

In The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama engages in honest dialogues with readers about fundamental questions about life and everything in between. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5 stars.  

Bookstrapping: Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before Your Memory Fades’ by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot) is a book about loss and regret, anger, and confrontation, all conducted within the parameters of the time it takes for the coffee to go cold. (Image: Amazon)

If you are a reader who feels that ‘emotional storytelling’ is largely a visual medium, our reviewer recommends you pick this up. She says you have an unusual experience. BookStrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: ‘A Case Of Indian Marvels’, edited by David Davidar

‘A Case Of Indian Marvels’, an anthology of short stories that meet one simple criterion - “I read a line and I liked it enough to read the next.” Perhaps a very simple yardstick but effective nonetheless

Literature is about facilitating a broader understanding of the world around us – and while non-fiction may claim hegemony over this – fiction such as this, is truly special. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: ‘Gautam Adani: Reimagining Business in India and The World’ by R N Bhaskar

Gautam Adani is a product of the Kutch region. There’s the well-known reminder about the cultural profile of Kutchis - they consider education to be less important than starting a business. Most of them would shun being employees. It is common to find extremely well educated Kutchis opting to start their own business rather than join the top echelons of a corporate house

R N bhaskar’s book offers an excellent chronological outline of Gautam Adani’s work and will always have that value. But there is more room for us to hear from Adani in first person. Bookstrapping Rating: 3 stars

Bookstrapping: Review of Getting Lost by Nobel-prize winner Annie Ernaux

'We cannot paint perfect pictures of our lives and mislead those who are in the middle of making mistakes.' Nobel Prize for literature for 2022 winner, Annie Ernaux is here to help us with her ‘sexually frank study of a woman in the throes of love and lust’, writes our reviewer.

Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature for 2022, will be remembered, just as we remember her compatriot Simone De Beauvoir. Bookstrapping Rating: 4 stars

Bookstrapping Review: The Crimson Spring by Navtej Sarna

In The Crimson Spring, when Navtej Sarna writes about fights, he becomes a warrior. When he writes about temples, he becomes a believer. And when he writes about love, he becomes a poet. (Image: Amazon)

Navtej Sarna’s The Crimson Spring leaves you wondering what could possibly motivate the atrocities inflicted by Dyer and Dwyer. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars.

Bookstrapping: Build – An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

To make bonds, connections and emotive associations is the nature of social man but all the while he craves the halo of singularity. Indeed, we are unified in our hunger for exclusivity. (Image: Andrik Langfield via Unsplash)

In ‘Build’, Tony Fadell encourages entrepreneurs to know themselves better. He cites the case of Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of TikTok, who resigned at the height of TikTok’s popularity. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars