(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) A heart warming comic book that not only illustrates the precious and beautiful relationship between a daughter and her mother, but also underscores the importance of patient and encouraging parenting. As is the case with every growing child, the daughter's aspirations and ambitions change every single day almost and her mother unrelentingly … Continue reading Mommy, Look At Me! – Alexandra Santana

(Image Credit: http://www.target.com) The unnamed protagonist in Jay McInerney’ s “Bright Lights, Big City” leads a debauched life roiling with visceral emotions and laced with vice. When not burning away nights snorting lines, guzzling booze, and desperately seeking dalliance with equally spaced out damsels, our hero ekes out a living in the capacity of a … Continue reading Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) In the autumn of 2020, novelist Ella Ferrante was invited to give three lectures at the University of Bologna on three successive days. Open to the entire city, these lectures followed a storied tradition established by the stellar novelist Umberto Eco, in his then capacity as the Director of the Scuola Superiore … Continue reading In The Margins – Ella Ferrante 

(Image Credit: my.seekweb.com) "Ten Foot Square Hut" is universally acclaimed to be one of the great masterpieces of Japanese literature. It is also an autobiography of a man who spent fifteen years of his life inhabiting a space that was just 3 metres square. Kamo no Chomei was born in an opulent family and initially … Continue reading A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity – The School Of Life

(Image Credit: https://www.phillips.com) In a collection of deeply technical essays, practising psychoanalyst Adam Philips in "On Getting Better" deals with a variegated set of experiences relating to the quest for self-improvement. A child slowly but surely gets used to missing her mother and getting used to people who are for her "not-mothers" and in the … Continue reading On Getting Better – Adam Phillips

(Image Credit: https://www.fortomorrow.eu/en/for-you) When she sought out her PhD thesis advisor at the University of Chicago, he basically told her to get lost. The man was under the firm conviction that women had no place in Science. Another  condescending and misogynistic faculty member asserted that neither she nor any other woman would ever teach his … Continue reading Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus – Maia Weinstock

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.con) Booker Prize winning author Richard Flanagan claims that “Too Loud a Solitude” achieves more in its 98 pages than most writers do in a lifetime. An unsuspecting reader may be forgiven for misconstruing such a lofty assertion for downright impudence. Until he/she reads the book that is. I was also one such … Continue reading Too Loud a Solitude – Bohumil Hrabal