Variety is the spice of life

Last year started off in the worst way possible and the wringer through which the whole year put me through emotionally made me as numb as possible. But when god puts you in through those loops the only reason is to prep you for upcoming situations and with the learnings from previous experience, what would've been daunting and shaking in the boots kind of situations became calm and manageable. The biggest lesson was to fine tune the expectations. When we expect the least, whatever turns up has little impact on your thoughts and actions. It is like jumping from a 10 feet high place as compared to somewhere closer to ground. The jump may have its jolt but when you are closer to ground the impact would obviously be less felt right. As simple as that. At times it felt that the year will never end with excruciatingly hot summer and severely high EB bills. Especially the months of March and April felt never ending! And the second half of the years comparatively just romped past! Oru vel...

After triple confirming the author, finally the post!! But one thing for sure if i can feel slightly good about the entire fiasco being, how much i loved both the authors. I've read Grisham's earlier works as well, which are made into Hollywood blockbusters. He is a master when it involves courtroom scenes, but somehow felt the rest of the storyline to be dragging. King of Torts nu oru book. Vandha pudhusula padika start panni almost 2 decades aaguthu. Still haven't finished it. Despite the bias and the confusion regarding the previous book, Archera nenachu padichirunthalum, my opinion remains the same.  When i started "End game" i was actually skeptical, due to the wrong bias based on the previous book that i had misread as his, but within moments, was happily drawn into the storyline, despite it being the most recent one amongst the William Warwick series. Wasn't even aware that it was a series, but the way he had framed the characters and the familiarity wi...

One liner to begin a book review - Read the book wrapper! Second liner to continue - book padikarapo wrapper cover OZHUNGA padikavum (self note) at least author perai muzhusaga padikavum!!! After reading " The Widow" as a Jeffrey Archer novel and sharing a post about it as a Jeffrey Archer novel, i wanted to pick a different book by Archer to see if it was "any better" than "The Widow". En nalla neram, John Grisham en bloglaam padikrathilla. Or atleast any of his millions of followers. Illati court case aagi asingapatruka vendi irukum. Avvvv...oray the puppy shame moment. Enda unaku John Grishamkum Jeffrey Archerukumay difference therilaye neelaam book review podalamanu kekarathu nalla theriuthu. Irunthalum..yet another "hehe" momentnu thodachutu poga vendiyathay. How i ended up finding this is a thing in itself. When i was checking for the chronology of publication to "evaluate" (mmkum) if Archer wrote "The widow" before or a...

When every one were going gaga over the first part, i felt it would be more like art movie, considering the trailer and the snippets i saw. More of a malayalam movie in kannada. But when the second part came in to high praise from everyone, was more curious to watch and started off with the sequel and boy was i impressed!  Rishabh shetty - yaar saar neenga!! Enna oru performance!! In this age of violence driven movie where the more modern the gun and more gruesome the mode of kill, the only variety that people can think of as a story line, he goes on to make a movie, that has interesting twists naturally ingrown and considering the strong mythical background, makes for a fantastic movie watching experience. The locations, that are so rich in greenery, wonder where he found such place or was it all CG? with so much of fire and burn happening across the movie, wonder if it faced any challenge from environmentalists!! But that apart, was totally smitten by his performance and especial...

After almost 8 years since crossing the 1000 post mark, here we are at the next 500th milestone post. In fact i wanted this to be a thanksgiving day post which would've been apt considering that all thanks to this milestone was courtesy mainly due to Thala Ramesh and his "patronage" (aged patron nu padikapdaathu). But as usual, lighta late aaidichi. Still aairathil oruvar pola, namma thala, 1500 ilum oruvar. So happy to have managed this post and glad that he is still following this space enriching it with his wise words. I am literally awestruck by his comments to even the mokkaiest post and how his comments elevate the actual post and the thought process behind it. Thank you thala for being the solo source of inspiration behind all these posts. While the first 1000 took about a dozen years to reach, the next 500 have been quite slow, with the turnaround time for each post having grown more in duration and the volume having dropped to 5 a month from usual 6. Many a time ...

Movie reviews kooda nambidalam pola but online book reviewslam utterly unreliable. May be taste in movies is more relatable to a larger group of people as compared to books? While some enjoy the story line, many enjoy the pacing while there are people who look for literary essence, choice of words and language used. Book reading being a more niche group as compared to movie watchers, their choice of recommendations are quite unique to the individual involved as well. When i was checking for recommendations for thriller novels, this one came up and since Jeffrey Archer is someone i see as my English teacher was immediately into this book. It started slow, infact very slow. The pacing or the way in which the story was progressing was very unlike any of the Archer novel i had read before and considering that this was based on lawyer as a lead character, was kind of surprised at the content. At the half way mark was even wondering, if it was ghost written by someone else, considering the a...