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Access the pdf here A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake Hi, I've just finished reading Matthew Blake's latest novel. If you remember, he wrote Anna O that I read in 2023 when it came out and I enjoyed, so I was always going to pick up his next one. This one came out a few days ago, on the third of the month. It's a novel with two timelines, a novel about love and betrayal, so you know I was always going to like it, wasn’t I? We've got Olivia, who's a psychotherapist and a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital. She's mom to TJ, who's six, I think. One day she receives a phone call from the French police telling her that her grandmother, the famous artist Josephine Benoir, is sitting below her most famous painting in the Hotel Luticia and confessing that she's not actually Josephine Benoir. She's Sophia Clerk, and she murdered the real Josephine in 1945 in room 11. That's the start. Olivia knows that her grandmother's memory is in decline, b...

  Access the pdf here Book Review: The Whispering Delulu by Dr. Sohil Makwana  The Whispering Delulu by Dr. Sohil Makwana is a haunting psychological thriller that plunges readers into a world where reality, memory, and illusion blur beyond recognition. Set in western India, the novel masterfully combines psychology, mythology, and futuristic science, creating an atmosphere that is both chilling and thought-provoking. The story follows Mohini, a paralyzed woman who wakes up from a coma only to find her life in pieces—her memory erased, her daughter lost under mysterious circumstances, and her mind plagued by whispers of a strange entity named iGenie. Her husband Rohit, a parasitologist, stands by her side, caring for her daily needs while grappling with his own secrets. But as Mohini begins to take mysterious yellow pills, her encounters with iGenie intensify. Is this entity real, or is it a figment of her fractured mind? The novel thrives on this unsettling question, draggi...

Click here to download the pdf  Katabasis by R.F. Kuang – Summary and Review I'm going to give you a spoiler-free review of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. This is the next highly anticipated book from best-selling author R.F. Kuang, author of Babel and The Poppy War , among others. I have an early copy of it from the publisher, so thank you so much to them for giving it to me. I wanted to read this early, and I was really curious about it. It's pitched as a sort of retelling of Dante's Inferno and follows two grad students who go on a journey into hell to save the soul of their professor. That is indeed what this is. As somebody who has read all of R.F. Kuang's books, I think this is my favorite one. It might be her best one as well, in my opinion. It is so smart, compelling, and nuanced, with many layers at which you could read it. If you've never read Dante's Inferno , are not familiar with academia, or haven't read philosophical works, you could still pick t...

Click here to download the pdf  The Ayodhya Alliance by Ashwin Sanghi Book Summary The Ayodhya Alliance . So the story is not limited to India only. This time Ashwin Sangi has taken this story to other countries. This story travels in many continents and travels in their history as well as present time. Apart from India, it also travels in Thailand, Rome and many other countries, that is, Korea 2000 years ago and currently South Korea. So this story travels in all these countries and in different timelines. It goes 2000 years back. Before that, this story also goes 7000 years back in the time of Ramayana. So the story is about this ancient secret ah which is called Dalingam. Now I am not going to share with you what you know the secret is all about. Like what is that what is the lingam?  Because this is a spoiler free review. So davit lingam is an ancient secret that was shared by Raavan to Lakshman you know when he was on his death bed Raavan one you know he was on his death ...

Access the PDF Here They Fear Not Men in the Woods by Gretchen McNeil – Summary They Fear Not Men in the Woods by Gretchen McNeil is a modern horror novel that blends mystery, suspense, and eco-horror . For fans of Midsommar , Catriona Ward , and Sarah Gailey , this story unfolds like a movie with a climax that is both unexpected and unsettling. The book follows Jen Monroe, who left her hometown of Barrow, Washington , seven years earlier after her father—a forest ranger dedicated to protecting old-growth trees —vanished. Her father’s disappearance was linked to tensions between conservationists and the local logging industry . Jen always believed he was alive, but when her estranged mother contacts her claiming that his remains have been found, Jen returns home determined to uncover the truth. When her ex-boyfriend suggests a camping trip in the woods to honor her father’s memory, Jen sees it as the perfect chance to investigate. However, what she encounters in the ancient forests o...

Access PDF Here The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop By Takuya Asakura Summary The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Tayuka Takuya Ashakura and then it was translated by Yuka Mayo and I truly apologize if I am pronouncing those names incorrectly. I did not have any sort of audio book that could help me with uh pronunciation. So I do apologize but this was originally written in Japanese and was translated to English. Now this is a genre of books that I have really grown quite fond of and sometimes there are cats and sometimes there are um kind of buildings that go I guess um in the fog., I think Dollar Dream Department Store really does also embody a bit of this kind of feeling. And for me, there is a sense of fairy tale within a lot of these books that I pick up. There is a sense of dreamlike qualities as well. So, those are some of the reasons that I do enjoy picking up this genre. It's just now it's I would say it's feel good, but it's not so much feel good as...

The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris Summary Hey there. You're tuned in to the deep dive and today we're peeling back the layers on a company you probably think you know inside out: Johnson and Johnson. Absolutely. I mean, for most of us J&J is just—well, it's everywhere, isn't it? It really is as American as apple pie. You could say woven into daily life: that baby powder smell, Band-Aids, Tylenol, even really critical medicines. And they've got this reputation, right? Consistently ranked among the world's most admired corporations for decades, touching over a billion people daily, they say. Exactly. Which brings us to the core of today's deep dive. It's this fascinating, maybe deeply disturbing paradox. How can this company, so beloved, so trusted for generations with its famous credo about never putting profits before people, also be at the center of these huge ethical scandals? These massive legal battles, accusations of ...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Summary I smudged my eyeliner but that seems totally appropriate. What's so great about Wuthering Heights ? Wuthering Heights is actually one of the few books that I've read and reread a bunch of times. I'm terrible at rereading books, but if there are two books that I've read like five times, it's Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein . And Frankenstein is my favorite book ever. I also know that a lot of people don't like Wuthering Heights and I think the main reason for that, judging from the people I've talked to and friends who don't like it, is that people seem to think that Wuthering Heights is a romance novel. And it's not. It's a gothic novel, and with that comes a shadow of romance that actually, when revealed, turns out to be grudges and hatred and pain and abuse, isolation, misery, aggression, despair. It's a horrible, horrible book and I love that about it. So I think if people went into Wuth...