It is our firm belief that books are not in themselves good, bad, or ugly, but that the mood of the reader makes them so. This is where we will document our reading journey by sharing the state of our soul when we searched for and chose a particular book to read, and how it interacted with the mood in which we picked it up. We hope that this will guide you towards the books you need when you need them so that the charm of reading never deserts you.
I’d like to believe it is not a reflection of my single status that, after Elif Shafak’s Forty Rules of Love, I found myself picking up another book on love—this…
From afar, Sufism may look like a mystery ball that is complicated to open and engage with, but Elif Shafak’s The 40 Rules of Love locks you in a closed…