Book Review

Book Review

Books / The Setting Sun: Dazai’s depiction of the dusk after the end of war

This novel would become eponymous for the death of a nation and its rebirth. 

Books / What to take away from Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking

The Art Of Asking shows us how to create a close-knit family of friends and supporters by being honest

Books / No Longer Human: Dazai’s tale of distortion, degeneration, and decay

No Longer Human is perhaps more relevant today than it has ever been.

Rifqa: A spellbinding account of persecution, courage, and survival

At its core, Rifqa is a book about human struggles in painfully inhumane circumstances.

Books / Children's books everyone should read

Children’s books might end up giving us more as adults than they did to us as children.

Books / Books to look forward to in 2023

Here are some of the books that will be hitting the shelves in 2023.

Book / Plaantik’s ode to the football culture of Bangladesh

To celebrate football culture of Bangladesh, Plaantik has launched its sports anthology.

Book / The Emerald Stone is Maisun’s confident foray into the world of fiction

Is the debut novel for Umme Maisun, Bangladesh's youngest online educator.

A book outside the ordinary

Haunting yet heart-warming with a hint of dark humour – it is a tale of two young boys and their father dealing with the loss of their mother. Needless to say, it is about grief in all its ugliness and melancholic beauty.

Artemis - A porter's guide to the moon city

I haven't read “The Martian” yet, but the reviews steaming with overwhelming appreciation definitely had me hyped for the author's latest title, Artemis. Did I enjoy my first Andy Weir book? Keep reading.

Down the rabbit hole we go

If you grew up watching Disney's animated classic Alice in Wonderland, you must have questioned a lot of the peculiar aspects or as

A Novel dripping with tragic tales of history

With the aforementioned Akan proverb, Yaa Gyasi welcomes the readers to her novel, “Homegoing”, where dark history unravels itself, reminding the readers of the slave trade that has carved its marks on history's shoulders.

A collection tinged with variety

Disconnect is an anthology comprised of 20 short stories, edited by Aadiyat Ahmad, Kazi Akib Bin Asad, Rumman R Kalam, and Zoheb Mashiur.

BooK GanG

A person's best company is books. Even in today's world filled with tabs, kindles and smart phones, nothing can beat the magic of a real book in your hands. The scent coming from the pages of a new book is incomparable to anything.

A novel swinging back and forth through time

Set in the North of London in the beginning, Zadie Smith's fifth novel, “Swing Time”, tells us the story of two childhood friends whose paths diverge as they grow up, and the challenges of growing up fuel the diversion.

Don't stop at this station

Paula Hawkins' bestselling thriller, “The Girl on the Train”, was something I was looking forward to because it was supposedly comparable to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl - a thriller that blew our minds off. Nonetheless, the expectations fumbled as I gave it a read.

An arson in utopia

“Most communities just happen; the best are planned” - is the motto of a perfectionist community, Shaker Heights.

Refugees and magic realism

To be honest, “Exit West” was the first novel I could devour in a day. This book ended up on my TBR list because 1) the hard cover is beautiful, 2) it is one of the 13 listed books for The Man Booker Prize 2017, and 3) this book is an urgent portrait of the current migration issues.

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