August | 2025 | Vishy's Blog
1 post published by Vishy during August 2025| Vishy's Blog
After watching ‘Encounter’, I decided to watch ‘Descendants of the Sun’. My friend tells me that this is Song Hye-kyo’s most famous series and so I was very excited. S…| Vishy's Blog
I am going through a reading slump right now. I’ve got four half-read books next to me but am not able to continue with them. My friend recommended some of her favourite K-Dramas. It has been…| Vishy's Blog
I’ve had this book with me for a while, and so I thought it was time to read it. When he was reading a book and he discovered a beautiful sentence, or a beautiful passage, Brian Dillon copied it out in his diary. Across the years, these diaries filled with his favourite sentences accumulated on […]| Vishy’s Blog
I discovered ‘The Holiday Game’ by Mihail Sebastian through Marina’s recommendation. The play was originally written in Romanian and Marina was kind enough to share her translatio…| Vishy's Blog
I got this graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ yesterday. It looked very beautiful and so I immediately paused my current reading project, and started reading…| Vishy's Blog
I’ve wanted to read the full version of One Thousand and One Nights / Arabian Nights for a long time. Like everyone else, I’d read the popular stories from it, like Alibaba and Alauddin and Sindbad, and was familiar with the main story of King Shahryar and Scheherazade. I’d read a Tamil translation of the […]| Vishy’s Blog
Have wanted to read Edgar Wallace’s ‘The Four Just Men‘ for a long time. Finally got to read it. Interesting thriller. Probably the original vigilante novel in which four people try to punish criminals who escape the law. Doesn’t have the same power today, as it must have had when it first came out. But […]| Vishy’s Blog
I’ve wanted to read a proper big version of ‘The Mahabharata’ for a long time. I read a short retelling when I was a kid. Of course, I’m familiar with the main episodes and …| Vishy's Blog
After reading the second part of Philip Pullman’s trilogy, I picked up the third part, ‘The Amber Spyglass‘, and read it in the past few days. As I haven’t talked much about the story in the previous two reviews, I’ll follow the same principle here and not breathe about the story 😄🙈 I’ll talk about […]| Vishy’s Blog
After reading the first part of Philip Pullman’s trilogy, I picked up the second part ‘The Subtle Knife’ a few days back, and I finished reading it today. ‘The Subtle Knife&…| Vishy's Blog
I always write this post at the beginning of the New Year, after the last day of the old year is done and dusted, because I always read till the eleventh hour. But this year, I’ve just stoppe…| Vishy's Blog
Peter Stamm is Switzerland’s most famous and probably greatest author today. He writes in German. His works have been widely translated and when a new Peter Stamm book comes out, it is typica…| Vishy's Blog
After reading Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘A Country Doctor’, I decided to read another book by her, ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs’. ‘The Country of Pointed Firs̵…| Vishy's Blog
After reading ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, I thought I’ll read another Mark Twain. I decided to read ‘Life on the Mississippi’. The book is roughly divided in…| Vishy's Blog
I had an office friend who used to sit in the food court at lunch time, alone, reading a book, while having his lunch. Once I went and sat with him and chitchatted with him and disturbed his tranqu…| Vishy's Blog
I’ve wanted to read ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde for a long time. Recently, one of my friends recommended it highly and so I thought I’ll pick it up and read …| Vishy's Blog
