Pooja Sodhi's Blog
"But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they ,merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignore weddings... Continue Reading →
A little late to the party, but I loved the book The Ride Of A Lifetime by Robert Iger of Walt Disney fame. The Ride Of A Lifetime is not just a memoir of Iger's professional journey but also of his life's lessons and experiences. And he shares it all - if you want a... Continue Reading →
This last week I finally read How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, a newly released book that was a self Birthday gift couple of months back. A book that is timely in many respects - some people (organisations, agencies or publications) prefer to call it climate emergency rather than climate disaster or... Continue Reading →
The Age Of Pandemics 1817-1920 How They Shaped India and The World by Chinmay Tumbe is a well researched book to add to the must-read history of India that has been forgotten and ignored. A book written while the nation and the rest of the world was and still is in the grip of yet... Continue Reading →
As the year began, on one cold, rainy, and foggy morning in Del-NCR a conversation in one of the WhatsApp group caught my eye - discussing what else but weather. Someone described it as "raining cats and dogs here ... wretched weather" - and just reading those words plummeted the mood. The reply came from... Continue Reading →
Come, winter, come! and with thee bring - thy season of literature festivals. And with them what I call the season of Litfest syndrome. A trend that started with Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006; JLF has become a Mecca for authors, publishers and book lovers who throng the small town at the peak of sometimes... Continue Reading →
We, the readers, are constantly on lookout for new authors. With the Bookstagrammers or the book Instagrammers, Kindle recommendations and Twitter, the task has become very easy with plethora of options in the last few years. Earlier we had to rely on few book reviews in newspapers or magazines, recommendations from friends and one's own... Continue Reading →
The launch of new book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni made a huge splash on Twitter towards the end of last year or may be it caught my eye because I follow many authors and book publishers to get the book references to read in future. But I had not read any of her books till... Continue Reading →
I read Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice at least once every year, today I was channel surfing to at least watch the movie, it wasn't showing anywhere and neither it was available on Netflix or Amazon Prime - so it's back to the ever classic book for tonight's reading. https://poojasodhi.com/timeless-reading-pride-and-prejudice/
The end of a calendar year is a time for retrospection, and it results in many year-end lists by journalists across the spectrum of fashion, movies, tech, music, political news and my favourite genre - books. Reading a blog by Sunil Sethi and an article by Seema Goswami (both of whom I follow to get... Continue Reading →
I have been meaning to read Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies ever since it was released in 2010. However, the morbid subject matter made me pushing it back on my reading list. But over the years, I have come to hear about a new cancer case atleast once a week on an average,... Continue Reading →
I have been wanting to read Jawahar Lal Nehru's Discovery of India for some time now, the reasons are many including the need to remind myself of India's history which is hazy in my mind now. I have also been wanting to read on India - its culture and traditions, people, it's impact on the world and... Continue Reading →