Sravika's Books - Reviews and Other Trivia

Kafka on the Shore  By Haruki Murakami  Rating 3/5  Genres: Metaphysical, magical realism, fiction, mysticism,2022-read Man! What the hell is this book? What is it about? Don't get me wrong. I am not giving this a lower rating because it's prose is bad/ unreadable or the story/plot is not good or any such thing..its purely because I didn't really get the crux of what the author is trying to tell. Its highly addictive but the story he is trying to narrate is lost on me. I want to find someone, anyone - who has read this book and totally understood every aspect of it. Like who can answer all the questions as to what the heck is going on..whats the meaning of a certain episode, the motivations and significanceof a certain act.. I also bet there won't be any two people who read this book and take away the same thing home..it seems to strike a different chord for each reading and for every person.. The three main characters are Kafka Tamura, Sabato Nakata and Mis...

The Ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Tags: Mysticism, Magical realism, fiction, horror, fantasy, alternate world, dark fantasy, good prose, 2021-read Rating 5/5 😍 I loved this book so much! I am so grateful to authors like Neil Gaiman who don't seem to really inhabit - atleast in their heads - the same droll and mundane world that we do. They live in fantastic universes constituting magical creatures that are both good and evil. His prose is a flowing river that sweeps and consumes  it's reader away into the world it's creating. I liked to inhabit it so much and didn't want to come out that I read the book  "cover to cover" - not even stopping at the acknowledgements page as I usually do. 🙃🙃 The narrator of the story is a small boy of age seven whose life is forever changed when unusual things start happening in his neighborhood. People get money out of nowhere and there are also unexplained suicides,murders and other unpleasant events. A black m...