Tales of Avya

Reading was my favorite hobby in childhood. So back then, I had read very few books like the weekly Champak books, Panchatantra stories, and some mythological series like Ramayana and Mahabharata. Also, some short stories too. Well, this seemed like a very small collection for me. Like, "that's it? Only these?" But yes! I couldn't read more books then. I was allowed to concentrate only on my studies and read my textbooks. Whenever I asked for fiction or a non-fiction book, I was just told to read my textbooks and that would be enough. That was difficult for me. Then the only thing I was able to do was to think, "I will read more books when I grew up". This was a belief of a nine-year-old me. It was silly of me how I thought that once I finish my education, i.e., when I complete reading all the textbooks as per the wishes of people near me, I could do a lot of reading. Oh! That was once me thinking I could be as free as to read so many books once I grew up. H...

Genre: Memoir "Becoming" is that book which I picked up on a whim. I didn't even know why I wanted to read it. Once I read a third of it and left it unread for about a month. Well! I picked it up again this June with a firm decision to complete it. And wow! I did it, now wondering why is that I left it like that then? It is a pretty awesome book! The book on one side feels like Michelle Obama's strive to strike the perfect balance in her life. And how successfully she achieved it. She was very clear in portraying her life. Michelle Obama expressed the timelines of her life so reasonably in the book. Clearly, her connection of the incidents from her earlier life to those later in life as lessons learnt shows how we learn from our own experiences. This is a kind of realization to me that how important are the experiences in one's life. I think this book is a perfect one to be read by an adult woman managing her job on one side and a family on the other side. Her exp...