HELLO. MY NAME IS NIPUN.
Avid reader on the quest to read the world
Story behind this blog
Cataloguing and organizing things is something I have instinctively been doing my entire life. This blog, for me, is only the next steps to catalogue my most serious hobby – reading.
I first started to read regularly well over a decade ago. Ten book down I realized I need to make a list, if I am to remember what I am reading; A few more books later, I added a word file to capture my favorite quotes from the books. As my reading expanded beyond Indian writers, I started plotting this on a map – naturally I also started dreaming of filling up the map.
But there was a gap – writers don’t just stick to writing about places they are born in, and not to say anything of the era the books cover – so I built an excel that captures the place and time too.
As the volume of books continued to increase – I needed better ways to remember them – so I started noting down my thoughts about the books – which eventually nerd-maxxed into multiple google forms.
The blog therefore, is something that has been years in the making – but the first one of my catalogues open to public. And while past experiences suggest that it will keep constantly evolving, it will always remain somewhat personal – for what I will try to capture here is how I want to remember each of the book I read.
Frequently Asked Questions
Simply because the blog aspires to be a more than what it is today.
While books has been where I made the most progress in my quest to cover the world, I hope to expand this blog to ensure a much larger cultural coverage
Book reviews/summaries primarily. Will include food, travel and other cultural elements over time.
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That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
Jhumpa Lahiri