Inane Murtaza

"I have a dream...", the first time I ever heard this speech by Martin Luther King Jr, the speech reverberated through me for a very long time. The lives of the people affected by the evils of Slavery can never be compensated and this was also depicted brilliantly in one of my favourite classics till date, Uncle Tom's Cabin. So, recently when I picked up this book, me and 2 of my friends decided to buddy read this one. Though it took me quite a bit of time to finish the book, but it felt like an achievement as it was my first book for 2018. Blurb: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hellish for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned and, though they manage to find a statio...

'A Horse Walks into a Bar', I finally picked this book up after reading a lot about the accolades the book had received including 'The International Man Booker Prize'. I did mention about my apprehensions of Booker Prize Winning books in one of my previous posts and had also mentioned about how I finally overcame it with 'The White Tiger'. So, when I came across this book, what caught my sight was its minimalistic and beautiful cover and it's weird title. A bit of a research on Google helped me uncover the mystery behind the title. Coming back to the book, the book revolves around two protagonists Avishai Lazar and Dovaleh Greenstein. Avishai, a retired judge recieves a phone call from Greenstein who asks him to attend one of his stand-up shows and judge him. Avishai keeps wondering, why he has been called to the show as they haven't been in touch with each other since childhood. They had known each other for quite a brief period which intrigued Avi...