The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
Meet the Champaca Staff
What better time than our birthday month to introduce you to the Champaca staff — read about them, and books that they have picked especially for you. Find all their recommendations on our online store.
Book Review — Wanjiru Koinange’s “The Havoc of Choice”
For this month’s book review, Radhika Timbadia writes about Wanjiru Koinange’s debut novel The Havoc of Choice. Buy her book on our online store.
May Recommendations — Reading for an Indian Summer
Indian summers come in many shades and flavours. Your experience is defined by where you live (geography), your family (history and culture; caste, class, and gender) and even where you are in your life. Some of us remember summers in terms of childhood memories of holidays, fun and games, and travel. As adults, summer is a nostalgia for those times. For many in rural India, it is a time of withdrawal from farm work and migration to cities in search of sustenance. In recent times, summer is changed by anthropomorphic climate change, which is wreaking havoc with summer and its experience as well.
Book Review — Shiromi Pinto’s “Plastic Emotions”
In the first of our book reviews, Pooja Saxena writes about Shiromi Pinto’s speculative novel inspired by the life of twentieth century Sri Lankan architect and feminist icon, Minnette de Silva. Buy the book from our online store.
Reading in the Times of Coronavirus
Is there a way to explore reading to make sense of life in lockdown? What is certain in these times is uncertainty, and as we explore this through books, is there a way ahead? Thejaswi Shivanand writes.