The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
Dispatches From Champaca | April 22
This April, we're thrilled about our new shelves, reflect on our favourite book-to-screen adaptations, and talk about what we've read so far in the #ChampacaReadingChallenge!
From Page To Screen: Recommendations
A collection of our favourite books that were adapted into TV shows or films.
Dispatches from Champaca | March 2022
A message from Team Champaca to you, as we mull over summer reads and opening our café again.
War and Stories
Recent world happenings made us think of a fleeting moment soaked in magic and history. With news coming out of Ukraine, Shakti revisits Soviet children's books from India's history.
The Lost Pianos Of Siberia — A Playlist
Sophy Roberts' The Lost Pianos of Siberia takes us through Siberia through the stories of its pianos. A journey through time and space, this is also a journey through music. Thejaswi Shivanand writes.
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2022
We’ve put together a list of prompts — some fun, some unusual — designed to expand our reading this year. Let’s read together to discover new worlds, and read diverse!
Team Champaca’s recommendations: The books we loved in 2021 📚
We decided to look back on 2021 through what we’ve read and loved, whether new releases or old ones, books long on our TBR, or ones we accidentally discovered on...
Book Review – Calvin Kasulke's “Several People Are Typing”
This month, Nirica recommends Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing, a satirical WFH comedy about a character who finds his consciousness stuck in Slack.
Recommendations for Women in Translation Month
August was declared Women in Translation Month by Meytal Radzinski, a scholar who took up the task of asking why there were so few women-identified authors published in translation.
Book Review – Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”
Champaca intern Ishika Somany writes about Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
‘Mohanaswamy’ to ‘Queer Intentions’: 8 Book Recommendations for Pride Month
For Pride Month, the team at Champaca Bookstore, Bengaluru, has put together a list of book recommendations for you to read.
Team Champaca’s recommendations, on our second birthday
On our second birthday, our team looks back at the last two unpredictable, whirlwind years in the best way we know how: through the books we discovered along the way.