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on venba
Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian immigrant mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Players will cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations and explore in this story about family, love, loss and more. I’m beginning with the conclusion: Venba is an…
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on writing when you have -578 motivation
Motivation is one of those things that is completely elusive to me. I barely recognise and make use of it when I do have it; and most of the time, I have to find ways to compensate for its lack. Writing is hard enough on a good day when the magical elixir of motivation flows…
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on the storygraph
There are several apps out there to find new books, track your reading, create virtual bookshelves, and do all things book-related. There are even Notion templates for the same, which let you have maximum customisability. I’ve tried out several of these options over the years, including the classic Goodreads, but have never been able to…
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on reading for bingo: part 4
Honkaku. My Achilles’ heel. If I had to choose only one genre of books to read and give up everything else, it would be honkaku. Roughly translating to ‘orthodox’ in English, it is a Japanese school of writing which is somewhat equivalent to the classic ‘whodunnit’ genre in the West. Honkaku was inspired by the…
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on reading for bingo: part 3
Japanese novels are the equivalent of a black hole for me. The minute I finish one book, I am somehow found by another and then another and… Suffice to say, the following two books are translated Japanese works. (Okay, two books doesn’t warrant the description of a black hole, but there’s only so much I can…