Book review - Saturday Stories by Rashmi Bansal
Saturday Stories written by Rashmi Bansal. This book will come under the short stories genre.
The title of the book looks very simple and refreshing because Saturday is the day were most people feel happy and comfortable because it is a weekend and will be followed by a happy sunday morning. The cover image is also complemented equally along with the title because of its golden hour green image.
I like to read short stories as my palate cleanser especially whenever I have read any heavy or heart-wrenching read. Also, the other reason for me to like short stories is they are short and quick to read, and I can find different emotions and genres in one read. Now let us discuss this beautiful book Saturday Stories.
This is quite a small short story book with close to One hundred and fifty pages but within those pages, we can find thirty-five short stories. Since this book consists of quite a large sum of short stories, each story was three to five pages long max. Most of these stories are from different themes such as COVID-19, society fit-in, pain, feminism, etc. All these stories were good to read but my favorite among these thirty-five stories are Faking It (especially its ending), Flying High, and The Witness. But I really didn't like or enjoy the story that was about the pandemic.
In this book, I have found some uniqueness in that which are, among these thirty-five stories twenty-nine were written by the author herself, and the remaining six were written by the author's students during their 'Short story writing program workshop'. To be honest more than the author I kind of enjoyed the workshop stories more. At the end of each story which was written by the author, we can find one QR code and we can scan the same to find the audio bite from the author. These two ideas are absolutely innovative by the author.
This was my first read from the author and I was delighted with the cover image and the introduction for these stories which is
"A blue Knajeevaram Sari, stained with sorrow.
A Cycle pedalled furiously, while dreaming of tomorrow.
We know not how this life will unfold -
That's the theme of this book you hold."
The stories were good but they lacked depth in it, I feel like it was rushed up to complete it soon or to fit into the pages. If the stories lasted up to five to seven pages I might loved it more than this, also the genre COVID was used in many novels, books, and short stories. I really don't know why the author has brought that theme to this refreshing theme, how much ever we speak about the pandemic it creates a small discomfort for every reader.
The narration of this book was felt like butter and it moves and glides smoothly. It will be a good read for readers who have reader's block and for sure you will get over the same. Overall this is a decent and good read and since my expectation was high I felt a little low that's it.
This book review is a part of BlogChatter book review program
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