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Alok Jha’s curiosity and care shines through “The water book”. He explains non-covalent interaction of a hydrogen bond is like a magnetic latch on a cupboard and covalent bond is like nailing the cupboard. Nobody has explained chemical bonds this well.

Sainath tells stories by keeping himself invisible and focusing the spotlight on the people whose stories are being told. He is graceful in keeping a poem about Salihan Demati Dei Sahar to not distract us from her story and shares his anger and outrage at the injustice to her separately.

From the chapter on Morocco, “Something very special: “The challenge of all that work, all that elaborate detail, and his unwavering faith in what he was doing, his disciple, his certainty that he’d chosen the right path, provoked and disturbed me in new ways. Why couldn’t I be that certain - about anything? Why had I never found anything that so commanded my attention and effort, year after year after year?

“Why was I not having the time of my life? I began to feel damaged. Broken. As if some essential organ - my heart perhaps - had shriveled and died along with all those dead clumps of brain cells and lung, my body and soul like some big white elephant of an Atlantic city hotel, closed down by wing until only the lobby and facade remained.”

My god Antony Bourdain writes so beautifully. Such a clear voice. Touching and unabashedly honest. There are words that can transport you to some corner of your life that you didn’t remember for so long. Makes you reflect on so many things about life. His attention to every aspect of food is pure love.

This book reflects Peter Wohlleben’s deep love of forests and his close observation of trees for years. trees are an intelligent species which live in an inter-connected World Wide Web. Their ability to sense time is fascinating. Just because trees live in the slow lane doesn’t mean they don’t deserve the same respect as animals. This book will make you look at trees with a new sense of awe.