There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
I wanted to write a lengthy review of Christopher Douglas’ biography of England’s toughest cricket captain: Douglas Jardine. Unfortunately, it seems right now I’ll just manage to write a few lines. For those who follow cricket, Jardine needs no introduction. He was given the unenviable task of bringing back at the Ashes at a time … Continue reading Last Review of 2014: Douglas Jardine: Spartan Cricketer
I enjoyed Alan Melville’s Death of Anton so much that I was keen to read more of him and decided on this because I really need a weekend away from the nightmare that we are living right now. Jim Henderson has been trying to survive in the Post WWI years. Without any stable job and … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville (1934)
In 2012, Curtis Evans reviewed Ethel Lina White’s 1937 novel The Third Eye, very-very favourably (read his review here). As I had liked all the books that I had read of White till then it immediately went on my wish-list. But it is only now that Project Gutenberg, Australia has made it available (along with … Continue reading Forgotten Book: The Third Eye by Ethel Lina White (1937)
One of the challenges that I am excited to have back is the Birth Year Reading Challenge in which we celebrate the birthyear of either ourselves or a loved one by reading the books published in that particular year. This time round, I am honouring my absolutely wonderful bhuaji (paternal aunt) who recently celebrated her … Continue reading Reading Challenge: Birth Year 2017
Last year, I had great fun reviewing the year gone by according to this end-of-the-year-survey @Perpetual Page Turner. This year, too I am going to do the same. Number Of Books You Read: 84 Number of Re-Reads: Five Genre You Read The Most From: Mystery 1. Best Book You Read In 2014?(If you have to … Continue reading Reading 2014: End of year book survey
Lucky No. 14 challenge was hosted @ Books to Share. As the name of the challenge indicates, the goal was to read books in 14 different categories. Glad to have read books for all the categories. Here are the books read: 1. Visit The Country: Read a book that has setting in a country that you … Continue reading Lucky No. 14 Challenge: Wrap Up
Recently, I completed two books related to India (and England). The first one, Prison and Chocolate Cake, is a memoir by Nayantara Sahgal, chronicling her young days growing up during the Raj. As niece of independent India’s first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru and daughter of India’s first ambassador to the U.N., Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, … Continue reading Short Reviews: Prison and Chocolate Cake, and Forty Years of Test Cricket: India-England
Cricket is a religion in India and cricket-lovers are not merely fans but rather fanatics. And thus it is but natural that when a serial based on a cricket-series was telecast way back in the late eighties, it should become immensely popular. Bodyline, the serial, was a dramatic (some would say over-dramatic) representation of the … Continue reading ‘Bodyline’: Once Again
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