There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
Due to one reason or the other, I have not posted for quite a while but was determined to do today's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Today's topic is a freebie in which one can pick any of the earlier topics. . I decided to do Ten Most Recent Additions to … Continue reading Top Ten (+3) Tuesday: Most Recent Additions to My TBR
Today's TTT @ That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to list books that we loved so much that we decided to own a copy of them. Well, there are quite a few books that I have on that list so for the purpose of this post, confining myself to fiction in English. Here goes (in … Continue reading Top Ten (+3) Tuesday: Books I Loved so much I had to get a copy
This week in Top Ten Tuesdays hosted @That Artsy Reader Girl, we have been asked to name top ten (or more or less) new authors whom we discovered last year. Well, last year I read a host of new authors from those whom I made a special point to read like Reginald Hill and Shelley … Continue reading Top Ten (+4) Tuesdays: New Authors 2021
There are minor spoilers in this post so please consider yourself warned. Then why did hope persist? Why this upward striving, this eternal climbing by himself and these ill-assorted people, castaways in a floating tomb, the odds on whose chances for rescue were astronomical? A group of people, herded together because of some natural calamity … Continue reading Earthshaker: The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (1969)
Of the three young men who were hanged by the British Colonial Government on 23rd March 1931, a lot is known about Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) with many books written and films produced on him. The same however cannot be said of his two comrades, Rajguru (1908-1931) and Sukhdev (1907-1931) who died alongside him. https://mobile.twitter.com/sauravk1890/status/1128521900383096832 Professor … Continue reading First Read of 2022: Shahid Sukh Dev by Malwinder Jit Singh Waraich (2016)
This year I plan to join two reading challenges which I haven't participated in earlier. Pretty delighted to have discovered them. The Backlist Reader Challenge hosted @ The Bookwyrm's Hoard asks us to set up our own goal for reading books that we have been planning to read, for years perhaps, but haven't got round … Continue reading Sign-Up: Two New (to me) Reading Challenges
There was a time when I used to read a variety of books but for long now my reading has generally been of mysteries. To bring back a little more diversity in my reading, I have long mulled over joining The Classics Club and finally here I am. Since the hosts are kind enough to … Continue reading The Classics Club (2022-2027)
An officer who is prepared to die first can demand total loyalty, only he can take his men into the jaws of death. They are Goering's golden boys, the pride of the Luftwaffe, Germany's crack paratroopers known as the Green Devils. When the novel opens, we find a unit rearing to go to their next … Continue reading #GermanLitMonth: Eagles of the Reich by Will Berthold (1957)
Because sometimes there are stories -even in an atheistic world - that do not end with the passing of the protagonist. Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess... I think all of us have heard of these names. Then there were others whom I encountered for the first time: Hans Frank, Baldur von Schirach, Martin Bormann, … Continue reading FFB & #GermanLitMonth: My Father’s Keeper: The Children of Nazi Leaders – An Intimate History of Damage and Denial
In a post that I did last year regarding the series that I wanted to begin reading, I mentioned Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series. It had been on my reading radar for several years and I had even picked up their first book a couple of years back at a book fair. From the … Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Book: A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill (1970)
a hot cup of pleasure 