There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
"We will not have any Dickens today ... but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that...."As part of Charles Dickens bicentennial celebration, Amanda @ fig and thistle, is holding a Charles Dickens Month, this January. So read, review, and write about Dickens as part of the celebration.A lot is already known about … Continue reading Charles Dickens Month: The Man Who Liked Dickens
Sometime I think that dealing with the Nazi past was not the reason for the generational conflict that drove the student movement, but merely the form it took. Parental expectations, from which every generation must free itself, were nullified by the fact that these parents had failed to measure up during the Third Reich, or after it … Continue reading ‘The Issue itself": Present Day Germany and the Nazi Past in The Reader
There are certain books that lie with you for years but somehow you either don’t get the chance to read them or keep putting them off on some pretext or the other – better finish the book borrowed from the library, keep it for a ‘rainy day’, read it when you are a particular mood, … Continue reading CELEBRATING THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF LIFE: PAPA’S WIFE
To all those who love nothing better than curling up with a good mystery, here's a wonderful site:http://www.topmystery.com/home.Easy to navigate, the site has recommendations for authors, books, movies. There are also links to other sites as well as online resources available for download. Had a most enjoyable time visiting the site.
Love was one thing, sin was another – and although it was difficult to tell love from sin, Trina had learnt to identify some of the signs.Ties that bind human beings together are difficult to unravel. What is that which holds a man with a woman? Love? Affection? Pity? Or simply a necessity, a need … Continue reading Ties that Bind: There was No One at the Bus Stop
"As I felt my way along the wall, I encountered other men who were coming from the opposite direction, and each time when we hailed each other I stepped away from the wall to make room for them to pass. But the third time I did this, when I reached out my hand, the wall … Continue reading A Twist in the Tale: In the Fog
It began on a summer afternoon in July, a month of intense heat, rainless skies and scorching, dust-laden winds.His eyes fell on the headline and unconsciously it registered on his brain.RACE TRACK BANDITMAKES CLEAN BREAKWITH TWO MILLION.Quite suddenly, a desire to read pulp fiction gripped me…hard. Since taking the metro to Hardayal library, which has … Continue reading The Best Laid Plans: Two Books and a Movie
"I had sought out my father because I couldn't live with the darkness of not knowing him."Absent fathers make for haunting presence. Think of Hamlet, Ghosts, and The Glass Menagerie.Aatish Taseer's first book: Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands is a young man's search for his father who like the father in … Continue reading Journey of the Self: Aatish Taseer’s Stranger to History
He walked slowly across the room until he was standing face to face with Brat by the window. He had abnormally clear grey eyes with adarker rim to the iris, but they had no expression in them. Nor had his pale features any expression. He was so tightly strung, Brat thought,that if you plucked him … Continue reading A Pit in Dothan: Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar
Then he looked into the mirror above the basin and, for the first time in his life, experienced sheer terror...Usually I steer clear of espionage thrillers because if the story is set during the two world wars then one can be sure that Germany would come to a sticky end and if it is a cold … Continue reading Are you who you think you are? Desmond Bagley’s The Tightrope Men
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