Reading Challenges: Vintage Mystery, Mt. TBR, Follow the Clues, and Read it again, Sam

Well, 2017 is underway and it is time to sign up for new challenges. Bev @ My Reader's Block has again offered us a bouquet of challenges. I am signing-up for the following:1. VINTAGE MYSTERY COVER SCAVENGER HUNTAccording to Bev, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to find as many objects on …

Wrap-up n Sign-up: Read It Again, Sam

The Read It Again, Sam hosted by Bev @ My Reader's Block is one of my favourite challenges because it allows me to re-read without feeling any twinge of guilt. So when Bev announced at the start of 2015 that she will not be hosting the challenge again, I let out a huge cry. A …

Challenge Complete: Hard Core Re-Reading

Successfully completed my Re-Reading Itch goal in the Hard Core Re-Reading Challenge hosted  @You, Me and a Cup of Tea.Here are the books (re)read1. Sansmritiyan by Shiv Verma2. Ve Inqalabi Din by Virendra3. A Face in the Dark by Ruskin Bond4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez5. History: What and Why by Beverley Southgate6. Mother by …

Read It Again, Sam: Wrap-Up and Sign-Up

When Bev @ My Reader's Block launched the Read It Again, Sam Challenge last year, I was extremely delighted. There were so many books that I wanted to re-read but would feel guilty about re-reading them when there were so many books there to read for the first time. The challenge made me re-read without …

In its 75th Year: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS SO PLEASE DON'T READ IT IF YOU HAVE BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK AND HAVE NOT READ AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.I was in school when I first read And Then There Were None. Agatha Christie was already a great favourite and I was searching for all her books and reading them. …

A Book for Easter: Resurrection by Lev Tolstoy

How does one react when one comes face to face with one's crime? Does one fake ignorance and turn away or does one accept one's wrong-doing and try to atone for it? This is the theme of Lev Tolstoy's last novel Resurrection, first published serially in 1899."All this happened,...because all these people... consider that there …