[amazon_link id=”0670023442″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : How It All Began Author : Penelope Lively Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Viking Pages : 229 Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Dame Penelope Lively’s “How it all began” starts off with a violent mugging. A frail old schoolteacher Charlotte Rainsford is pushed to the […]
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2011 : The Year in Review
2011 was the year of the ARC. I read more Advance Reviewer Copies than the previous years, so much so that I barely got to my own Reading List! I entered 2 Reading Challenges and got started on the Sunday Salon Posts. I completed the GoodReads 2011 Reading Challenge (Goal of 15 books) and Stainless […]
Read the rest of this entry »And here it comes!
The great weather I mean. After that harsh, and what felt like ever-long Texas drought, it is good to step out in the morning and see the outside temperature lower than that inside the house. It’s started getting cooler since the end of September, and I’m looking forward to the evening walks and lake-side bike-rides. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Words to remember: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
[amazon_link id=”030737839X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ] [/amazon_link]I’ve finished reading the most recent book of the “No. 1 ladies Detective” series. Of course, it is no secret that I am a super huge fan of Smith’s work and Mma Precious Ramotswe is my favorite female fictional character. Smith weaves truly interesting tales around his main characters […]
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Earlier I’d posted an entry for the Favorite Female Character contest at Women’s Web. This was fun to write, since I do enjoy the series and Mma Ramotswe is the main reason the series is what it is. If you haven’t read these wonderful books yet, do go find them; they are well-worth the time. I […]
Read the rest of this entry »The poems of Udaan – II
[amazon_link id=”B005C2TKLQ” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Here’s another poem from Udaan (here’s the first), besides this other one which I liked very much. The Hindi lyrics are courtesy Happy Garg’s blog post, and my translation follows : Jo lehron se aage nazar dekh paati toh tum jaan lete main kya sochta hoon, Wo aawaz tumko bhi jo bhed […]
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[amazon_link id=”B008C7OYUK” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I recently reviewed the film Udaan at my Movie Review Blog. And one of the lovely things about the movie (among the other lovely things) was it’s heartfelt poetry. Here is one poem (and here is another) by Amitabh Bhattacharya that I’ve managed to find on the internet (courtesy Abhijit Bhaduri’s blog). […]
Read the rest of this entry »Impressions of Paris : The Opera
The Paris Opera (Opera de Paris) is a beautiful and sprawling building, and since it was located quite close to our hotel we walked there quite often (2 Metro stations in the vicinity). Call me ignorant, but I did not know what it was, although I walked around the building marveling at it’s ornate structure […]
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