Category: Books and reading

I have not come across much by way of Indian detective fiction (I have heard about Ray’s Feluda series but not read any of it). And then all at once, I read several such books (with some Indian connection – the author, the detective, the setting). And I enjoyed them all, to various degrees. No… Continue reading Murder they wrote

So, like the world and its grandmother, I am waiting to read GreatBong’s ‘May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss!’ And I head to flipkart first thing this morning. His fault really – it is the first on the list on his page. Aal izz well, so far. And then I scroll down the page. And… Continue reading May I Hebb: Flipkart suggests similar books

So Kalpana Chawla was not the first. See this piece in Time Out on Sunny the Supersleuth, a short-lived seried created by the Shavurs on the exploits of Sunil Gavaskar, who apart from his known skills on field, could detonate bombs, overpower kidnappers and fly through the air like Superman. Don’t miss the quivering damsel… Continue reading Sunny the superhero

We have finally started watching the Jeeves and Wooster DVD set I bought recently. My husband and I have read each of the books so many times that it is great fun knowing what line is to come next – the anticipation and then the pure pleasure of hearing it said in those rich English… Continue reading Who will be your Jeeves?

I have been reading Where soldiers fear to tread for over a month now. It is not the sort of book you can pick up and breeze through. Anything but breeze through. follow the link and see the picture of the boy with the gun – and this is just one of the disturbing images… Continue reading “suffer the little children”

Came across this gem in what is my latest essential bedtime reading – The Third Rumpole Omnibus [as an aside, does anyone else think Rumpole would look just like the author John Mortimer whose mugshot appears on the back cover – all fat and smug and cheeky?] – in ‘Rumpole and the quacks’, he says… Continue reading The sound of perfume

Scary says Aparna of newsinlimerick – about this article in The Telegraph. Ants nibble at hospital patient’s eye. I have just finished reading Meher Pestonji’s Sadak Chhaap, a hard-hitting account of the life of street children. And I thought of the book now because that is how the “hero” of the book Rahul first discovers… Continue reading Sadak Chhaap by Meher Pestonji

How do people who have a full time job find time to read? Here I have been, hardly a month into my job and it feels like all reading has stopped. I try. Oh, I try very hard. I keep a book open on my way to work – 21 long kilometeres of car ride… Continue reading On multiplex books and Local