“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I’m going to be immoderate–and volatile–I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.” In Chocolat by Joanne Harris, Lansquenet, where the story is set, is described as a quaint, sleepy little French village. There is a Church, where the villagers […]
I read the novel ‘Little Women’ for the first time when I was almost eight years old. It was an old, abridged copy, rather a children’s version of classics that my Dad had brought along with a copy of David Copperfield. This ‘Little Women’ however had beautiful illustrations of the different incidents in the story,
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Doesn’t the book bear a rather odd title? For many of us who judge a book by its title, this would be put down for not being serious, intense literature. And yet, this is a book which has a war at the center of its plot. A little research about what Guernsey is will tell
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We all know Charlotte Bronte best for her Jane Eyre. Villette is her lesser known work, a book that I stumbled upon when I looked out to read a classic. A comparison to Jane Eyre was just inevitable. My first, biased opinion was that it did fall short of Jane Eyre – even as Charlotte
I took an interest in ‘The Collectors Wife’ solely with the intention of reading something about a conflict, an insurgency or civil war. I say this at the cost of sounding elitist: I wanted to know how violence and political instability ravaged the lives of people and – with a childish sense of curiosity –
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I read the ‘Hungry Tide’ – by Amitav Ghosh when I was 20. In the second year of my BA. I knew – one day, even as the book laid on my bookshelf gathering dust, that I would be returning to it. The moment came, almost 10 years later. Either Life has come in a
Odd title, right? I am a sucker for classic novels, and would have not picked this up on my own had not my friend told me that it is written by Nisha Susan – the co-founder and writer of my favorite feminist blog ‘the Ladies Finger’. I had discovered Ladies Finger several years ago, when
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