When I read a book, particularly a good one I need some time to think after finishing it. Which means I have a hard time starting a new book and focusing on it. I try to pick something to read immediately afterwards but I know it won’t work. I put the new book down. It’s not as if the book […]
Book Musings: A House for Mr. Biswas
Once in a while, I come across a book that gives me hangover for days after finishing it. One such book is the first work of V.S. Naipaul – A House of Mr. Biswas. I had bought it almost three years ago but I kept putting off reading it because I thought it would be tedious to read almost 500 […]
Agatha Christie Day
I started reading Agatha Christie about 12 years ago when I had bought N or M? from my hometown’s old and famous bookshop, Good Books. I had picked it up on a whim not knowing what to expect. I had heard of Agatha Christie vaguely but I had not read any of her books before. I am glad I did […]
Book Musings: Underland
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane I had bought this e-book in a sale a couple of years back but I deferred reading it because I don’t like reading longer books (more than 350 pages) in Kindle (I love holding fatter paperbacks, highlighting passages and placing post-it notes/page markers as I read along). But, now my unread list […]