The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt seemed an apt choice for my poetry post this month, a 'fit' with my theme of 'Kings and Queens'. There are after all, two kings in it--King Francis whose realm Hunt takes us to, and the lions, kings of their own realms, though in the human arena,…
Shelf Control #2
Shelf Control, a feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies every Wednesday is all about celebrating the books waiting on one's TBR. It involves simply posting about one book on your TBR and telling everyone a little about it, when and where you bought it, and what makes you want to read it. This is my…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (7)
“Of course, Polk did use to be on the road. But the road left and it didn’t get up and follow, and neither did the Peacocks. Up until Bonnie Dee.” --Eudora Welty, The Ponder Heart (1953)
Review: Hidden Variables
My thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book. I picked this one up, while it does contain some paranormal elements, because of the description of the book which included the words ‘witnesses a murder’, and ‘to catch a killer’, and the combination of visions of the past and future and a murder…
Author Profile: Emily Eden
Emily Eden (1797-1869) is an author I might never have 'discovered' had it not been for a photo sent to me by a book friend of one of her bookshelves--and it wasn't for the books on it that she'd sent it (but the knick-knacks). Anyway, since I have to look at all the books in…
Book Review: Prithvi Vallabh by K.M. Munshi
There’s this Hindi TV show called Prithvi Vallabh running currently, and when I saw the adverts initially (still haven’t seen the actual programme), it looked interesting and on looking it up further I found that there was a book by the same name in Gujarati, based on the same historical characters. What made me more…
Shelf Control #1
Shelf Control is a feature that I've picked up from Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and the graphic/picture is from there as well. This feature is all about celebrating the books that are already on one's shelves, waiting to be read. So you write about what the book is all about, when you bought it, what…
Book Review: Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt
I first heard about The Letter for the King when I happened to watch bits of the film version (Dutch with subtitles) on TV some time ago, and when I noticed the book on NetGalley, of course I couldn’t resist putting in a request. My thanks to Pushkin Children’s Books and NetGalley for a review…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (6)
Other beings, surely, may possess an intellect that differs from ours, and produces different results, without therefore being inferior. And besides, are we, even in this little human parish of ours, such infallible judges of matters that pertain to the spirit? ―Maurice Materlinck, The Life of the Bee (1901)
Children’s Book of the Month: Band of Soldiers by Sardindu Bandhyopadhyay
The first of my ‘theme’ reads this month (my reading theme is here), and this ‘King’ in question in this one is the Maratha warrior–king Shivaji, who ruled in the latter part of the seventeenth century. More about him here. This book, originally Bengali was written by Sardindu Bandhyopadhyay, a screenwriter (for both Bollywood and…
Literary Potpourri 