Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 30 March 1820, Anna Sewell turns 200 today. Her father, Isaac Philip Sewell was a bank manager and later commercial traveller (Wikipedia also mentions him running a shop) while her mother Mary Wright Sewell was a successful author, who wrote children's books. Anna first learnt to ride when she…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (102) #Quotes #Classics #JaneAusten
The distance is nothing, when one has a motive...Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) Image source: Pexels
Pretty in Blue: Some Favourite Book Covers
A lighter post today--more pictures than writing. Last year, I had done a post on some book covers in black that are favourites (here), both ones I had read and ones I was (and in some cases am) yet to read, but essentially those that stood out to me or that I liked simply for…
Book Review: Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett #MarchMagics #Discworld #Citywatch
Some weeks ago I came across #MarchMagics on Chris’ blog (here)—reading the books of Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett in March. I haven’t read Wynne Jones so far (though I will eventually), but since I had a few of Pratchett’s books waiting on my TBR, I decided to join in and pick one up.…
Shelf Control #83: The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black #Fantasy #YoungAdult #TBR
Wednesday, the 25th of March--Shelf Control time once again! Shelf Control is a feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. It is a weekly feature, and appears every Wednesday. To participate, all you do is pick a book from your TBR pile, and…
Bookquotes: Quotes from Books (101) #Quotes #Classics #JaneAusten
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) Image source: Pexels
Shelf Control #82: Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor #TBR #Fantasy #YoungAdult
Wednesday, the 18th of March--time again for Shelf Control! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. It appears every Wednesday. To participate, simply pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Book Review: Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer #BritishCrimeClassicsChallenge
One of the reading challenges I'm doing this year is #BritishCrimeClassicsChallenge hosted by Rekha at the Book Decoder (here) where one reads crime,mystery, or thriller books (British of course) published before 1965. Detection Unlimited (1953) is the third book I'm reading this year that falls in this category. This is the third of the series…
Shelf Control #81: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Wednesday, the 11th of March--time again for Shelf Control! Shelf Control is a weekly feature hosted by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. It appears every Wednesday. To participate, simply pick a book from your TBR pile, and write a post about it--what its about,…
Indian Fictional Detectives-III: English Fiction
In the first two parts of this post (here and here), I wrote about Indian fictional detectives from books in different languages (Bengali and Tamil only, as these are what I've been able to find so far). I do plan on adding to that list in further posts, but in this one, I'm taking a…
Literary Potpourri 