Home to numerous languages, written and spoken (122 among these being 'major' languages), India has rich literary traditions--classical and contemporary--in many of these. With translations into English as well as Indian languages, many of these are now (or are becoming) accessible to a wider readership. A couple of years ago, I'd done a set of…
International Cat Day 2022: Some Feline Detectives
It's the 8th of August 2022, International Cat Day, so of course, its time for a catty post! Well, not just a catty post, but a cats and books post (Literary Potpourri is after all home to Keli Cat's Book Corner). Cats of course have become quite a regular feature in mystery and detective fiction,…
The Puzzle that is Lucy Snowe
Lucy, I wonder of anybody will ever comprehend you altogether?Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853) Over the April and May this year, I revisited Charlotte Brontë’s fourth and final novel Villette (1853; but it was the third to be published; her first, The Professor, was published later) with a book group on Goodreads. Villette is seen as…
Meowy Kitmas: Some Kitty Christmas Reads!
Merry Christmas, every one! Hope you all have as good a celebration as possible, with all the restrictions back again. I didn't think there'd be yet another variant rearing its head this time around as well, but I guess we must make the best of things. This time around, for my Christmas post, I have…
#NonFictionNovember: My Non Fiction Reads in 2021
While I haven't been keeping up with the prompts for #NonFictionNovember, I still do mean to sneak in at least one non-fiction read in what's left of the month, but in the meantime, here's a roundup of the non-fiction titles I have read so far in 2021. To my own surprise, I read 12 non-fiction…
Dogs in Classic Mystery Fiction: International Dog Day Post
A bookmark I received with one of my many purchases of second-hand books online 26 August 2021 is International Dog Day 2021, and to celebrate man's best friend here on Literary Potpourri, I thought of taking a look at some dogs in classic mystery books. There are of course plenty of cute dogs in the…
Cat Pun Book Titles: The Catamewtics Edition
Do you love cats? And numpurrs? Then this is the post for you! Welcome to another Cat Pun Book Titles post-the catamewtics edition! Catamewtics is the study of numpurrs, shapes, and quankities. Catamewtics offurs plenty of branches to study. If you want to learn about opurrations with numpurrs, then arthimewtics might be a good pick…
Women’s Day Post: Women-centric Retellings of Greek Mythology
Conventional tellings of mythology have long been questioned, including Greek Mythology, and in fiction and literature we have long seen versions focusing on the 'heroines' and not heroes--versions that tell their story, their perspective, and also many times question not only the dominant versions but also the perfect images of the heroes of Greek Myth…
More Cat (Pun) Book Titles
Via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felix_aprilmaze_08.jpg#filelinks Last I had a short post on Cat Pun book titles (here), based partly on some of these that a friend and I used to make up for fun. We had lists that ran into pages and pages but I still haven't found either the emails or the note pads I…
The Name is Strange #FictionalCharacters
Photo by Gabby K on Pexels.com October is the month for things strange, eerie and spooky, and in our reads too, we tend to pick up the mysterious or something with monsters, ghouls, and vampires aplenty (or even a few). Last year I had compiled a short list of some of my favourite spooky/scary reads…
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