OK I’m going to admit this right off the bat and tell you that I am a huuuge history junkie. I’m one of those people who get misty-eyed when they look at old buildings and their heads get flooded with (imaginative, hence, probably inaccurate) images of the people who must have once lived there and […]
Category: Biographies
the Zahir
So, this is Paulo Coelho’s first book I got hold of. Have heard of The Alchemist but haven’t got the chance to read it yet. People say, the Zahir begins from where The Alchemist ends, but no, you do not need to read it before you start this one. The Zahir is the story of […]
Lust for Life
That’s the title of Vincent Van Gogh’s fictional biography written by Irving Stone. A couple of weeks ago, I was killing time at Crosswords when I decided to call my best friend and book buddy Shruti. It was her strong recommendation that made me bug the store manager to locate the book which was sitting in […]