I wonder how many of you remember the days of DoorDarshan (that’s National television in India and what some of us fondly refer to as pre-cable days). Ah, now those were the days! When television was basically about a few (read, 3) good shows and endless hours of News delivered in that beautiful newsreader monotone […]
Category: Famous Books
Land of the Seven Rivers
I’ve barely put the book down and I’m so excited I’m already writing about this. Had any of you been following me on Twitter (just fyi you can find me at Sharmistha33) you would have had fair warning. As such, this is it. Consider yourself warned for I’m about to launch into an absolute fawn […]
The Catcher in the Rye
This is one of those books that I’ve been told (Well, not told so much as read about!) is a must-read classic. I’ll admit, I’ve tried reading this book many a time in the past and barely got beyond the first three pages! Can’t say why, but that’s moot now that I’ve finally finished […]
A Woman of Substance
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s ‘A Woman of Substance’ is easily one of the most vivid and poignant books I’ve ever read – irrespective of what happens later in the series and how it seems to endlessly drag on after a point. All this, nonetheless, takes away nothing from the story of Emma Harte, the girl from […]
Emma
Have you ever met a smart, pretty young thing who, thanks to her presumptuous and patronizing ways can’t stop grating on your nerves, despite having her heart in the right place? And no, I am not talking about any young lady lawyers here. I am just describing Emma – the lady as well as the […]
