Lessons from Anne with an E #BookBytes

It’s time for Book Bytes and today I am making a departure from my usual format of sharing a single quote from a book. In fact I was reminded of these quotes, not from a book, but from a series based on a book. It’s Anne of the Green Gables/Anne with an E. I read …

The Curious Case of a Young Boy #BookBytes 29

Hola friends. I've been re-reading the biography of Naseeruddin Shah, the actor. I have enjoyed watching his films and some of them have stayed with me even though I watched them decades ago - Sparsh and Masoom to name two off the top of my head. In his autobiography he talks with a candour seldom …

The People Around Us #BookBytes 28

The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. True?

Just Two People #BookBytes 27

World War I. Germany has taken over France. It's Christmas Eve as a German Kommandant stands before a French girl saying: “You shall forget that I am part of an enemy army, I shall forget that you are a woman who spends much of her time working out how to subvert that army, and we …

What is ‘Natural’? #BookBytes 25

I just wrapped up Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World and while I still have to make up my mind about the book but some of its quotes were too good to not be shared. And so I've been sharing them on social media all this past week. Here's one …

Memories #BookBytes 24

After a very satisfying January where I managed to read five books (I wrapped up the Lunar Chronicles) I'll be slowing down this month. With that thought in mind I picked up Elif Shafak's 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. I've read two of her books and really enjoyed them. If this one …

City Vibes #BookBytes 23

The best way to get to know a city, after actually living there, is through a book. If only geography was taught through fictional tales I’d have absolutely fallen in love with it.

Let us make glorious amazing mistakes this year #BookBytes 22

Hola folks. Happy happy new year to all of you. I know I know I've been lax in sharing my bookish plans for the year. Year end celebrations left me feeling listless and unable to write. But as always, #BookBytes pushed me on and here I am. Today I'm not sharing a byte from a …

Who Should be Buddha? #BookBytes 21

I'd read and loved Liberation of Sita by Volga so it was with high expectations that I picked up Yashodhara by the same author. Here's a quote from the book that made me think: I can't become a path finder though I have the desire to become one. So, I must make the path of …

What’s your God like? #BookBytes 20

Welcome dear friends to another edition of BookBytes. Recently, the son received an abridged version of Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster as a return gift at one of his friend's birthdays. One glance at the book and he rejected it outright. Children can be surprisingly, annoyingly choosy about their reads. Besides, no self-respecting 13-year-old …