So I'm sinking my teeth into this one and even though I've not read it before its like rediscovering a dish from childhood that you once loved but didn't get to savour again, for a long time. And the delight you feel on stumbling upon it again. This particular image of Gandalf walking through a lush green wood, with the rain making everything mystical and yet so inviting, is a favourite.
#LOTRchapteraday #inotherwords #tolkien #thehobbit
so-soRead this over 2 days. Not because it is an excellent thriller but because it is a reasonably swift page turner, which is the least any thriller ought to be in order to be called one. Although not the most exciting whodunit, the writing is promising for a debut, with possibly better things to come. I've still to read The Woman in Cabin 10 though. Kill time before you doze off with this one.
#inadarkdarkwood #review #ruthware #inotherwords
Excited to read this one as part of the #LOTRchapteraday
Thanks @freyaheart for a great pick as a group read.
An interesting fact about The Hobbit that I came across: There is no female character in the book - the only woman mentioned by name is Bilbo's mother, Belladonna Took.
Do share more fun facts that you know about this or other works by Tolkien. Happy reading!
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"It had become a routine of Ifemelu's visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them, and then on the Saturday of Ifemelu's visit, while Bartholomew was out and Dike upstairs, she would spill them out on the table, and turn each one this way and that, to catch the light."
#americanah #chimamandangoziadichie #inotherwords
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk contains some beautiful and evocative sentences about this state of being and how it can influence the shape of being.
#astrangenessinmymind #orhanpamuk #inotherwords
Loneliness is an indescribable malady - and yet one which can, perhaps, be called a fount of wisdom. Although, occasionally, it chooses irrationality to have a drink with; it also allows itself to be examined by objectivity, albeit discreetly - so that genuineness has a chance to thrive.
#astrangenessinmymind #orhanpamuk #inotherwords
Here are two of a series of letters written post partition by Manto to "Uncle Sam" that not only reflect his own wit, writing genius and the ethos of that era, but make for delightful and relevant reading even and especially now, more than 5 decades later..
http://www.alhamra.com/Excerpts/LettersExcerpt.htm
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/third-letter-to-uncle-sam
#manto #unclesam #letterstounclesam #shortstories #inotherwords
"I had seen Siraj once or twice. She was really skinny but beautiful, and her prominent eyes over-shadowed every other feature on her oval face. When I saw her for the first time on Clare road, I was puzzled. I wanted to tell her eyes, ‘Excuse me, please move aside a little so I can see Siraj.‘ Needless to say, it didn‘t happen."
#manto #shortstories #shortstory #inotherwords
For the love of Manto.
Saadat Hasan Manto's stories, dark as they may be, leave your heart that much lighter for the whittling down it endures whilst reading them.
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