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Some more Bosch in four fascinating short story anthologies …
This post is a sort of sequel to the previous one … all right and without beating about the bush, which I usually don’t to, I’ll come straight to the point … the four ‘fascinating’ short story...
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Abids … after more than a year … friends, chai, banter, and a 6-book haul of...
It was a wonderful feeling to be at Abids on Sunday among friends and books after more than a year … the lure of the book was always there, but the hook of friendship was stronger … many’s the time I...
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Birthday gift books … thank you, Shubha …
Aha … I bought these four books from the generous birthday gift that Shubha gave me in the form of an amazon gift voucher … Shubha is my cousin (sister), who went on to become my sister-in-law ... of...
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Another CF series … a new detective inspector … another Harry …
I am now in waiting mode … very impatient waiting mode, actually. I am waiting for the next ‘DCI Banks’ novel, Sleeping in the Ground. The e-book is out, I think, but I am not sure. I am waiting for...
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So many Marlowes ... a centennial tribute anthology for Raymond Chandler ...
I had managed to collect all of Hammett’s novels and I wanted to see if any used Chandler novels were available with dealstar on amazon. Oh, lots were available, but while I was searching for Chandler...
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Lines on land and water: Reading Pradeep Damodaran's Borderlands
I was browsing for travel books. And I like theme-based travel chronicles, which means I was specifically looking for books where the writer travels to and stays at different places, and her/his...
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A small haul at Abids … 2 Parkers & a new writer and the 'almost' new Rushdie...
A couple of weeks ago, on one such day, Vinod had called late in the evening. There was some general chit chat and news that Srikanth, one of our Abidian book-hunter friends, is getting married in...
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Three from the Hard-Boiled Master …
When I bought those volumes of short-stories by the hard-boiled masters, Hammett and Chandler, sometime in February this year, I had identified some novels by Chandler which I don’t have and haven’t...
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… and two from a ‘hard-boiled’ Hammett admirer … and the ensuing edition...
… and I have also been eyeing these two books for quite some time … lots of eyeing going on, actually … and only dealstar on amazon had them under the used-books category … one is the ‘prequel’ to The...
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More hard-boiled … more ‘Travis McGee’ novels …
Sometimes this idle aimless browsing leaves you in a dilemma … here I was at a loose end and found myself looking for novels by Ross Macdonald … totally unintended … yeah, it is true that secondhand...
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A Sherlock Holmes story written in Kannada in 1916 by Kerur Vasudevacharya!!...
Translation Today in its latest issue (Vol. 11 No. 1, 2017) has published my English translation of Kerur Vasudevacharya’s short story Vismayajanakavada Himseya Kramavu titled An Astonishing Method of...
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A bountiful haul at Abids on 19th November …
As if to compensate for letting me return home with an empty bag on the previous Sunday, Abids bestowed a bounty of 8 books on me on Sunday the 19th… ah well, but I am running ahead of my story … Vinod...
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Off to Mediaeval England with Brother Cadfael, the Benedictine Detective …
As soon as I started reading A Morbid Taste for Bones, a novel I found at Abids during my previous visit, I knew this would happen … it happened more sooner that even I anticipated … A Morbid Taste for...
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Some more Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer detective novels
I had seen and lost some secondhand Ross Macdonald novels some months back due to procrastination (ooh …) and also due to some vague sort of discontent regarding pricing … then I felt I was overacting...
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The final months leading to 2018 was an anxious one. A bit tense too. I didn’t want either and also didn’t want the reason for these two. In November I got to know that I would be transferred from...
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Stopping by Abids on a January morning … first in 2018 … got a pearl ...
It was last Sunday actually, in the midst of festival holidays that I shook off some blues and went to Abids. I reached early, according to Abids Sunday standards and saw that some sellers were...
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More Cadfael mysteries … what to do, couldn’t resist the Cadfael world …
After I found the first Cadfael novel, A Morbid Taste for Bones, at Abids in November last year (chronicled here) and started reading it, I found myself getting drawn into this medieval world of 12th...
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A somewhat unusual book haul at the Hyderabad Book Fair 2017 (held in 2018!!) …
We, Shruti, Mamoon, and I, had planned this visit, some time back and yesterday, the 26th of January was a sort of ¾ holiday, and so all of us went to NTR Stadium in the afternoon. Vinod had already...
View Article300 posts down and 10 years of blogging …
My previous post on the books haul at Hyderabad Book Fair was my 300thpost on my blog. I started blogging in January 2008 and it is ten years now. The first year was wonderful. I had the enthusiasm...
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My Pelikan M800 is restored and dazzles ... thanks to Hari and the Pelikan...
I used to write about Indian handmade fountain pens regularly till 2015. I had managed to track down quite a few handmade pen makers and pen brands in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, got fountain pens...
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