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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Booze by Boz

With 249 references to drink in The Pickwick Papers alone, Dickens is English literature's best source of winter cocktails.
— mandar talvekar Permalink: 12/26/2007
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Book Reviews

  • Secret of the Scribe by Douglas Misquita
  • The Krishna Key by Ashwin Sanghi
  • Haunted by Douglas Misquita
  • It Rained All Night by Buddhadeva Bose, Translated from the Bengali by Clinton B. Seely
  • The Wednesday Soul by Sorabh Pant
  • Tritcheon Hash by Sue Lange
  • The Iron Tooth by Prithvin Rajendran
  • Satin by Payal Dhar
  • Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
  • Conversations by Rajeev Nanda
  • The (In)eligible Bachelors by Ruchita Misra
  • No Place Like Holmes by Jason Lethcoe
  • The Beast With Nine Billion Feet by Anil Menon
  • The Five Find-Outers and Dog Series by Enid Blyton
  • What's in a Word? Fascinating Stories of More Than 350 Everyday Words and Phrases by Webb Garrison
  • Book Review: Truly, Madly, Deeply by Faraaz Kazi
  • Show Me a Hero by Aditya Sudarshan
  • If I Could Tell You by Soumya Bhattacharya
  • Turbulence by Samit Basu
  • The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
  • Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
  • The Flood: A Novel by David Maine
  • George's Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking
  • The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick
  • The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick
  • The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
  • The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3) by Rick Riordan
  • Percy Jackson and The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Tales From Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  • One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. rowling
  • Local by Jaideep Varma
  • Show Business by Shashi Tharoor
  • Eldest by Christopher Paolini, Book 2 of the Inheritance Trilogy

My Reading List

  • The Shadow Rising (Book 4 of the Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
  • Alice in Deadland (Book 1 of Alice in Deadland) by Mainak Dhar
  • George and the Big Bang by Lucy & Stephen Hawking

Selected Posts

  • Ashtavinayak (August 2007)
  • I Am Back . . . and how!
  • Oatmeal
  • How Can (Dare) a Libran Read?
  • If you are Seeking Matrimony With a Nice Computer-Engineer Girl . . .
  • Monsoon Magic: Malshej Ghat
  • How Harry Potter Might die, but the Potter Series Will Continue
  • A Bit Potty About Potter: Awaiting the Sixth Harry Potter Book
  • At the Mercy of Doctors
  • How I Almost Went to San Francisco
  • Two Ways to Answer That Pesky Call
  • Another Way to Answer That Pesky Call
  • The Alternate Universe of P.G. Wodehouse
  • Tagging Books
  • Books You Couldn't Finish Reading
  • Worst Books Ever/ The Most Overrated Books/ Purple Paragraphs
  • Where do all the Jokes Come From?
  • What is elearning?

More Pics >> Kolhapur and Narsobachi Wadi, St. Charles and Chicago, Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve - May 2012, Delhi-Agra Trip - Aug 2011, Mamachya Gavala Jau Ya, Phansad, Kashid, Korlai, Dubuque: Masterpiece on the Mississippi, Amboli, Uran - Bird Watching, Karnala, Mahabaleshwar & Wai, Matheran in the Monsoon, Agra & Delhi, Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, Flamingoes at Sewri, Mahalakshmi Temple— Kolhapur, Tulja-Bhavani Temple— Tuljapur, Ashtavinayak 2009, Bandhavgarh, Kanha, Pachmarhi, Matheran, Ashtavinayak (2007), Nepal, Benares, Goa, Malshej Ghat, Tuljapur, Kolhapur, & Panhala, Ashtavinayak, Arizona, Mahabaleshwar & Pratapgad.

Blogs I Read

  • Language Hat
  • Chiffonesque - Mukta Raut
  • Jabberwock - Jai Arjun
  • Samanth Subramanian
  • The India Uncut Blog - Amit Varma
  • Antiblurbs
  • Writing and Illustrating Children's Books - Anita and Amit Vachharajani
  • Akhond of Swat
  • Simply Speaking - Geetha Krishnan
  • narcosynthesis - Vinod Torgal
  • Blog of a Bookslut
  • Blogical Conclusion - Baradwaj Rangan

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