Hindustan Times
I enjoyed many more books this year than I can possibly list, but the following – as with all lists – is selective and subjective. Books on the list are not necessarily ones that were published in 2012; rather, they are books I enjoyed reading this year. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, December 31, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged 2012, Books, hindustan times, Howard Jacobson, Jeet Thayill, John le Carre, Julian Barnes, news, Simon Kuper, Soumya Bhattacharya, Zadie Smith
One can’t spend the last week of the year without making at least one ‘best of’ list. This list isn’t, by my reckoning, a list of the best books of 2011. Rather, it offers a compendium of some of the books I have enjoyed and admired this year. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, December 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged 2011, A Tragic Honesty, Alan Hollinghurst, Aravind Adiga, BCCI, Blake Bailey, books of 2011, David Peace, Ernest Hemingway, First Forty Nine Stories, Gideon Haigh, hindustantimes, Jeffrey Eugenides, Julian Barnes, lalit modi, Page Turner, Siddhartha Deb, Soumya Bhattacharya, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Damned United, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Last Man in Tower, The Marriage Plot, The Sense of an Ending, The Sphere of Influence, The Stranger's Child, Tracy Chevalier
Ernest Hemingway is one of the first great writers we read as adolescents. By the time I was 19, I had – like many of my friends – exhausted his entire oeuvre. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged A Moveable Feast, Books, England, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald, First Forty Nine Stories, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Julian Barnes, Men Without Women, nobel prize, Page Turner, The Old Man and the Sea, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
I have broken a rib and have taken up residence in the land of pain and ill health. Here, the rules of existence are very different. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Alphonse Daudet, Darkness Visible, existence, hindustan times, ill health, In the Land of Pain, Joan Didion, Julian Barnes, land of pain, National Book Award, news, The Year of Magical Thinking, William Styron
As part of its Christmas books special, the Guardian did a wonderful, imaginative thing. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, December 27, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Filed under Page Turner · Tagged Christmas, Ernest Hemingway, Guardian, Happy new year, Julian Barnes, London Library Magazine
Trashing writers – trashing some of England’s leading writers, no less – is what Gabriel Josipovici felt like doing at the end of last month. Read more
(6 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, August 16, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged Gabriel Josipovici, hindustan times, Huffington Post, Ian McEwan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julian Barnes, Junot Diaz, Martin Amis, Michael Cunningham, modernist, Oxford University, Salman Rushdie, Sussex University, Weidenfeld
