January 2014
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The Editorial Team wishes all readers a great year ahead. Happy New Year.
The Editorial Team wishes all readers a great year ahead. Happy New Year. Image: Gerrit Dou’s Still Life with Globe, Lute, and Books
TBR Recommends – January 2014
Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read. This month’s list has been compiled by writer, Suneetha Balakrishnan.
The Nose by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.
Salt
“… I remembered from the movie that at the end Kiera Knightly keeps getting called ‘Mrs. Darcy’ by the dark brooding guy. So I just looked up that and I got something called Mr. Darcy’s Daughters but apparently he’s not supposed to have daughters yet either.” He led her to the Austen section, in Fiction, in the A’s. How difficult could it be, really? He had heard of that new film from several years ago. But who had two hours to sit in a dark theater, can’t hear anything, can’t talk to anyone, and besides, that is valuable reading time.
Josephine’s Bath
“This yellow flower, is called Josephine’s Passion,” she told me, picking a blossom, “did you know she lived on the island, before she went to France, and met Napoleon? So, the flower is named after her, sweet, don’t you think?”
The Firing
They all knew who she was. The only question was who was going to do it. No one wanted to do it. No one wanted to say it.