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I’m principally against gifting (on Rakshabandha

I’m principally against gifting (on Rakshabandhan) because I believe love and support should be given freely from the heart without being vitiated by materialistic concerns. Each time there are gifts involved, they take centre stage and kill the spirit of the festival.

However..

… this time the kids had their birthday gift cards untouched and so I encouraged them to get something for each other. And although Rakshabandhan is long past, this arrived today for the daughter (from the son) - a snitch bracelet.

Needless to say, she’s beyond thrilled.

Here are a few Snitch facts if you’re a trivia seeking soul.

— A Quidditch match cannot end unless the snitch is caught, no matter how many points each team makes.

— In Quidditch there’s a foul called the Snitchnip, which happens if anyone other than the seeker touches the Snitch.

— Snitches have flesh memories - they remember the first person who touched them. That’s why they are handled with gloves and a new one is used for each Quidditch match.

PS: Meanwhile the son is still awaiting his gift!

Very impatiently, I might add.

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Hola! Hello! Guten Tag! Greetings on #BookLoversD

Hola! Hello! Guten Tag!

Greetings on #BookLoversDay.

So one day, long before Covid messed our lives, I was at a doughnut shop picking up doughnuts for the kids. As I waited for them to be packed, I overheard this young girl telling her friend…

‘… there are two representatives from each district in the game. Each one has to try to kill all the others in order to be the winner, even the other one from her own district. And all of this is telecast live across the entire Nation. It’s like a gruesome twisted reality TV show of some kind.’

Before I could stop myself, I’d tapped on her shoulder and said. ‘Hunger Games?’

She grinned at me delightedly and nodded. I’d just finished the first book of the trilogy and was still under it’s spell, and, so it seemed, had she.

How we chatted that day! It didn’t matter that she was about one third my age or that her friend was getting more impatient by the minute or that my doughnuts lay forgotten at the counter. Oh we had such fun! And to think that we were complete strangers!

Books and stories weave a strange kind of magic turning strangers into friends. Isn't it?

Have you had a bookish encounter that blew you away?

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Boiling milk is one of the most passive, hence bor

Boiling milk is one of the most passive, hence boring, kitchen tasks. And so we make it interesting by carrying a book along 😀. The trouble is, if they book is gripping the milk is gone for sure!

Mine was safe since I'm still trying to get the hang of this one, Lanny by Max Porter.

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My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing came highly rec

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing came highly recommended. It talks about a family — a happily married couple with two children. The couple commit murder together. The suspense is in he ‘How’ of it with a barely legitimate ‘Why’ for it, except that they get some kind of a thrill from it.

The premise of the murders is strange but I could have lived with that. None of the characters is likeable, that is a bit if letdown but I could have overlook that too given that this is a thriller.

My problem was with the inclusion of too many mundane details of their lives. I suppose the idea was to show what a ‘normal’ couple they were in all ways except that one aberration. However, it just got boring.

I did enjoy the last few pages and found myself rooting for one of the protagonists. And the end was well done too.

That said, this isn’t a book I would recommend. There are just too many excellent thrillers out there to spend time on an average one.

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Top Ten Best Loved Siblings From Books

Top Ten Best Loved Siblings From Books

Here are ten siblings from books I loved. They fight and argue and disagree all the time but they’re always there for each other.

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