ernest hemingway

Five Books about Ernest Hemingway and what rocked his world (and his boat)

6 years ago Shaili Desai 0

I have to thank my Uncle A for encouraging a love for reading. His annual holiday to India meant that he would inevitably ask us all – What should I bring for you? My earliest collection of books had yellow coloured hardcover copies of the first seven books in the Nancy Drew Series, a couple of Read More

Because the sun also rises, and for Hemingway

7 years ago Shaili Desai 1

The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway is not one of his books that he is renowned for. Released in 1926, it received mixed reviews, although since then, it has often been hailed as Hemingway’s most meaningful work. Now, I have tried (and failed) to read this book thrice. However, I have an excuse for Read More

Ernest Hemingway’s Key West Home (PICTURES)

10 years ago Shaili Desai 2

As per an article by Huffington Post, it’s been sixty years since Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (Old Man and the Sea). I was reading this and other stuff on Hemingway on the internet and tweeting at the same time when one of my friends tells me he has been to Ernest Read More

A Room Without Books

11 years ago Books And A Lot More 3

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero Yeah, yeah, I know, that’s probably one of the most worn-out quote ever used. But I never quite thought realized the truthfulness of this statement till 2005 happened. That was when I left home for college. Before that, the book shelves Read More