On Valentine's day 💘 Books

 Cochin Book Club, at MyLibrary.

After a highly enjoyable discussion of the BOTM and other works. On Valentine's day 💘

“For mad is the heart of Love, 

  And gold the gleam of his wing; 

  And all to the spell thereof 

  Bend when he makes his spring. 

   All life that is wild and young

   In mountain and wave and stream 

     All that of earth is sprung, 

     Or breathes in the red sunbeam; 

     Yea, and Mankind.  O'er all a royal throne, 

     Cyprian, Cyprian, is thine alone!”

 

Mahesh

Meet the Savarnas - Indian Millennials Whose Mediocrity Broke Everything by Ravikant Kisana

Vineeth 

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck 

Philip

PG Wodehouse

I mentioned The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann.

Gopal

Orbital - Samantha Harvey

Satheesh MK 

The Morningside - Téa Obreht 

Bright Ages - Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry

Tapomayiyude Achan - E Santhosh Kumar

Kali by Aswathy Sreekanth 

Madhavikutty - Pranayakadhakal

Dr. Unnikrishnan 

Waiting for Jonathan Koshy - Murzban Shroff

Nandakishore

Skin Folk - Nalo Hopkinson

In Xanadu by William Dalrymple- Dr. Rajesh

An Odyssey of the Mind - Narendra Murthy - Harris 

Jessica

Grumpy Darling - Alexandra Moody

The Stethoscope Meets the Scalpel - Dr. Jimmy Mathew 

Midnight's Children - Nandita

The Maniac 

Selma 

The Banker Who Refused to Walk Away - Swami Raj 

The Polyester Prince

Nirmala

The Elsewhereans - Jeet Thayil

They Will Shoot You Madam - Harinder Baweja 

Mary 

There Are Rivers in the Sky - Elif Shafak

Sharika

This Life at Play - Girish Karnad

Auggie and Me 

Raji

Dream Count - Adichi

Krishna

Khasakkinte Ithihasam

Against the Gods

The book is “Against the Gods: The remarkable story of Risk”

Unnikrishnan 

Nocturnes - Ishiguro

Censoring an Iranian Love Story

Paulose 

Mushiyaatha Nottukal - C Prakash 

A Kind of Meat and Other Stories 

Jyotsna

Njaanabhaaram - E. Santosh Kumar

[14/02, 22:45] PHILIP ABRAHAM CBC: I can't think of a better way to end Feb 14 than by reading The Courts of Love.

The story of the dauntless and matchless Eleanor of Aquitaine. The only woman to have been married to a Roi de France and a King of England. 

She is said to have presided over the  Courts of Love (or "Courts d'Amour") which  were tribunals where questions of romantic etiquette, courtly love, and chivalric behavior were debated and judged, in 12th-century France.

Probably, not factually true, but when you have seen Queen Kate flash her magnificent eyes at Peter O'Toole on the big screen , you want to believe it really happened !

[14/02, 23:14] Raji Nair CBC: One of my favourite love story is Desiree. It is the story of Napolean's first love and how he marries Josephine for political reasons. The book ends with Desiree becomes the queen of Sweden.

[14/02, 23:20] PHILIP ABRAHAM CBC: Love can be perilous 😄

The tale of Queen Samaris and her love for the Phantom is a cautionary tale 🙃

Thank you for reminding me of this book. Hers is a fascinating story. Loved by two men. One, who become an Emperor and the other, a King. Both children of the Revolution.

Many great historical epics and romances were published in the 1950s. 

A few I recollect, 

The Egyptian

 Agrippa's Daughter

Spartacus

There was one about a Philistine queen 

 

Historical fiction fans, help me here !!!!