Book Talk with Young Adults
It began as a listing on our monthly calendar – Book Talk with Young Adults. For a library this must become a monthly offering but how do I gather these young adults ? Young adult reading is not often a social exercise and our reading culture is not always inclusive enough to welcome all readers […]
Adventurous Eels
As part of the Professional Development of the LiS (Libraries in Schools) team, we were asked to prepare for a Book Talk on a book from the ‘Outstanding Shelf’. I was excited about this and asked for recommendations from the other team members. They suggested different books. Yet when I stood in front of the […]
Fiction in Non-fiction
By a random chance, I found myself reading two very interesting books at the same time, last week. I have never been able to read two books at the same time, for leisure. I don’t know why I felt it necessary to read both at the same time, but once I had started them, there […]
Booktalking with technology
I met the students and faculty of Hongirana School for Excellence on a Library Audit visit late last year. Hongirana School is situated close to Sagar town and has the biodiversity of the Western Ghats with the school surrounded by nature. Within this school, rests a beautiful library building that our team had the joy […]
Picture Books: Who are they for ?
Update: For those you missed the talk, you can listen to the same here. Thanks to Frederick Noronha for recording and uploading. I love Picture Books so it was fitting for me to use the space created by the Design Centre, Porvorim for me to talk about them. I loved that there was an audience […]
Book Reviews: Mara and the Clay Cows
Written by Shirly The lost potential of a powerful folktale bothers the reader( ie, of course, me!) here. Just imagine what a play of words, images and awareness levels is possible in a story where clay cows come alive in the hands of a real cowherd,where clouds swirl around the hut of the chief magician […]
Do You Read ?
While I stare longingly at a row of possible purchases in a book shop, knowing I have the means to buy a book but confused about which good to repose those means towards.. a work colleague asks me , “Do you really read all the books you buy ?” I was astounded both by the […]
The Rabbit Problem
The problem all started when we were oohing and aahing over yet another Emily Gravett book at Bookworm. Emily Gravett is a crafty illustrator and writer. I know now she is crafty in how she presents problems to readers in delightfully creative ways and she is crafty in her skill as a fine thinker , […]
Our boat landed!
It was a good evening, talking about Boats on Land. I liked how we were able to stretch our dialogue into areas of identity, sexuality, language and forms, perspectives and stances, emotional areas, geographical spaces, intellectual dimensions and character analysis. It was a very rich discussion and I feel we talked our way into […]
Booktalk with Jeet Thayil
Booktalking is always an uplifting session at Bookworm. This month we read Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and had the honor and opportunity to talk with Jeet at Bookworm. Whenever we booktalk with the author we remind ourselves almost implicitly to behave to say what we think the author might like to hear, but with Jeet, […]