To Fall in Love with a Book
To fall in love with a Book Is to stroke its spine, with a finger lighter than laughter. Is to cling to each letter, with a grip tighter than memory. Is to siphon the ink on a page, into the veins of your soul Is to hover over semi-colons, and taste the depth of each […]
Drop Everything for the Library!
Non-fiction as a genre has always been my least favourite. It reminded me too much of the school books and text books from which we had to extract the precise information that was needed to reproduce on paper and get your marks. While fiction and fantasy could lead you into worlds and stories that stretched […]
Gift a Smile
As a Library and a resource centre, the books that we wish to acquire are never ending, ever changing, and ALWAYS on our list of ‘resources we need’. Regardless of space, capacity or limits, a Library should be all encompassing, evolving and democratic in what it represents and as a Library is represented by it’s […]
My Journey from Books with lots of pages to Books with just a few
‘What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn’t thought he saw Peter Pan’s sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship.’ Robert Cotroneo, When a Child on a Summer Morning As my childhood days fell behind, the picture books and fairy tales that made up those years […]
Bookworm Jumble Sale 2018: the place to be!
It seems to be a tradition for the library to be thrumming with a cauldron of high strung nerves, high end energy, combined with immense anticipation and excitement, during the month of January. The reason of course, being: the Jumble Sale. During this month, we are as likely to be bombarded by shouts and loud […]
Sow an Act, reap a Habit
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943 We have a new space at Bethesda Life Centre. The room is open and spacious and devoid of furniture. No chairs, no benches, no tables; just the four walls and huge open windows. We sit on […]
Of worlds beyond my own
“Come with me where dreams are born, and time is never planned…” – Peter Pan Fantasy as a genre has always been my favorite; fantasy books are the ones I come back to again and again, the ones I read and reread, the ones I analyze to the point of memorization and the ones I […]
Mister God, this is Anna By Fynn
Image courtesy: Flipkart.com There are books that one can gently devour, whose words settle satisfyingly into habitual plots and slots in the mind; there are books that once finished leave one with a sense of dissatisfaction or even annoyance; there are books that raise questions with a thoroughness that they sometimes fail to answer. And […]
Of Storytelling; By a Storyteller
‘The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling….’ With a few lines dramatized to perfection, and delivered in bold and confident strokes, Raj had all of us captive. Our ears and minds absorbed each word from her mouth, as they spoke through different characters; each pause pregnant with expectation. The captive audience […]
The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends
There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright… Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, […]