I was curious about these questions of late:
Anyone on this lists borrow books regularly from libraries in Bengaluru ?
Are there any ebook lending libraries around in Bengaluru ?
That said, which has been the best historical fiction that one would
recommend to me ?
Non-fiction recommendations
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com
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I was curious about these questions of late:
Anyone on this lists borrow books regularly from libraries in Bengaluru ?
Are there any ebook lending libraries around in Bengaluru ?
Sorry, scratch the ebook
In terms of historical fiction, two words leap to mind: Aubrey and
Maturin. Which is to say, a very long and pretty well 100% excellent
series in the British Naval Fiction genre by Patrick O'Brian.
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com
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I was curious about
Fully agreed. I have the entire set (also in pdf format besides paperback)
and have reread the canon maybe over a dozen times so far. It reads like
dickens would if he ever turned his hand to naval fiction.
And I know ex Navy types and people who have actually built and crewed
replica 19th
On Mon Nov 03 2014 at 1:21:36 PM Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com
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That said, which has been the best historical fiction that one would
recommend to me ?
Non-fiction recommendations are also welcome.
A few historical non-fiction books I read recently and really enjoyed:
1. 1491:
Antony Beevor's ww2 history, all what looks like 1000+ pages of it. Still
plowing through it but it looks like a stupendous read
On November 3, 2014 8:34:56 AM Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon Nov 03 2014 at 1:21:36 PM Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com
wrote:
That said, which has
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
A few historical non-fiction books I read recently and really enjoyed:
1. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
2. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
3. A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through
I use JustBooks. Not as good as a bookstore, but decent enough. Good for
all the thrillers that I used to buy, but now just borrow.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyone on this lists borrow books regularly from libraries in Bengaluru ?
For whatever it's worth (and it's not much) I named the protagonist of my 1st
novel (Acts of the Apostles) Nick Aubrey because I was deeply immersed in
reading the Patrick O'Brien Aubrey/Maturin novels at the time I was writing my
book and Nick Aubrey is as close as I could get to O'Brien's
That said, which has been the best historical fiction that one would
recommend to me ?
Have you read the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson yet? Eight volumes,
collected in three books, happily skirts the line between historical
fiction and SFF, and is both informative and rollicking at the
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