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Varsha Seshan

Ragged Wolf

March 21, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Book cover Text: Julia Golding Ragged Wolf Image: The freckled face of a girl looking straight at you. Golden images of leaves and a wolf silhouette below.

I’m home. Coronavirus. Twisted ankle.My instinct is to sit with my laptop and work all day, but I know I will be exhausted if I do that. So, what can I do? I’m afraid of running out of books (yes, really) and I ration them, until I remember that I have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Dragonfly, Julia Golding, Ragged Wolf, reading, review

On Rereading

March 25, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

As a child, I thought rereading books was a H*U*G*E waste of time. I devoured books, especially Enid Blytons, and later, Roald Dahls. I read the odd Richmal Crompton, went on to the classics – loved Five Children and It, pushed myself through others, left still others incomplete. But one thing I rarely did was reread. I did […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Chocolat, Dragonfly, Joanne Harris, Julia Golding, rereading, Tanya Landman, The Goldsmith's Daughter, The Moneylender's Daughter, V.A. Richardson

Dragonfly

August 19, 2013 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Some pacy books are formulaic, and this one is one of them.Prince must marry Princess – it’s a political alliance. Prince and Princess hate each other; they have all kinds of adventures; then they love each other; then they get married.This fits in exactly. Yet, Dragonfly warmed me. There are some books that, like Disney movies, touch […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Dragonfly, Julia Golding, reading, review