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Varsha Seshan

The Tigers in the Tower

June 5, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve written about Julia Golding’s books – the Cat Royal series, the Peril trilogy, the Dragonfly trilogy, the Darcie Lock series … And now, The Tigers in the Tower. I would not say it is my favourite work by Julia Golding – not even close – but […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: historical fiction, Julia Golding, Middle Grade Book, reading, review, The Tigers in the Tower

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

Catching Up: MG and YA Books

September 19, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

So many wonderful, wonderful books and so little time! Here are a few middle-grade and young adult books I read in the last couple of months. Gorilla Dawn I know a little about gorillas being endangered because I began to read up bits and pieces about it when I saw articles linking the fate of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Anushka Ravishankar, Apple and Rain, Bikram Ghosh, Gill Lewis, Gorilla Dawn, Julia Golding, Katarina Genar, Martin Widmark, Pam Munoz Ryan, reading, review, Sally Nicholls, Sarah Crossan, Shadow Girl, The Sherlock Holmes Connection, Wolf Cry

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

The Diamond of Drury Lane

March 12, 2019 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I love Julia Golding. There were a couple that I didn’t end up writing about – The Glass Swallow and Ringmaster (Darcie Lock Book 1), but there were others that I devoured and simply had to gush about. Here are four that come to mind: Empty Quarter (Girl on the Run Book 2) Dragonfly Cat’s Cradle The Middle Passage And now, […]

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Empty Quarter (Girl on the Run Book 2)

June 29, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I sat at Coimbatore train station, book in hand. “What happened?” asked my sister, looking at my face. I grinned. “I’m inside this book.” I added, quickly, “Will you keep a lookout for the train? I may not notice when it pulls in.” That’s how Empty Quarter was. As with Cat’s Cradle, I jumped straight […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Darcie Lock, Empty Quarter, Julia Golding, reading, review

Cat’s Cradle

May 24, 2015 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Sometimes, especially when you read a lot of different kinds of books that you’ve picked up based solely on the cover, one book jumps out and takes you by surprise. It makes you read on and on, and it makes you chuckle even when you are in a public place and ought to be behaving […]

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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