September 2025 – Literary Potpourri
1 post published by mallikabooks during September 2025| Literary Potpourri
1 post published by mallikabooks during September 2025| Literary Potpourri
It’s always a pleasure to visit the fictional Sussex village of Abbeymead to go on another sleuthing adventure with our amateur (do we still call them amateur, on this, their twelfth case?) d…| Literary Potpourri
3 posts published by mallikabooks during August 2025| Literary Potpourri
Today I’m back with part III of Emma @WordsandPeace and my discussion of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990). This magical-realism/fantasy novel is rich with allusions, references, satire and wordplay making every ‘morsel’ very enjoyable. Here’s our discussion of Chapters 7-9. (Find previous parts here: Chapters 1-3 and Chapters 4-6) Chapter 7:…| Literary Potpourri
I’m back today with another buddy-read post with Emma @WordsandPeace. This month, we’ve taken a break from our Tove Jansson reads to explore a different title, author Salman Rushdie’s children’s novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990). As always, we will be posting our discussion in four parts, one and three here on this…| Literary Potpourri
Wednesday, the 6th of August 2025, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies, and celebrates the books waiting to be read on yo…| Literary Potpourri
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10 posts published by mallikabooks during May 2025| Literary Potpourri
My thanks to author Mary Poffenroth for a review copy of this book and additional materials via BookTasters. Fear is a natural emotion that all of us experience in a variety of situations and for a variety of reasons, one that can serve as a warning or assist us in other ways, yet it is…| Literary Potpourri
The sweet (or sometime even harsh) notes of birdsong, the fragrance and colours of flowers around which bees buzz collecting nectar, delicate butterflies fluttering about, insects with iridescent c…| Literary Potpourri
Wednesday, the 25th of June2025, and time for Shelf Control once again! Shelf Control is a weekly feature created by Lisa at Bookshelf Fantasies and celebrates the books waiting to be read on your TBR piles/mountains. Since early January 2023, Shelf Control has moved base here to Literary Potpourri. To participate, all you do is…| Literary Potpourri
I received a review copy of this book from Fairlight Books via NetGalley for which my thanks. A wonderful, gentle read about art, love, and life, going into art and its creation on the one side mirrored by the entirely different but equally meaningful relationship between viewer/spectator and piece of art which adds its own…| Literary Potpourri
And just like that it’s time to wrap up #ReadingtheMeow2025 as a week for of cat-filled and enjoyable reading comes to a close. Many thanks to everyone who joined in, with many contributing multiple reviews to bring a real range to this year’s reviews. We had a wonderful range of genres from memoirs to cozy…| Literary Potpourri
Having read The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816) last year, I was prepared for plenty of strangeness when I picked up The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1821) but ended up very surprised…| Literary Potpourri
My thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for a review copy of this one. A book with ghosts in the plot may not be my usual fare but what interested me in this one was its setting—Malaysia. I don’t …| Literary Potpourri
10 posts published by mallikabooks during June 2025| Literary Potpourri
It’s the 8th of June 2025 which means tomorrow we kick off #ReadingtheMeow2025, a week celebrating cats and books. In case you missed the announcement post, from 9-15 June 2025, anyone who…| Literary Potpourri
I was kindly sent a review copy of this book by the author for which my thanks. A children’s story with a Christmas setting, with its young heroine having to battle a sinister creature to protect t…| Literary Potpourri
Today’s post is the first part of Emma @WordsandPeace and my buddy read of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, covering the first six chapters. Opening thoughts MALLIKA: First published in 1972, The S…| Literary Potpourri
