The Lucknow Book Club

31/08/2024

“Everything in life that’s any fun,
is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”

26/05/2024

जो सिलसिला 2005 में Orkut पर शुरू हुआ,
आज भी बदस्तूर जारी है।

25/02/2024

Yoshino wrote the book as a part of the “Nihon Shoukokumin Bunko” (Library of books for the Younger Generation) that aimed at disseminating progressive knowledge and ideas to Japanese young adults. The work is a precious one – a classic example of how thoughtful adults can help young children to have a healthy mind and human heart.

Published in 1937, this masterpiece itself is an act of resistance against all regressive beliefs and authoritarianism, as Navasky pens in his Translator’s note, the book is “…particularly valuable to us now, when violence against citizens is on the rise, and independent thinkers are being attacked by their governments”.
https://borderlessjournal.com/2024/02/21/how-do-you-live/?fbclid=IwAR2-JeoOwUPQH3v1S41HYuYUZ36Y9iOS4NrndBKTe59n64oP77Kk5BS6ahE

By Aditi Yadav Hayao Miyazaki and the poster of The Boy and the Heron in Japanese In January 2024, “The Boy and the Heron” became the first Japanese movie to win the Golden Globe Award for the Best…

29/07/2023

“मेरे कमरे को सजाने की तमन्ना है तुम्हें,
मेरे कमरे में किताबों के सिवा कुछ भी नहीं”
~जौन एलिया

28/07/2018

A lively meet.

16/07/2018

On the 67th Anniversary of the release of "Catcher in the Rye"... Here is a look at what the Book Critics wrote for it that day... It just shows !!!

“I was surrounded by phonies…They were coming in the goddam window.” Sixty-seven years ago today, The Catcher in the Rye first hit bookshelves across the US, and people still have some pretty…

21/04/2018

April: Detective Fiction.

28/03/2018

http://lucknowbookclub.com/book-review-the-girl-who-saw-it-all/

As a reader of mainly poetry and YA fiction, I picked up Rooprashi's copy of the Girl Who Saw it All with skepticism. I mean, I'd read her blogs, and while short articles on self affirmation and productivity are all right, fiction is a wholly different ballgame. But as with most good things, TGWSAIA...