Only better way of starting your year reading Hemingway in Simla is reading Hemingway in Paris. The year began with perhaps the most underrated work by Hemingway, Across The River And Into The Trees. Its a story of lost youth, full of nostalgia that forces you to look back at your own life and contemplate. [...]
Across the River and into the Trees is probably the most underrated novel by Hemingway. Richard Cantrell, the American Colonel has spent most of his years in war and now that the war is over, there is this feeling of lost youth and it is that feeling that brings him back to Venice, a city [...]
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, another step in my love affair with hills, is a collection of short stories from Ruskin Bond, the author best known for his children stories. Most of the stories in this collection are therefore somehow related to the childhood of the author. Semi-autobiographical in nature. But these stories will [...]