Mailbox Monday/It's Monday - What are you Reading?

Mailbox Monday hosted by Metroreader for February.

It's Monday What are you Reading? hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

This week my mailbox is overflowing courtesy of a friend who was clearing out her own books! This is only part of the loot.

A tightly written thriller - described as "action is depicted with satisfying breathlessness"

Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and highly recommended by the person who gave me the books!

Dealing with a particular race in Indian society - the Parsis. This is one book I am just waiting to read.

Sorry I cant get rid of this double photograph!  Set in Sri Lanka, a Sri Lankan author.

Witty, eloquent, outrageous and entertaining. My second foray into Khuswant Singh's world.

A teenager has been raped and her father needs to protect her. Sounds a tense usually nerve wracking Jodi Picoult read.

The Burghers are the descendants of Portuguese, Dutch and British colonists now intermarried with the Singhalese and Tamils of Sri Lanka. They were always a community held in high esteem specially after the British left the country because of their knowledge of British ways and more importantly the English language. Decimated by emmigration today their community numbering a few thousands has nevertheless been a very important part of Sri Lankan history and culture. This is going to be an interesting read for me.

I have had a very good reading week with reviews piling up daily. My stay in Rozella is equivalent to what other bloggers say when they describe a very cold winter evening with indoor fires blazing and curling up with a book.

Rozella is cool, quiet - no sounds at all. It is also very green and it is an idyllic place to read. I finished several Cynthia Harrod Eagles books which somehow suited the general atmosphere. Right now reading

Set in 1851 it encompasses the mid Victorian age, the Crimean War and the Great Exhibition in London. The other books by the same author which I finished are

Beginning in 1820, the setting is George IV, the factory age, the fascination with the Liverpool and Manchester railway.

Set in 1788 the French revolution and the Industrial revolution together!

Set in 1670 the period of Charles II and James II

It is 1659 and Cromwell's Protectorate is drawing to a close. Civil war has left Morland Place in a bad way and it is upto the present Master to see to its reconstruction.

As you can see a good week ahead for me. I am again off the internet starting Thursday to Sunday so all posts are only Mondays to Wednesdays. Reading going full speed ahead though.