It would have to be The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. Is there a book about any period in time that kept you engaged? Which book was that and why? History is fascinating and of course, stranger than actual fiction. That was the beginning of my love for the subject, but I think it was cultivated and strengthened through self-education and intensive fieldwork only in the last five years or so. She made it enjoyable and intimate – the two things that teachers of history generally lack, especially at the school level. Everything was a story and she narrated incidents, dates and facts with ease. Parthasarthy, who refused to even look into the book she was teaching from. When I was 13 years old, we had this history teacher, Mrs. How did you develop a liking for history? But I do remember reading everything and a lot of it! I don’t think I thought so critically about reading as others might have, since books were always just there - within reach, on a table, by the bedside, in a shelf. When I was young, I read everything from Agatha Christie to Sweet Valley High to Famous Five. It was and continues to be, this incredible place, where there is no vacant space on any of the walls because it’s covered with books entirely. I grew up in a bookshop called Bahrisons that my grandfather began in 1953 in Khan Market, Delhi, so books just were a part of my everyday landscape. Tell us about your earliest memories of reading.
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