Z is for Zero

Z is for Zero, Zilch, nothing or sunya. Zero is a great number, isn't it? On its own it has no value but add to the end of the number, the number increases in value by ten times. More zeroes more value. How did somebody come up with something to represent nothing? Indians have invented this great number to represent void or vacuum. I like the shape of this number too, never know where it ends or where it begins. Something like T S Eliot's In my beginning is my end. I love this number, do you?

Last post for the A to Z Blogging Challenge.

Y is for Yeats

Y is for W B Yeats. I read this poem in school and I liked it because of its simplicity and beauty.

When you are Old
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

X is for X

Sometimes while reading news or watching a movie or by something else I remember about some book I read. Sometimes it's just the particular instance in the book or I remember the full story but I cannot remember the name of the book. For example, you read about Plagiarism and you remember about the book where somebody killed somebody else because of Plagiarism. You remember this bit, but cannot place the book. You wonder what book it is. X is for the unknown book.

Has this happened to you? Have you wondered where I have read this before?

W is for Wodehouse

I like Wodehouse characters, plots and everything. I like his turn of phrase. Jeeves, Wooster, Lady Constance and Lord Emsworth are few of my favourite Wodehouse characters. Sometimes we meet Wodehousian characters in real life too. I was reading Wodehouse's Summer Lightning sometime back and couldn't help laughing at the introduction."A certain critic—for such men, I regret to say, do exist—made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. ... he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."

Who is your favourite Wodehouse character?

Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday is a fun weekly Meme hosted at Reading Between the Pages.

This weeks theme is Yes, Okay, Sure.

I am posting from A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow

“Okay?” she said in a voice more gentle than he’d heard in fourteen months.
“Okay,” he said. She smiled at him, and his eyes widened. “It walks, it talks, it smiles,” he said his voice marveling. “It might even be human.”

V is for Valli

That's me! V is also for Jules Verne. Jules Verne is considered the Father of Science Fiction along with H G Wells. In Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, Verne takes us on a voyage under the sea in a submarine before the invention of a submarine. In the Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Verne creates a fascinating world beneath the Earth with fascinating creatures.

Do you read science fiction? Have you read anything by Jules Verne?

U is for Undertow

U is for Undertow is the title of the 21st book featuring Santa Teresa female Private Investigator, Kinsey Millhone authored by Sue Grafton. U is for Undertow is also my 21st post for the A to Z Blogging Challenge. This post is not about this single book in this series. It is about the entire Alphabet series by Sue Grafton. While there is a continuity, you can pick up any single book in the series as a standalone. I have read all the books in the series, but not in order. I never felt lost. Latest book in the series is V is for Vengeance. I don't know what title Sue Grafton is going to come for the letters X Y and Z. I don't know what I am going to do for these alphabets in this challenge. Let's see.

Have you read Sue Grafton's Alphabet series? Have you decided the post for X Y and Z alphabets for your A to Z Blogging challenge?

P.S I am jumping up and down in joy! This is 21st post for this challenge, meaning I am almost at the finishing line. Hopefully, so are you!