The book lovers of the city spent a thrilling evening with the novels of ‘thriller’ genres. A book reading and discussion session was held at Swami Vivekananda library here on Sunday.
The book lovers not only explored new novels but also new facts. There were facts told, such as Hindi suspense movie Gumnam was based on Agatha Christie’s novel, World’s most famous detective Sherlock Holmes loved playing Violin. These and similar such interesting questions were part of thrilling quiz organized at Vivekananda library this Sunday.
Young quiz Master Arun Singh, class 12 student kept the audience in wits with such interesting questions. The quiz was part of the book reading session organized by Club literati.
“Every month the club selects a popular book or genre and members discuss the books. This time we made a shift from the usual award winning literary books to popular best seller titles. So we decided to talk about ‘thriller’ as a genre first and then to take it forward to specific authors. For instance, we propose to do an Agatha Christie festival in June and July”, said Club literati President Prof Seema Raizada.
Moderated by Vikas Singh, the session was made lively with the members discussing their favorite authors and books on Suspense, Crime and Mystery, Murder plots and even Psycho thrillers Popular detectives like Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Sherlock Holmes were discussed. Amongst Indian authors, the members discussed books by Ashwin Sanghi , Ravi Subramaniam and Surder Mohan Pathak.
The session ended with Sherlock Holmes tune played on key board by young club member Niranjan. He enthralled the gathering with his proficiency in Sherlock tunes.