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AUTHOR'S NOTES
Books in Fishes
Since books were so important to me as a child (and an adult) and are such a major part of the book, and because I’m the sort of person who loves getting book recommendations from other books, I’ve put together this annotated bibliography of books that appear in my book. The titles link to amazon.com if the books are still in print. You may also order them directly from your favorite bookstore or via booksense.com, which will link you with an independent bookshop in your area.
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| CHAPTER ELEVEN: STONE AND SAND AT HOLY WOUNDS |
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I don’t have this textbook either, but Rani Durgavati, like the other historical characters mentioned in the book, was a real person and she really did stab herself in the heart after being shot in the eye. Amar Chitra Katha has a comic about her.
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| CHAPTER SIXTEEN: RAJA NAAG |
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Raja Naag (literally “King Snake”) is a character in Rudyard Kipling’s classic short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.”
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| CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: FOURTEEN AT HOLY WOUNDS |
I really really wish I still had my Moral Science textbook, but I don’t. The story of Maria Corelli, incidentally, is a true one, and the Moral Science version is more-or-less accurate.
The Dice Man, by Luke Rhinehart
I was surprised to find that this was still in print, as I had assumed it was some long-forgotten trash novel. Turns out it’s actually a philosophical novel. Apparently. I haven’t read it.
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| CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE ADOLESCENT GIRL |
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The Jolliest Term on Record, by Angela Brazil
There are quite a few boarding school novels which I know I read but no longer have and of which I remember nothing but the title, and this is one of them.
Cherry Ames, Boarding School Nurse
I was a fan of the Cherry Ames series, which was about a nurse with naturally cherry-red cheeks who was constantly accused of wearing rouge. The other gimmick was that she solved mysteries. Some of the books, like Cherry Ames, Veteran’s Nurse, were a bit more grittily realistic about nursing and illness than one might expect.
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| CHAPTER TWENTY: A HERO AT HOLY WOUNDS |
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Surprise! I still have several of my Shivaji books. Sadly, no popular works on Shivaji are available outside of India, as far as I’m aware.
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