2020 started horribly for me, and I am not talking about the pandemic which came later. The horrible start of the year forced me to agonise over and introspect about many things that would have never caught my attention normally. The vortex of pain and agony forced me for a much-needed introspection and IContinue reading “What I read in 2020”
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Little Dog might sound as a strange name but once I read the story behind his name, there was a tender familiarity that seeped through. Little Dog was named so to save him from bad things happening to him; making him undesirable so that death which prefers to take away the precious things ignores him.
What I read in 2019
This was a post I used to write typically in the first or second week of January. But recently things have not been going in the usual way. I also used to provide a couple of line summaries and my take on the books that I read but that too seemed too much of effort.Continue reading “What I read in 2019”
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
As a bibliophile who has been working on climate change for more than a decade, I found it surprising that there are very few books, especially mainstream books that talks about climate change. Well, this question bothered Amitav Ghosh as well and the result is a very erudite and immensely readable book: The Great Derangement:Continue reading “The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh”
What I read in 2018 (fiction)
This list consists of the usual comfort and light reading (read crime fiction and thrillers). Yet, this year I tried to explore a few new authors and read a couple of Hindi books. There were two failed attempts at War and Peace and I managed to finish a couple of chapters of My Struggle byContinue reading “What I read in 2018 (fiction)”
What I read in 2018 (Non-fiction)
This post is almost a couple of months late. It was begging attention in my draft folder for at least six weeks. Finally here is the list of books that I manage to finish last year. Conflicts of Interest by Sunita Narain : One of the most engaging and informative book that I read lastContinue reading “What I read in 2018 (Non-fiction)”
What I read in 2017 – Part 2 (Fiction)
I read a lot of fiction. Mostly crime-fiction, it is my guilty pleasure and companion on all my flights. Choosing what to read has been a very random decision. Sometimes I pick a book because I wanted to explore a new author or explore crime-fiction from a different country, language or theme.. And sometimes justContinue reading “What I read in 2017 – Part 2 (Fiction)”
What I read in 2017- 1 (Non-fiction)
Thanks to my sleeping disorder and the age-old habit of going to bed with a book or kindle, I did manage to finish 30 books this year. There are several books that I left midway or just finished a few chapters and dropped them (or put them on to-be-finished-later list). While crime-fiction remains my guiltyContinue reading “What I read in 2017- 1 (Non-fiction)”
The Oraganized Mind
Despite my several attempts to organize information in different ways, I am still to find a way that works decently for me. My job frequently requires synthesizing a lot of information, and to do that I need to quickly retrieve information, often stored in different digital formats across multiple machines. Retrieving information is primarily aContinue reading “The Oraganized Mind”
Malice – Another gem from Higashino
Keigo Higashino is referred as ‘the Japanese Stieg Larsson’ on the cover of this book. I think this is a very bizarre comparison if I consider the plot and writing style of these two authors. The comparison can only be justified if we consider a) both write crime fiction, and b) both have been bestsellersContinue reading “Malice – Another gem from Higashino”
