As I go through my list of books based on recommendations from friends all over, I have decided to write myself a short review of books I finish. Whether it is because of age, or because I am reading too fast, I am not able to recall whether I did or did not like a book when someone asks for my opinion. And thankfully, my own opinion is never exactly like any one else's, so this .....
Friday, January 21, 2022
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Books to be read
Books
Tagore:
Novels - Gora, Jogajog (translated by Supriya Choudhury OUP)
Short stories - Dui Bon And Malancha (translated by Sukhendu Roy)
Short stories - Dui Bon And Malancha (translated by Sukhendu Roy)
Sue Stuart-Smith - Well Gardened mind
Malina by Ingmar Bachmann
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Michael Morpurgo - author
Flamingo boy
waiting for anya
in the mouth of the wolf
warhorse
waiting for anya
in the mouth of the wolf
warhorse
Talks and dialogues - J Krishnamurthy
Normal people
Early Indians
Latitudes of longing
Case of the exploding mangoes
Em and the big hoom
Roopa Prabhu
Lonely Monarch - Sunil Gangopadhyay
Mother wit - Urmila Pawar
Rouayda
Alaa al Aswany - Yacoubian Building
Marguerite - yourcenar
Asha reco -
Amulya Malladi : mango season
A separation - Katie kitamura xx
Britt Bennett - The mothers xx
In the country- Mia alvar xx
Atlas of unknowns- Tania james.xx
Map of home- Randa jarrar. xx
Nawal al Saadawi.
Rafael campo. Poet.
Taiye Selasi- Ghana must go.
A house of my own- Sandra cisneros. xx
Afzal friese- 9968255979.
Tender- Belinda Mckeon.
Ross Gay- catalogue of unabashed gratitude.
The heart is a muscle the size of a fist- Sunil Yapa
The heavens we chase - lavanya shanbhogue arvind
The wedding photographer- Sakshama Puri Dhariwal
The circuses that sweep through the landscape- Tejaswini
Neon noon- Tanuj Solanki
Family planning- Karan Mahajan
The association of small bombs- Karan Mahajan
the two asian Americas by Erika lee.
The other side of silence- Urvashi Butalia
Fathers and Sons- Ivan Turgenev
The conversations- Michael Ondaatje ( with Walter Murch)
Angry housewives eating Bon bons -Lorna Landvik
Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
That time I loved you- Stories by Carrianne Leung
The other Americans by Laila Lalami.
Walking on the ceiling by Aysegul Savas
Together Tea by Marjan Kamali
till here- Lara Vapnyar xx
The Czar of love and Techno- Anthony Marra xx
The Fortunes
Grief is the thing with feathers - max post xx
Here comes the sun.by Nicole Dennis- Benn.
The liberation of Sita- Volga.
Mohsin Hamid - exit west x
Meg Wolitzer - interestings, the Wife
Anne Tyler - clock dance xx
How to love a Jamaican
How to write an autobiographical novel - Alexander Chi
Index card - Harold Pollackp
Beautiful boy - David cheff
Together tea - Marjaan kamaali
How not to die - Michael Gregor
Learning to love - Miranda July
A ghost in the throat - Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Light years - James Salter
Yuganta - iravati Karve
Sam Harris - podcast
Wind sand and stars - Antoine de Saint exupéry
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
Katy no pocket
Isak Denisen's out of Africa
What you heard is true - pico Iyer recommended
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/books/carlo-rovelli-physicist-book.html
Durgabai Deshmukh who fought for a woman’s right to education
Tarabai Shinde, the author of Stree Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women And Men), the first feminist text
A ghost in the throat - Doireann Ni Ghriofa
Light years - James Salter
Yuganta - iravati Karve
Sam Harris - podcast
Wind sand and stars - Antoine de Saint exupéry
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
Katy no pocket
Isak Denisen's out of Africa
What you heard is true - pico Iyer recommended
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/books/carlo-rovelli-physicist-book.html
Durgabai Deshmukh who fought for a woman’s right to education
Tarabai Shinde, the author of Stree Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women And Men), the first feminist text
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
I read Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Read recently. I had been hearing about it since it was written in 2013, but somehow thought this would be a very American-women related narrative. I am now wishing I had read it earlier. The traps women fall into, consciously because of external factors, and unconsciously because of the myths that we tell ourselves are facts are clearly expressed by Sherly Sandberg. Really makes for some interesting discussions. Looking forward to some discussion here in this post.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Why this blog..
This blog is being started so that we can share information about books we are reading that we think will appeal to the others in this group. We can expand the list of users of this blog depending on how active this becomes. I know all of us are reading very similar books, or at least want to be reading similar books so let's make this work.
I think the best way would be to just create a fresh post for each book, with the title of the book as the heading - this would make it easy to search for it. Also, let's add our comments in the same post.
Our inspiration:
Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge – to read a book from every country in the world in one year. While we do not aim to copy her and set a challenge for ourselves, she has inspired our group of voracious readers to share information about books we have loved with each other.
This is the link to Ann Morgan's list:
I think the best way would be to just create a fresh post for each book, with the title of the book as the heading - this would make it easy to search for it. Also, let's add our comments in the same post.
Our inspiration:
Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge – to read a book from every country in the world in one year. While we do not aim to copy her and set a challenge for ourselves, she has inspired our group of voracious readers to share information about books we have loved with each other.
This is the link to Ann Morgan's list:
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