Category: books
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* Today at a non-work session, I was ‘the person’ who talked about work with another colleague. I know.I went on to person B like this – You know X and Y work, but X and Z is what we should be looking at. For that we need to get M and N to work,…
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The first thing that strikes you while reading Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’ is Jack’s innocence, wisdom, and love for his Ma. But would not that be obvious? What else a 5 year old should be full of? from google images And that is why I liked ‘Room’. Because the unusual situation the child and the parent…
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I absolutely love it when people share their growing up stories. Not so much as a medium for an insight into the person who they are now, but just how we all are (can be) bonded by similar stories. It is fun and reflective!I just finished reading Tina Fey’s autobiography Bossypants, which btw Ketaki gifted…
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2011 was more or less the year of books for me!And since I needed a challenge to keep going, I thought ‘lets try to read 50 books this year’. Well, I finished 35 (honestly, I did not read last 30 pages of ‘The Difficulty of being good’. Too much that book was!)Here’s a break down…
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On a rather dull work day, I read a Samit Basu tweet about a books giveaway and for fun indulged in creating a wishlist of books at uread.comOk, so on another note, as a bus commuter, having books ready for the coming month and planning accordingly becomes a huge part of the obsessive game plan.…
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Hari Seldon a psychohistorian and mathematics professor predicted the future by studying the behavioral patterns of living beings. He analysed the data in short and his analysis proved beneficial for the foundation’s birth and activities in helping the living race sustain.Skynet on the other hand a self-aware AI system built to aid humans, overpowered them and…
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Pre Script : May become a very long post.‘Love stories. They make sense in bits and pieces, sometimes the whole never does. Love is like that.’ – Someone on my twitter time line who has a way with words and life.Ok. First things first. I don’t even know why I picked and then decided to…
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a 26 year old’s advanced birthday gift to a 30 year old Of course, Aai and KT think, we should give more age appropriate gifts. But then bro insisted and crossword was giving a 20% discount. Who would let go of a bargain on a gift ? 😛Since then weekends, train travels have been scrabble-ed! And…
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So last week I had two options for books – In the plex (A book about google) and Open (an autobiography).But I wanted to read some fiction, Secret of the Nagas, which had not yet released. Lately I have been having an overdose of non fiction, so thought would wait for it. But then that…
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Pre script – this is about the last harry potter movie. If you have still not seen it or not much big a fan, then kindly avoid reading further 🙂‘It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller.’ Quote from here – Alan Rickman’s words.I love JKR’s series. I…