I finished my first Haruki Murakami!!! The wind up bird chronicle! And what fun it was. Not in a literal sense. But in a quirky way! Anywho without further ado, I will jot down my musings during this phase. * It truly felt like a diary. Of Mr. Wind up Bird. * Parts of it…
Post palace of illusions. Mahabharata is something that finds its way to you. Of course if you are born an Indian, its easier. One can say Mahabharata stories were typical bed time stories as kids. One grew up on the fodder of virtuous Pandavs, evil kauravs, cunning shakuni, danveer karna, mayavi Krishna. It was always…
Pre-script : I pick my books from random sources. It could be some unknown twitter feed, or friends of friends of friends reco, or simply this. Its the risk in trying out any genre that appeals to me. Friends normally recommend what they think I might like. But picking your sources from anywhere else, is…
I have read some horrendous, some fair enough and some interesting books in the past few weeks. Penning down my few cents on the same. * Don’t lose your mind lose your weight – Rujuta Diwekar Oh! for beginners I am skinny. All the raised eyebrows apart (why do you need to read the book…
# So, I could not *achieve* that target I set myself 5 days before the year ended. It seems the part of my brain which does math was in hibernation. It is quite humanly impossible to achieve such a target when one has to travel with family for 2 days out of those 5. Note…
Been quite a long time since I set myself a target.Here’s a list of books that I left unfinished/ started but lost interest midway/ just forgot about them after starting, thanks to the ever expanding library of my stanza app on the touch/ just like that.1. second foundation (3rd book of the trilogy)2. surely you…