Books

The list

Here’s a list of all the books I read during 2017! While I somehow managed to get through 52 books for the year, writing about them took a backseat, in view of the other interesting adventures I was lucky to be part of during the year. However, I do hope to stick to the task of writing about each of these books, and…

Adventure 11: The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

Week 11 of the reading challenge introduced me to Paula Hawkins’ novel, which was then a major motion picture as well. I had forgotten for a while now of how racy books can be, and had taken to accepting slow starts. Paula Hawkins’ work…

Adventure 8: The Kaunteyas, Madhavi.S.Mahadevan

To retell the Mahabharata, India’s oldest, biggest and most told epic, in a new light is no mean task. To present the new perspective of this colossal story in under 300 pages of not-so-small font is not easy either. Madhavi.S.Mahadevan (It’s my…

Adventure 4: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

The 4th week of January was pretty busy outside of the world of words. I had just been told of a trip to the France and the UK, and was preparing my travel documents for the same. I was also the winner of the…

Adventure 2: The Circle, Dave Eggers

My second week of reading introduced me to Dave Eggers’ ‘The Circle’, a thriller based on the state of digitalisation and privacy in the current world. Having previously enjoyed the author’s ‘A hologram for the king’ and after hearing quite a lot about ‘What is the…

A word on the timelines

Before I write more about more of my pedagogical adventures, a note about the timelines of these posts. Though I was managing to read a book every week, posting about them was another matter altogether. First of all, some of these books were big enough (or my reading appetite small…

Adventure 1: American Pastoral, Philip Roth

I started the challenge with pulitzer prize winning author Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. 421 pages long, this book narrates a story of America in the times of the transition, through the eyes of Seymour ‘The Swede’ Levov’s family. It attempts to…