The morphing of lists, that’s how I can describe the styles of Umberto Eco and Laurent Binet.
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So far I couldn’t bear to read anything…
So far, I couldn’t bear to read anything related to World War 2. Some accounts here and there I may have read anyway but not much considering how immense the event was.
I read Laurent Binet’s THE 7TH FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE some time back. I couldn’t put it down, one cracking story with plenty of academic heroes filling the book. Now it’s time for HHhH.
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Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich – chief of the Nazi secret services, ‘the hangman of Prague’, ‘the blond beast’, ‘the most dangerous man in the Third Reich’. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says ‘Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich’, which in German spells HHhH.HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is a moving and shattering work of fiction.
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I live happily accessing indexes of expensive books…
I live happily accessing indexes of expensive books, courtesy Kindle samples.
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Without the distraction of faces and voices books…
Without the distraction of faces and voices, books let you enter situations and worlds.
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Who titles a book THE INVENTION OF MURDER…
Who titles a book THE INVENTION OF MURDER?
Judith Flanders does. And she has written about more subjects that delight me.
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Another morning I spent searching for interesting titles…
Another morning I spent searching for interesting titles and books. Today, for some reason I searched for ‘fingers’. And I come across this book interestingly titled NICOTINE FINGERS.
Here’s what the description of this book reads:
Edwin has reached the peak of indifference. At age thirty-six, he’s starting to take a serious look at his current status as a bartender, a boyfriend of four years, and a smoker. He dropped out of college at age twenty to follow his music…al dreams, only to have them shattered by a hazy night of drug use. Eleven years later, he finds himself working opposite hours with his girlfriend Zoey, who is forcefully trying to get him to quit smoking. Asked to play a one-off show with his former band Addison Street, Edwin is forced to address old emotions that he had long since tucked away. Despite his initial reluctance, this looming performance gives him a new perspective on his stagnant life. A youthful, more involved Edwin emerges from weeks full of band rehearsals and late nights of drinking and smoking. However, someone from his rock ‘n’ roll past returns, and he must decide whether or not his relationship with Zoey is worth opposite hours and constant nagging about his habit. After eighteen years, will Edwin end his longest relationship, with cigarettes, to save the one he has with Zoey?
What do you say?
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I have a pile of books lying at…
I have a pile of books lying at my bedside. I don’t feel like reading any. Reluctantly, gingerly, I touch them and then let them be. No more. I have to go back to Steven Johnson. Here’s why.
“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.”
- Steven Johnson
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Jack London William Faulkner You need to be…
Jack London, William Faulkner… You need to be tough inside to read them.
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Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon and Killing Commendatore it…
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon and Killing Commendatore, it isn’t surprising that I am reading in the same space-time.
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Cultivation of disdain for reading that’s one of…
Cultivation of disdain for reading, that’s one of the successes of Indian education system.
The association of what they call ‘textbook’ with classroom, with important questions, with getting marks through the excruciating process of insane amount of temporary memorizing for exams, with funny teachers, makes sure that most of the youngsters look at ‘reading’ with utter disdain.
Reading means ‘padhaaku’, means ‘spectacles’, means ‘impractical’, means ‘theoretical’, means ‘philosophical’.
Reading doesn’t mean ‘hard work of attempts at understanding’, ‘diligence’, ‘intelligence’, ‘smartness’, ‘improvement’, ‘beholding’, ‘observation’.
So one of the most basic, accessible, important, entertaining and rewarding skills for growth in one’s life is found to be one of the most repulsive activities among youngsters.
This, my friends, is the success of India’s education system.
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Time is now bookshops closed and it would…
Time is now, bookshops closed, and it would be such a shame to read a Dostoevsky book on screen.
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I postponed reading Killing Commendatore for quite long…
I postponed reading Killing Commendatore for quite long. Why? Anticipating boredom from Murakamiesque conversations. So wrong!
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Curiosity involves risk You can’t satisfy your curiosity…
Curiosity involves risk. You can’t satisfy your curiosity without accepting some risk.
- Menshiki, character in Killing Commendatore
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Thickness of bunched up leaves of a book…
Thickness of bunched up leaves of a book are a good measure of progress through and into a story. Kindle just offers a number, sometimes it’s called ‘loc’. Wtf!
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The author of another terrific book Obliquity There are still some days before the lock down is lifted in entirety. Until then John Kay’s acute sense and entertaining writing should do a great job.
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A few days I prepared a list of…
A few days back, I prepared a list of all the books and samples I have on my Kindle. It took a little time. It should be available for download by default.
Goodreads is no good! Their twitter handle is richer than the website.
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No words What title what romance what playfulness…
No words. What title, what romance, what playfulness! At this point I can’t order another Saramago paperback. I’ll delight in having read this until I can order another one.
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It is after plenty of moments spent reading…
It is after plenty of moments spent reading that it occurred to me that I should study ‘sitting’.
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There are times when the mind doesn’t apply…
There are times when the mind doesn’t apply itself for improvement or the conscious self can’t figure whether or not the mind is actually applying itself towards improvement.
Alright, I have no option now. I shall have to read Killing Commendatore on my Kindle. The time feels right.
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