Books read 09
Jan/Feb Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
March The Trial by Franz Kafka ,Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
April What was Lost by Catherin O’Flynn
May The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
July Norweigian Wood by Haruki Murakami , The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
August Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2010 Reads Jan-March
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck – cry fest which was nurtured by pregnancy hormones.
One Night at a Call Centre by Chetan Bhagat – Stay away unless you have too much time on your hands. I picked it up after watching the inspring 3 Idiots which was based on another book by the same author. I didn’t expect too much noting its ‘popular’tag but this was absolutely badly written drivel. To be fair, I read it till the end but it never got any better.
The Return by KS Maniam- Re-read. It gets better actually after the 5th chapter or so. I do think its an important piece in terms of Malaysian reading with all the necessary questions of identity and corresponding angst, driving a stake in Malayan ground and all that.
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. Hey to be fair,I wanted to read something light during labour and maternity. It was between this and Paul Astler’s Brooklyn Files. Give me a break okay, I was in no mood for CK Prahalad and saving the world.
2 comments:
I so wish I could do this, list the books I've read, but don't think I'll ever get down to it.
Really admire you for keeping up with your blog despite two kids and a job!
Hi Damayanti, hardly blog these days but as mentioned, am intending to be more assiduous.
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