Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Udhay Shankar N]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes 
wrote:


> Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are
> there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?)
>

​There's the State Central Library in the heart of Cubbon Park [1] and the
various City Central Libraries (4 when I last checked) - the latter being
maintained, IIRC, by a cess tacked on to the electricity bills.

There's also the British Council library, which technically fulfils your
requirement, except that it's paid for by the British government rather
than the Indian one.

Udhay

[1]
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/state-central-library-100-years-and-counting/article6914794.ece
​



-- 

((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Deepa Mohan]

Yeuggh. Bookleaze sounds too close to Booksleaze!

What is the process by which  people come up with names for their
entrepreneurial efforts? I had a similar query in the old days of Live
Journal (a blogging site which barely exists now) and the answers were
varied and very...Interesting!

I don't find the lending library scene very attractive in Bangalore.
There was actually a mobile van from the Seshadri Iyer Memorial
(Central) Library  which did the rounds  each week, and it went from
adequate to pathetic, and ulitmately stopped altogether. However, we
still pay Library Cess as part of our income tax!

Deepa.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Charles Haynes
 wrote:
> Oh that's much better than my search. For some reason "lending library"
> only returned Eloor and Bookleaze for me.
>
> Thanks!
> -- Charles
>
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 16:39 Deepa Mohan  wrote:
>
>> Google amma gave me this:
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant=1=2=UTF-8#q=lending%20libraries%20in%20bangalore=ls:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf:1,lf_ui:3,lf_pqs:EAE=1=0=12950140,77638673,5288=lcl=7502844426495328141
>>
>> Deepa.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes
>>  wrote:
>> > Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are
>> > there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?)
>> >
>> > -- Charles
>> >
>> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 15:51 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years
>> >> unless they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently
>> so
>> >> I hope they're still there
>> >>
>> >> Google + a website says yes they are
>> >>
>> >> --srs
>> >>
>> >> > On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes 
>> >> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Suresh,
>> >> >
>> >> > For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
>> >> > Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed
>> the
>> >> > most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and
>> >> accessible
>> >> > public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.
>> >> >
>> >> > -- Charles
>> >> >
>> >> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian <
>> sur...@hserus.net>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Which city are you in?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second
>> hand
>> >> >> book stores like Blossoms.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
>> >> >> > >> >> bling...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Howdy folks,
>> >> >>I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
>> >> >>list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is
>> there
>> >> a
>> >> >>lending library where we can get children's books from - just
>> >> >> wondering for
>> >> >>I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Cheers,
>> >> >>Preetha.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Bharath M Palavalli]

Yes, there are two I used to go to. One is World Culture in Basavanagudi (not 
govt. but they run on a very fair fee), it has a collection that can keep a kid 
busy for a couple of summers. The collection in the reading section of the 
Govt. library in Malleshwaram was good (a good two decades ago), though their 
lending section tends to be pretty bare (haven’t figured it out if it is 
because they don’t have much or it is in demand), though I began reading my 
Asimov’s from there.

> On 30-Dec-2016, at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes  wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are
> there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?)
> 
> -- Charles
> 
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 15:51 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> wrote:
> 
>> Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years
>> unless they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently so
>> I hope they're still there
>> 
>> Google + a website says yes they are
>> 
>> --srs
>> 
>>> On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Suresh,
>>> 
>>> For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
>>> Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed the
>>> most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and
>> accessible
>>> public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.
>>> 
>>> -- Charles
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
 Which city are you in?
 
 Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second hand
 book stores like Blossoms.
 
 And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
 
 On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
  wrote:
 
   Howdy folks,
   I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
   list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there
>> a
   lending library where we can get children's books from - just
 wondering for
   I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
 
   Cheers,
   Preetha.
 
 
 
 
 
>> 
>> 
>> 

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Charles Haynes]

Oh that's much better than my search. For some reason "lending library"
only returned Eloor and Bookleaze for me.

Thanks!
-- Charles

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 16:39 Deepa Mohan  wrote:

> Google amma gave me this:
>
>
> https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant=1=2=UTF-8#q=lending%20libraries%20in%20bangalore=ls:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf:1,lf_ui:3,lf_pqs:EAE=1=0=12950140,77638673,5288=lcl=7502844426495328141
>
> Deepa.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes
>  wrote:
> > Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are
> > there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?)
> >
> > -- Charles
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 15:51 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years
> >> unless they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently
> so
> >> I hope they're still there
> >>
> >> Google + a website says yes they are
> >>
> >> --srs
> >>
> >> > On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes 
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Suresh,
> >> >
> >> > For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
> >> > Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed
> the
> >> > most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and
> >> accessible
> >> > public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.
> >> >
> >> > -- Charles
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian <
> sur...@hserus.net>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Which city are you in?
> >> >>
> >> >> Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second
> hand
> >> >> book stores like Blossoms.
> >> >>
> >> >> And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
> >> >>
> >> >> On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
> >> >>  >> >> bling...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>Howdy folks,
> >> >>I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
> >> >>list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is
> there
> >> a
> >> >>lending library where we can get children's books from - just
> >> >> wondering for
> >> >>I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
> >> >>
> >> >>Cheers,
> >> >>Preetha.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Preetha Chari-Srinivas]

Suresh,

I am currently based in Madras. Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Cheers,
Preetha.

On Dec 29, 2016 11:34 PM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" 
wrote:

Which city are you in?

Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second hand
book stores like Blossoms.

And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.

On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
 wrote:

Howdy folks,
I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there a
lending library where we can get children's books from - just wondering
for
I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.

Cheers,
Preetha.

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Deepa Mohan]

Google amma gave me this:

https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant=1=2=UTF-8#q=lending%20libraries%20in%20bangalore=ls:-1,lf_od:-1,lf_oh:-1,lf:1,lf_ui:3,lf_pqs:EAE=1=0=12950140,77638673,5288=lcl=7502844426495328141

Deepa.


On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Charles Haynes
 wrote:
> Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are
> there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?)
>
> -- Charles
>
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 15:51 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> wrote:
>
>> Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years
>> unless they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently so
>> I hope they're still there
>>
>> Google + a website says yes they are
>>
>> --srs
>>
>> > On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Suresh,
>> >
>> > For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
>> > Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed the
>> > most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and
>> accessible
>> > public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.
>> >
>> > -- Charles
>> >
>> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Which city are you in?
>> >>
>> >> Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second hand
>> >> book stores like Blossoms.
>> >>
>> >> And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
>> >>
>> >> On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
>> >> > >> bling...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>Howdy folks,
>> >>I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
>> >>list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there
>> a
>> >>lending library where we can get children's books from - just
>> >> wondering for
>> >>I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
>> >>
>> >>Cheers,
>> >>Preetha.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Charles Haynes]

Yeah, that's the one we found - we lived across the street from it. Are
there others? Any that are public (i.e. paid for by the government?)

-- Charles

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 15:51 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
wrote:

> Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years
> unless they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently so
> I hope they're still there
>
> Google + a website says yes they are
>
> --srs
>
> > On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes 
> wrote:
> >
> > Suresh,
> >
> > For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
> > Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed the
> > most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and
> accessible
> > public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.
> >
> > -- Charles
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Which city are you in?
> >>
> >> Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second hand
> >> book stores like Blossoms.
> >>
> >> And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
> >>
> >> On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
> >>  >> bling...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Howdy folks,
> >>I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
> >>list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there
> a
> >>lending library where we can get children's books from - just
> >> wondering for
> >>I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Preetha.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Eloor behind Safina plaza on Infantry Road has been around for 30+ years unless 
they closed down, I haven't borrowed anything from them recently so I hope 
they're still there 

Google + a website says yes they are 

--srs

> On 30-Dec-2016, at 9:59 AM, Charles Haynes  wrote:
> 
> Suresh,
> 
> For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
> Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed the
> most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and accessible
> public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.
> 
> -- Charles
> 
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
> wrote:
> 
>> Which city are you in?
>> 
>> Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second hand
>> book stores like Blossoms.
>> 
>> And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
>> 
>> On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
>> > bling...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>Howdy folks,
>>I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
>>list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there a
>>lending library where we can get children's books from - just
>> wondering for
>>I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
>> 
>>Cheers,
>>Preetha.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

Re: [silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Charles Haynes]

Suresh,

For future reference, could you please share the lending libraries of
Bangalore? That was one of the things we (especially Debbie) missed the
most about our time there - we were used to easily findable and accessible
public libraries, and couldn't find such in Bangalore.

-- Charles

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 at 05:04 Suresh Ramasubramanian 
wrote:

> Which city are you in?
>
> Plenty I know of in Chennai.  Bangalore has its fair share + second hand
> book stores like Blossoms.
>
> And there’s always the kindle / ipad and such.
>
> On 29/12/16, 9:59 AM, "silklist on behalf of Preetha Chari-Srinivas"
>  bling...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy folks,
> I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
> list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there a
> lending library where we can get children's books from - just
> wondering for
> I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Preetha.
>
>
>
>
>

[silk] Request - Recommended reading list / songs for a 5-month old baby girl

[Preetha Chari-Srinivas]

Howdy folks,
I would like to seek your suggestions on the recommended reading
list/songs/nursery rhymes etc. for a 5-month old baby girl. Is there a
lending library where we can get children's books from - just wondering for
I haven't seen one in India, so far. Could be mistaken, though.

Cheers,
Preetha.

Re: [silk] Old Maps of Chennai

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

The madras archives http://www.tnarchives.tn.gov.in/aboutus.html

Though if you know S Muthaiah of Madras Musings I am sure he can already give 
you chapter and verse on what you want.


On 28/12/16, 9:36 PM, "silklist on behalf of Vijay Anand" 
 wrote:

Does anyone know where one can find old maps of Chennai? I am looking
for a map of Triplicane, especially the area surrounding the Marina
beach before 1991. If anyone could point me towards the right
direction, it would greatly help.

Thanks in advance.

Vijay

[silk] Old Maps of Chennai

[Vijay Anand]

Does anyone know where one can find old maps of Chennai? I am looking
for a map of Triplicane, especially the area surrounding the Marina
beach before 1991. If anyone could point me towards the right
direction, it would greatly help.

Thanks in advance.

Vijay

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

[Venkatesh Hariharan]

Oh, and when I was down with fever, I picked up Love in the Time of
Cholera. I still remember clearly that, for some reason, I started reading
it from Page 77 and couldn't stop. I read it right through to the last page
and then read page 1 to 76. Amazing writer, that Marquez!

On Dec 29, 2016 10:41 AM, "Udhay Shankar N"  wrote:

> I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently.
> To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?)
>
> 
> I read voluminously, but my most vivid reading experience was during a
> summer vacation at my family's Kottayam (Kerala) rubber plantation,
> surrounded by bucolic country cousins whom I couldn't talk to, and didn't
> want to. The only thing to read in the house was a tattered volume of
> Shakespeare. It had 'Twelfth Night', 'All's Well That Ends Well' and 'The
> Taming Of The Shrew'. With illustrations. I was ten. I read that damned
> book for all it was worth. Over those two miserable months, I wore it down
> to a shadow. It was my only escape from a place I wanted to flee. I milked
> it dry, made Shakespearan mega-movies in my head; can still spout entire
> passages. Nothing that I've read since has been as rich and hallucinatory.
> It wasn't the book so much as what my imagination desperately did with it
> (I might have squeezed as much out of the Kottayam telephone directory).
> That mildewed book supplied my entire vacation.
> 
>
> I got reminded of this watching my daughter write during a few days spent
> mostly offline, when she didn't have TV or the net to distract her.
>
> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?
>
> Udhay
>
> [1]
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/silk-list/conversations/messages/3455
>
> --
>
> ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
>

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

[Venkatesh Hariharan]

Two years ago, I fractured my foot and was laid low for a month. That
helped me read up on financial planning and substantially clean up my
finances. Very helpful, that was :-)

On Dec 29, 2016 10:41 AM, "Udhay Shankar N"  wrote:

> I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently.
> To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?)
>
> 
> I read voluminously, but my most vivid reading experience was during a
> summer vacation at my family's Kottayam (Kerala) rubber plantation,
> surrounded by bucolic country cousins whom I couldn't talk to, and didn't
> want to. The only thing to read in the house was a tattered volume of
> Shakespeare. It had 'Twelfth Night', 'All's Well That Ends Well' and 'The
> Taming Of The Shrew'. With illustrations. I was ten. I read that damned
> book for all it was worth. Over those two miserable months, I wore it down
> to a shadow. It was my only escape from a place I wanted to flee. I milked
> it dry, made Shakespearan mega-movies in my head; can still spout entire
> passages. Nothing that I've read since has been as rich and hallucinatory.
> It wasn't the book so much as what my imagination desperately did with it
> (I might have squeezed as much out of the Kottayam telephone directory).
> That mildewed book supplied my entire vacation.
> 
>
> I got reminded of this watching my daughter write during a few days spent
> mostly offline, when she didn't have TV or the net to distract her.
>
> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?
>
> Udhay
>
> [1]
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/silk-list/conversations/messages/3455
>
> --
>
> ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
>

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

[Venkat]

On 29/12/16 6:53 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote:

Give me some enforced downtime and I'll write an ode to the person
responsible for said downtime. Probably.


Considering your dated phone, you'll get some un-enforced downtime 
shortly. 


--

Cheers,
Venkat

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

[Amit Varma]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?
>

All my time seems to be downtime, duly enforced by my Bengali genes for
laziness, but while I don't have anything personal to relate, the phrase
'enforced downtime' reminded me of one of favourite novellas, 'The Royal
Game' by Stefan Zweig. It's been republished as 'Chess Story', and you
won't find a better example of enforced downtime.
http://www.amazon.in/Chess-Story-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590171691/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8=1483018804=8-3=stefan+zweig+chess


-- 
Amit Varma
http://www.indiauncut.com
http://www.twitter.com/amitvarma

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

[Vinit Bhansali]

On 29 December 2016 at 10:40, Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> I got reminded of this message [1] from an earlier conversation recently.
> To quote Ramu from then (are you still reading silk, Ramu?)
> [...]
>
> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?
>
> Udhay
>
>
Give me some enforced downtime and I'll write an ode to the person
responsible for said downtime. Probably.


- Vinit
ᐧ

Re: [silk] what have you produced during enforced downtime?

[John Sundman]

1. When I was a senior in high school (age 17) I became ill with something or 
other. Some kind of flu, probably. It only lasted about 3 days, but during that 
time I was feverish, almost delirious. But somehow I managed to read a good 
chunk of Lord of the Rings — in 1970, when this book was having a major 
renaissance. Everything I read was hyper-real, and in my fever-dreams I was in 
Middle Earth. As a general rule I don’t recommend fever, but somehow it 
provided the perfect context for me to meet Tolkien. 

2. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in a small village in northern Senegal, 1974 
-76.  I loved it, but I was the only English speaker for 100 miles in any 
direction, and until I developed proficiency in African languages I was pretty 
isolated. (Although I spoke French, and about 20% of the villagers had at least 
some command of that language.)  ANYWAY, I experienced a great amount of forced 
downtime, and when I got my hands on a book I generally read it two or three 
times. There were a few books that I had brought from the States, others from 
the Peace Corps library in Dakar ( 2-days’ travel distant), and some came to me 
in the mail from friends and family. The most memorable of the latter category 
was Peter Benchly’s “JAWS”, which I had no idea was a blockbuster book and 
movie at the time. My Aunt Ree sent to me, God bless her. I loved that book. I 
didn’t then know, of course, that I would move to the island of Martha’s 
Vineyard, where the movie was filmed,  in 1993. That movie is still part of the 
folklore of this place; I know dozens of people who were involved in making it, 
people come from all over the world every year just to visit the places that 
appear in the movie. But to me “Jaws" is the book first, movie second. 

Other titles included

The Voice that is Great Within Us ( An anthology of 20th century American 
poetry)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225558.The_Voice_That_is_Great_Within_Us 


George Orwell, Burmese Days

And Anthony Burgess’s “Malayan Trilogy” The Long Day Wanes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malayan_Trilogy 


jrs






> On Dec 29, 2016, at 12:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
> 
> Any stories the list can share about similar things happening during
> enforced downtime?