2 books that I particularly enjoyed in the last year ... * Peking Diary: (1948 – 1949) A Year of Revolution by Derk Bodde
Diary of a US sinology professor in Beijing when the Communists routed the Nationalists and the PRC was formed. More: http://daariga.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/peking-diary-1948-1949-a-year-of-revolution/ * Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott A 100-year old book that is still funny today and is a neat introduction to think in many dimensions (literally). More: http://daariga.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/flatland-a-romance-of-many-dimensions/ ~ash On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:00, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the third year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? > What are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/New > Year's holidays? > > Past silk list recommendations have included such gems as: > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > * Samanth Subramaniam's Following Fish > * Sarnath Bannerjee's Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, and > * Devdutt Pattanaik's Myth=Mithya. > > Books that are easy to get a hold of in India (and more difficult > elsewhere) preferred (but not required). Fiction and non-fiction > recommendations are equally welcome. > > Thaths
