While on Murakami, IQ84 was decent in parts, though I found it dragged on and on. But then, I've never been a huge Murakami fan.
Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: rashmi v <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 08:53:38 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2012 Some Books that I enjoyed reading this year - ' The Wisdom of Whores" Elizabeth Pisani - Sputnik Sweetheart : Murakami - First they killed my Father : Loung ung Also thanks to my kids the Captain Underpants, & Super Diaper Baby series :) Rashmi On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Divya <[email protected]> wrote: > In no particular order, here are my recs (full disclosure, I acquired most > of these in ebook form, while in the UK, unless otherwise mentioned): > - Conversations with Mani Ratnam, Baradwaj Rangan - hardcopy in Chennai > - The Sixth Gun volumes 1-6, ongoing comic book - ecomics at Comixology app > - The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver > - The Black Count, Tom Reiss > - Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin > - Mother Pious Lady, Santosh Desai - hard copy in Mumbai > - Return of a King, William Dalrymple - hard copy in Mumbai > - The Caliph's Splendour, Benson Bobrick > - The Rythm of Riddles, translation by Arunava Sinha of Byomkesh Bakshi > stories - hard copy borrowed from a friend who picked it up in Kolkata > - India: A Sacred Geography, Diana L. Eck > > Cheers > Divya > > Sent from my iPad > > On 7 Dec 2012, at 00:58, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For the fourth 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. > > * Aman Sethi's A Free Man > > > > 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. > > > > Some of the books that I read and enjoyed this year: > > > > The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer > > Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, Art Spiegelman (an > oldie, but I only got to it this year) > > The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar (The Dungeon series is also highly > recommended) > > > > Thaths > > -- > > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > > Carl: Nuthin'. > > Homer: D'oh! > > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > > Homer: Woo-hoo! > > Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without > Borders > >
