On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:15 AM, ashok _ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:28 PM, 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? >> >> > > Also this one by Amin Malouf , came across it by chance - its a kind of science fiction / fantasy - but the context is very appropriate with the times : http://www.amazon.com/First-Century-After-Beatrice > Sometime back i read a book called the -- The Red Market: On the Trail of > the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child > Traffickers > > http://www.amazon.com/Red-Market-Brokers-Thieves-Traffickers/dp/0061936464 > > a large part of the book is set in india. its flawed in some ways, but an > interesting read. > > > >> 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 >> > >
