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| Auld Lang Syne |
| 2011-12-31 00:41:55 |
Wishing all who enter this blog, by design or accident, a year of great cheer and reading! Three six five and more of fleeting days of yore have lapsed, o’ believe since first keystrokes of me. Dormant mask I wore through most this year; remorse I now feel slightly. Future be more sprightly . [...]...
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| Akira Kurosawa: Something Like an Autobiography |
| 2010-04-08 22:06:26 |
Among Japanese film makers, no one is perhaps as universally known as Akira Kurosawa.
“Something like an Autobiography” is an account of the legendary director’s early life. It is only a partial account, encompassing his childhood, adolescenct years, the early years of his film career, up to the point of Rashomon. Nonetheless, the book benefits anyone [...]...
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| Kindling my Nook, bungling my book |
| 2009-11-02 23:01:03 |
It’s very unlikely I’ll buy a ebook reader – Amazon’s Kindle or anything else. Even if I ever do, out of curiosity more than anything else, to me they they will always remain a poor surrogate, something of a novelty that I might tinker with or even carry on a flight, but never take seriously. [...]...
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| Funniest Tintin snippet, ever? |
| 2009-10-26 23:25:10 |
My three year old son has realized the quite American way of emphasizing his speech with a trailing “ever” -
I don’t like this food ever…
I don’t want to take a nap ever..
and so on. Along the “ever” line, I decided, while re-reading several of the Tintin comic books this summer, to choose my favorite funny [...]...
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| King’s Ransom by Ed McBain (or, High and Low by Akira Kurosawa) |
| 2009-10-11 12:17:48 |
In the fifties, Ed McBain wrote a rather nondescript book, a crime thriller which had all the cliches and ingredients of a potboiler – wooden, flat characters mouthing banalities, the stereotype business tycoon, the tough cop etc. etc. There was, however, a distinct complexity to the plot, which though the author could barely [...]...
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| The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama |
| 2009-08-19 00:05:32 |
I read Vikram Seth’s Suitable Boy over two years ago. Yet many of the characters, even lesser ones – like Mahesh Kapoor, remain vivid in my memory. I can almost see the man when I close my eyes and try to imagine a scene from the story. One could argue that it’s unfair to compare [...]...
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| Maximum City by Suketu Mehta |
| 2009-08-16 01:03:14 |
I would disagree with those that have classified Maximum City under “Description and Travel”. A typical book of travel is mostly an outsider’s perspective. Here, the outsider’s perspective notwithstanding, is a lot more – nostalgia, and a sincere attempt to contextualize and understand a culture one has left behind or never known in the past [...]...
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| Booker longlist announced |
| 2009-07-28 21:38:49 |
The Booker longlist is out: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1252
Their website says that the long list was chosen from a total of 132 books. Curious, and and unable to find it on the internet, I’ve emailed them a query for the list of all the 132 books – part of the reason is to find out which (if any) [...]...
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| Mélange |
| 2009-06-22 01:40:28 |
Several months back, I began reading Salman Rushdie’s “Enchantress of Florence”. Even brilliance of prose can be tedious, as I realized not too far into the book. Nonetheless, it did trigger in me some interest in history. Out came a dusty paperback from my bookshelf, an old edition of History of India Vol. 2 by [...]...
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| Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2008-12-02 23:18:50 |
An alternative title to Unaccustomed Earth could very well be-”The distraught lives of Bengali Americans”. It is no secret that Lahiri writes about Bengali Americans, their travails and search for identity. It was the prevalent theme in the much vaunted “Interpreter of Maladies.” It was the same theme expanded into a novel in “The Namesake.” [...]...
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