As I mentioned in my last post, the news that Coetzee’s Summertime was released sent me immediately to my favourite local bookstore to get my copy. However, I could get to it only a little later and have just read the last page, a few moments...
Topics: Authors, Books, Literature, Reading, Reviews

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After long, went berserk once again with book shopping. What triggered it was an email from flipkart informing me that Summertime by Coetzee, recently shortlisted for this year’s Booker, was available. A picture is worth thousand words. Not in the..
Topics: Authors, Books, Reading

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I have always wanted to write. However, I have always failed to achieve much beyond self-pleasing tid-bits. Like most of us who want to be ‘authors’ without having the discipline to churn out a single short story of any decent standard, I have always.
Topics: Blogging, frustration, Life, reality, Thoughts, writing

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After almost a year and a half, I have finally picked up another Dostoevsky. People all over have recommended the company of Prince Myshkin and I think it was high time I finally delved into The Idiot, which I have been intending to read for a really...
Topics: Authors, Books, Dostoevsky, Idiot, Karamazov, Literature, Prince Myshkin, Reviews

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Inspired by Bob Stein’s email about the ‘integrated reading experiment‘ with The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, I picked it up way back in early December 2008. Thanks to a lot of other things happening in my life, I have been getting.
Topics: Authors, Books, golden notebook, Lessing, Literature, Philosophy, Reading, Reviews

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