Just finished Maximum City, a book about Bombay. Its an awesome read, esp for those who know and love the city. Author is Suketu Mehta. I read A Fine Balance on the plane to India. Great book but depressing.

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three cheers for Rohinton Mistry!

Finished ’’Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist’, thinking of abandoning ’’in the Line of Beauty’’, re-read ’’The Wheel of Time’’ series and am flipping through ’’My Invented Country’’ for inspiration.

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Oh hey there temporal! I was reading Parveen Shaakir too. The poem dedicated to the world womens day is a good one.

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Ghubaar e Khaatir

letters written from ahmednagar fort

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...but last week I was reading the beautiful Dorian Gray too. I love that classic!

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I am reading Mechanical and Structural Vibrations by Demeter G. Fertis and Failure of Metals and Structures by James.

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ah yes, nothing like trash reading to end a tiring day.. very meethi neend..

jg, translate!

raw dust, i have yet to start on virginia woolf.. she gets extreme reviews

the nanny diaries was one of the most stressful books i have red in my life... while reading it, i was pulling out my hair, biting my nails and my gums started bleeding... it was a very stress inducing read.. read it

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I am reading Ficciones by Borges.
Saman, why are you reading that book?
Raw_Dust, Orlando seems to be cool.
John, yeah man you should translate it. I was also thinking of doing some translation, but always keep procrastinating.

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i’m reading robin cook’s ’contigen’..nothing like a cheap medical thriller to end a long day!

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I am reading ’’Saha Kathakar’’ an anthology of short stories by six Marathi writers. I have read this book at least 100 times before and it is still as enjoyable as first time when I read it. Someday I will translate a few of those stories in English (and they will suck :( )

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I am reading Financial Statement Analysis, Text Book.
I am not enjoying it as it is going over my head because I haven’t received my afternoon tea yet, which is making me drowsy.

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I am reading Ali Pore ka Aili by Mumtaz Mufti. Its a biography of Mumtaz Muftie, very simple and state forward. He described himself a feared person. Who can’t do any work with concentration The Most admiring thing in this novel is that writer present himself being a ineffective man rather than a hero. He pointed out his all negative activities. Even His adore with a woman who is mother of 6 children. In last part he also describes that how Pakistan came into being. How did he save his family from Hindus and Sikhs? in the end of Novel he describes his emotions during incoming in Pakistan. Here he creates an anxiety for readers that how was his life after creation of Pakistan. That reader can know after reading 2nd part of this Novel.(though its not latest publication but more interesting)

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am reading orlando by virginia woolf.. kinda half way thru it.. the book is unique.. supposed to be a biography of a fictional character.. the biographer/narrator is a character writing about a character and possesses an omniscience like a 19th century narrator.. interesting in that this-book-is-about-itself sort of way...

karen armstrong sux ass by the way.. a total waste of time... ex-nun trying to shove people soul-food
thru her rosy retellings of middle eastern myths...blekh!

cheers

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