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Month: December 2017

December 25, 2017December 28, 2017 Bhupendra Singh

OVERCOMING READER’S BLOCK

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Favorite Reads of 2019 It was a turbulent, yet sublime year, reading-wise. Like the past few years, I had made some reading resolutions, the most important of which was: "Watch less, Read more." Followed the dictum like a new convert follows his freshly adopted religion. My favourite reads of the year include a couple of rereads and a few works I had left half-read due to a variety of reasons. All of the books mentioned here fired me to a state of febrile intensity. In no particular order, I list the works that filled me with joy, hope, anxiety, and a thousand other feelings; works that left me marveling at the creative heights some humans reach, books that left me numbed at the depraved depths some humans sink... 1. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 2. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd, 3. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 4. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig, 5. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, 6. Making Movies by Sidney Lumet, 7. Rag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla, 8. The Veiled Suite by Agha Shahid Ali, 9. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, 10. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, 11. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, 12. Ek Duniya: Samanantra edited by Rajender Yadav, 13. What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali, 14. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, 15. Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba (& illustrated by Takeshi Obata) #books #reading #bibliophile #bookstagram
The best literary magazine in Hindi for kids (& those adults who refuse to outgrow the magic of childhood). #reading #hindi
A Desert Summer of Fantasy and Sci-fi #bookstagram #reading #bibliophile
The stories of Perumal Murugan reminds me of the days I spent in villages and towns across India during my childhood and adolescence. There is an air of sneaking dread in his stories. Innocuous seeming stories take a menacing turn. Though the stories are based in rural Tamil Nadu, yet they are of universal appeal. https://m.facebook.com/bhupendrawrites/ #bibliophile #book #reading #RegionalLiterature #bookstagram
Margaret used to say that there were two sorts of women: those with clear edges to them, and those who implied mystery. (The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, 2011 Man Booker Prize winner) #bibliophile #book #SundayReading #reading
Sorting books for the long, hot summer. #bibliophile #reading #bookstagram #books

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