In March this year, I published Harry Potter may have Avada Kedavra-ed my Love for Reading!, a long post explaining how, over the years, the Harry Potter series may have killed my once-obsessive reading habit. Just over four months later, I am happy to report that I am back to almost-obsessive reading again! :)
I spent the summer volunteering at a village school as a teacher and was hosted by the family running the school. The Haji cottage had an impressive collection of books covering a wide range of topics. The village – Breswana – being so halcyon and serene, I was drawn to spending most of the time outdoors and/or reading, as opposed to watching television or sleeping, during my free hours.
Also, I had always tended to prefer fiction to non-fiction books. Now, I’m almost exclusively interested in non-fiction books. These are some of the books I’ve read in the last few months:
1. Until My Freedom has Come (Sanjay Kak)
2. The President is Coming – Anuvab Pal
3. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
4. The Little Book of Terror – Daisy Rockwell
5. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – Lynne Truss
6. My Kashmir: The Dying of the Light – Wajahat Habibullah
7. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued his Empire – Jack Weatherford
8. Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim – Ziauddin Sardar
9. Troubled Periphery: Crisis of India’s North East – Subir Bhaumik
10. The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
11. To Sir, With Love – E. R. Braithwaite
12. The Daughters of Cain – Colin Dexter
13. Sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way – Charles Bukowski
14. A Tangled Web: Jammu & Kashmir (Ira Pandey)
And, I was gifted Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night. I also bought the following books a couple of days ago:
Return of the Timewaster Letters – Robin Cooper
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters – William Dalrymple
I’ll write more about some of these books soon :)
*Goes back to reading* ;)
~ I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Impressive list! Haven’t read any.
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Since you like travelling and I presume history, I think you’ll enjoy reading #3 and #7. Especially #7. Highly recommended :)
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Shall check them out Felix, thanks
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