A Bookworm's Diet

October 23rd 2006

Long time since I posted an update here. Over the last 2-3 months I have read the following :-

• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams


• The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (A potent juxtaposition of Indian mythology and history)


• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


• 1984 by George Orwell (A scary dystopian account)


• My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk (See my older post)


• One flew over the cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey (Now I badly want to see Jack Nicholson in the movie)


• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Roller coaster ride through past, present and future!)


• Maximum City by Suketu Mehta (Bombay described beautifully)

I went to Landmark last Friday to redeem some coupons I had won for coming 2^nd in an intra-company quiz. I bought Snow & Istanbul : Memories and the City, both by Orhan Pamuk. With Pamuk winning this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, a whole shelf at Landmark has been filled with copies of his books. Earlier one had to search around for his books. I have begun reading Istanbul (heavenly stuff).

Tags : A Bookworm's Diet, Quizzing

Doodle - 2

October 8th 2006

As promised before, here's my second attempt (this time it is a lame commentary on a lame idea) :-

This started with Lal Badshah's post here. I was about to post a comment about the Take 5 picture there when it struck me that I could probably express it better with a picture.
At least, I tried ;-).

Tags : Cartoons, Humour