New arrivals

Of late, I have been on a book coupon redemption spree :-). I bought One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez using the Premier bookshop coupon I got for being a finalist in The Second Ruckus Tangdi Quiz conducted by the KQA in April. Other than that, I used up a set of Landmark coupons (gifted to me by my thoughtful colleagues) to buy the following :-

• Samskara - A Rite for a Dead Man by U R Anantha Murthy (translated from Kannada by A K Ramanujan)
• Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
• In Xanadu : A Quest by William Dalrymple
• Butter Chicken in Ludhiana by Pankaj Mishra
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (900 odd pages of hardbound reading)
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• 2001 : A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke

I had read In Xanadu when I was in college (delightful book, of course). Anyway, one book down won't make much of a difference to my reading backlog ;-).

Tags : A Bookworm's Diet, Quizzing

Posted by Rajat @ 11:53 PM