Finally I return to update the blog, had been struggling to put thoughts together since Twitter made it very easy to express things to the world. Anyway had started putting the year end list last year and cousin of mine prompted to do the same this year too and compare lists. So here goes...
Listing the books from Jan to Dec in the order of when i finished reading it
1.Dance with Dragons ( Song of Fire and Ice series / also known as Game of Thrones series for those who follow the HBO TV series version) - George RR Martin
The book was just brilliant and this was the last of the series that is published as on today and with this begins the long wait for the next one from Martin in this series.
2.Boy Who Harnessed Wind - William Kamkwamba
True story of a boy from Africa who managed to overcome poverty, absence of formal education to become a successful rural inventor
3.Indian Summers by John Wright - Must read for any Indian cricket fan as Wright covers the early days of what was a Golden era for Indian cricket.
4. Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh - Thanks for the recco Vaidya, enjoyed this totally. Mind was blown :)
5. Amul's India : Based on 50 years of Amul advertising
Good fun to go through all those Amul Ads gave a sense of India as they touched upon almost all major issues/events
6.Burning Rubber by Charles Jennings
Solid book on Formula One, good read for all racing buffs
7. Rahul Dravid : Timeless Steel , a collection of articles of Rahul Dravid put together by ESPN Cricinfo
8.Adventures of an intrepid film critic - Anna Vetticad
Story of Bollywood in its entirety as a film critic decides to watch all hindi movies releasing in NCR in 2011. Not really as interesting read as i hoped as the insights and conclusions were something most of us sort of knew :(
9.Stories by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
Collection of short stories, yet to complete!
10.Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
Easily the best book i have read this year and for quite a while, Katherino Boo brilliantly captures poverty and struggle in Urban India, hopes, aspirations and challenges along with how the system really works.
11.Cut Like Wound by Anita Nair
Pleasant Surprise this one, really enjoyed it part of the reason could be that this was set in Bangalore :)
12.Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul Bhattacharya
Thanks Vaidya for the B'day gift, very good read as the author covers not only cricket but opening up of border and hearts between two estranged nations for a brief period. Sights and sounds of Pakistan was an added bonus to the experience of reliving our best tour to Pakistan
My target at start of year was the usual 25 books, but with lot of things happening on personal front I expected the numbers to be much lower... but till i put this together didnt realise it was this low!
Listing the books from Jan to Dec in the order of when i finished reading it
1.Dance with Dragons ( Song of Fire and Ice series / also known as Game of Thrones series for those who follow the HBO TV series version) - George RR Martin
The book was just brilliant and this was the last of the series that is published as on today and with this begins the long wait for the next one from Martin in this series.
2.Boy Who Harnessed Wind - William Kamkwamba
True story of a boy from Africa who managed to overcome poverty, absence of formal education to become a successful rural inventor
3.Indian Summers by John Wright - Must read for any Indian cricket fan as Wright covers the early days of what was a Golden era for Indian cricket.
4. Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh - Thanks for the recco Vaidya, enjoyed this totally. Mind was blown :)
5. Amul's India : Based on 50 years of Amul advertising
Good fun to go through all those Amul Ads gave a sense of India as they touched upon almost all major issues/events
6.Burning Rubber by Charles Jennings
Solid book on Formula One, good read for all racing buffs
7. Rahul Dravid : Timeless Steel , a collection of articles of Rahul Dravid put together by ESPN Cricinfo
8.Adventures of an intrepid film critic - Anna Vetticad
Story of Bollywood in its entirety as a film critic decides to watch all hindi movies releasing in NCR in 2011. Not really as interesting read as i hoped as the insights and conclusions were something most of us sort of knew :(
9.Stories by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
Collection of short stories, yet to complete!
10.Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
Easily the best book i have read this year and for quite a while, Katherino Boo brilliantly captures poverty and struggle in Urban India, hopes, aspirations and challenges along with how the system really works.
11.Cut Like Wound by Anita Nair
Pleasant Surprise this one, really enjoyed it part of the reason could be that this was set in Bangalore :)
12.Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul Bhattacharya
Thanks Vaidya for the B'day gift, very good read as the author covers not only cricket but opening up of border and hearts between two estranged nations for a brief period. Sights and sounds of Pakistan was an added bonus to the experience of reliving our best tour to Pakistan
My target at start of year was the usual 25 books, but with lot of things happening on personal front I expected the numbers to be much lower... but till i put this together didnt realise it was this low!
Hoping to do at least 20 in 2013 :)
10 comments:
Calcutta Chromosome was really good. Yet to do Indian Summers. I read some good ones too... About 5 in all I think when I was in India. Right now, midway throughEnchantress of Florence.
Thought you were going to update with a few more you missed?
Vaidya smsed me saying the lists are up, yours and his and that I should do mine. In Reply I said, oh! Anush has resurfaced for some air. So vaidya tells me that it is my turn to surface! I read Calcutta Chromosome and shadow lines back to back and I remember getting feverish reading the CC. One of the best books in Indian writing. The Anita Nair seems interesting.. will try to borrow.
Good to see you again. Write more this year.
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