Archive for the ‘Books &c.’ Category
Squee!
Posted by: Vasudha on: August 31, 2009
- In: Books &c.| Notebook
- 4 Comments
[...] So, I read this amazing book today. It kicked me around like a pathetic football. It stepped on my worthless opinions and crushed them cruelly. It opened my eyes, and set me free. It fucking changed me. In a day.
Try changing someone, in a day, with 200-odd pages.
Balls. [...]
My Picks (March 2009)
Posted by: Vasudha on: April 1, 2009
My picks for March 2009:
> Rana Dasupta, “Solo”
> David Hand, Heikki Mannila, and Padhraic Smyth, “Principles of Data Mining” [...]
My Picks (February 2009)
Posted by: Vasudha on: March 1, 2009
My picks for February 2009:
> Daniel Defoe, “Moll Flanders”
> Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”
> Edward W. Minium, Bruce M. King and Gordon Bear, “Statistical Reasoning in Psychology and Education”
> Clifford T. Morgan, Richard A. King, John R. Weisz and John Schopler, “Introdution to Psychology”
> Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, “The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay”
> Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam, Maud and Other Poems”
> Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” [...]
For Your Delectation
Posted by: Vasudha on: January 19, 2009
> Aravind Adiga, “The Elephant”
> Catherynne M. Valente, “A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica”
> Kent Woodyard, “A Literary Critic Reviews My Résumé” [...]
Sorry, Jelinek
Posted by: Vasudha on: October 13, 2008
- In: Books &c.| Notebook
- 3 Comments
Something’s wrong with me. I was supposed to read Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher but, instead, I took out Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day — yet again (I’ve read that book a million times already) — and finished rereading it this morning. [...]
7 p.m. on an idle tuesday
Posted by: Vasudha on: September 30, 2008
- In: Books &c.| Notebook
- 7 Comments
It’s been a crazy time. Quite a few Important Things happened last week: seminars, presentations, deadlines, interesting people, difficult people, and bloody fights. Suddenly, things were either too trivial or too huge to put in here.
I finished reading Beloved a few days ago. It’s about a black infant who dies at the hands of her mother. [...]
Twaddle
Posted by: Vasudha on: August 30, 2008
- In: Books &c.| Notebook
- 10 Comments
There are some people you know, who just change your entire opinion of something. A few of them can do that in a month and a half. Being an only child, I grew up around adults — I still don’t know how to talk to kids — that’s why only a handful of my friends are younger than me. One of my juniors taught me that even younger people can be absolutely wonderful. I’mma start talkin’ to kids now. [...]
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I am an undergrad physics student. I enjoy writing in my spare time, and live in Delhi with my parents. [...]
