Category: Books
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Book Review: Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
“Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation. [..] In other words, in order to believe in what we think our nation stands for, we must constantly, every day, in small acts or thoughts and large, deceive ourselves, as we constantly rehearse our comforting bedtime stories.” Julian Barnes Barnes And His Obsession With […]
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How Not To Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love by Logan Ury
“Great relationships are created, not discovered.” ~ Logan Ury, Flashback: The situation before I picked up the book I must confess that I was a socially inept person to some extent. The impact of this weakness was exacerbated whenever I went out for a date. Over-dependence on my ‘intelligence’ and my cocky expectation that women […]
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Book Review: Ghacchar Ghocchar by Vivek Shanbhag
“Language communicates in terms of what is already known; it chokes up when asked to deal with the entirely unprecedented.” ~ Vivek Shanbhag in Ghacchar Ghocchar The Backstory There are few books that bring warmth and happiness whenever you read them. Among them is a subset that manages to make you reflect on your personal […]
The Idiosyncratic Idiot 