So I'm going to do something unusual. My usual habit with stuff I find
interesting is to post it wholesale to silk, both for myself to find
later and for the minds here to process and comment on. Here' I'm
posting only the latter half of some speculation by Charles Stross, a
A reissue, but Romila Thapar's The Past As Present (helpfully subtitled
Forging Contemporary Identities Through History) is worth a read. I don't
know enough about Indian history or mythology to judge this, but it has
some interesting commentary on how the historian approaches her subject,
and how
Yet to read the entire article; but am reminded of Peter F Hamilton's take
on this, in his extended 'Commonwealth' universe, the psychological after
effects seem more or less brushed under the complexity of the larger plot.
Memories are indexed in internal nacelles under the epidermal layer
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Books that are easy to get a hold of in India (and more difficult elsewhere)
preferred (but not required). Fiction and non-fiction recommendations are
equally welcome.
The most memorable books I read in '14:
* The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
* The Locke Lamora series by Scott Lynch
* Zealot by Reza Aslan
* Silkworm The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
* The Skeptical Patriot by Sidin Vadakut
Now that I rarely visit book stores (all my
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that I rarely visit book stores (all my reading is on a Kindle) I
seem to have some difficulty discovering new books and authors. What
do other silklisters do?
Bookblogs.
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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @
On Tue Dec 30 2014 at 5:27:30 PM Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
wrote:
Now that I rarely visit book stores (all my reading is on a Kindle) I
seem to have some difficulty discovering new books and authors. What
do
