Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
Books I loved this year ... Fiction: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan) https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/ On The Beach

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Radhika, Y.
Children of Air India by Reneé Saklikar (poetry) The Jaguar's Children and The Tiger by John Vaillant The Illegal by Lawrence Hill Don't Tell me you are afraid by Guiseppe Catozzella (english version soon in 2016) The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shehner

[silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Thaths
For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book recommendation this holiday season. What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/NewYear's holidays? Past silk list recommendations have

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Rajesh Mehar
I've enjoyed reading: Deep Green Resistance by Authors: Aric McBay, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Seasons of Trouble by Rohini Mohan (winner of the Shakti Bhat first book prize) On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 08:43 Radhika, Y. wrote: > Children of Air India by Reneé Saklikar

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths wrote: [...] > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > * The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > by Siddhartha Mukherjee. An >

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Amit Varma
Superforecasting by Phlip Tetlock: http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00Y78X7HY?keywords=superforecasting=1449804795_=sr_1_1=digital-text=1-1 The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley:

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM Amit Varma wrote: > Superforecasting by Phlip Tetlock: > > > http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00Y78X7HY?keywords=superforecasting=1449804795_=sr_1_1=digital-text=1-1 Tetlock did a SALT talk about this recently

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Abhineeta Raghunath
This isn't a book, exactly. But it's a web series that's taking shape while touching upon history, mythology, warfare, feminism, and fantasy. It's called the #KProject, and is available in little doses here: http://urbangirldom.com/wp/category/k-project/ But if it interests you very much, read

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thaths wrote: > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are > you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/NewYear's > holidays?

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM Radhika, Y. wrote: > That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shehner (Cop's real life account of the > botched investigation of murdered aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown > Eastside) > Are these same murders that Justin Trudeau ordered an

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Thaths
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:43 PM Ashwin Nanjappa wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths wrote: > [...] > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > > I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > Indeed. BTW, Albina wrote a fiction book

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Ingrid
On 11 December 2015 at 08:35, Thaths wrote: > For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation > this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are > you eagerly looking forward to reading