Goodreads is useful, I find. Plus suggestions from friends.
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From: Mohit mohitmo...@gmail.com
Sent: 30-12-2014 18:01
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Subject: Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Udhay
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:57 AM, 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
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
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
And the MeFi 2014 book recommendations are out:
http://ask.metafilter.com/273482/What-books-from-2014-blew-your-socks-off
Thaths
On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 11:55:49 PM John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
On Dec 4, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM,
My own reading seems to be VERY different from all the others on this
thread, but I wanted to mention a few books that have affected me deeply
this year:
1) The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds. This book brings together all
the latest research on fitness, working out, athletic performance,
Divya
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From: Thaths tha...@gmail.com
Sent: 27-12-2014 03:48
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014
And the MeFi 2014 book recommendations are out:
http://ask.metafilter.com/273482/What-books-from-2014
De-lurking just for you, Thaths :) Most of these were consumed in e-book form,
so there should be no difficulty in finding them - exceptions were the books by
Diana Eck and TM Krishna, picked up at Landmark in Chennai. My list for 2014,
in no particular order: - “Being Mortal: Medicine and
Would also recommend (though not connected to India) The people in the
trees - Hanya Yanagihara ...
ashok
On 3 December 2014 at 00:12, harry listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I can recommend this one, its not a work of fiction, neither is it a
paperback, its actually a coffee-table sort of book
On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 4:27:40 PM harry listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Would also recommend (though not connected to India) The people in the
trees - Hanya Yanagihara ...
That does sound interesting.
Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? Rashmi?
Lahar? Suresh?
On 04-Dec-2014, at 16:33, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? Rashmi?
Lahar? Suresh? Divya? Sumant? Etc.
Mostly studiously avoiding the thread. I just got done donating a ton of my
books (mostly old pulp) to a colonel friend
Speaking of cyber and crime, I did read a Wired novella sized e-book about
John McAfee that was pretty good. That guy is wacked up on some crazy
drugs.
Thaths
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 17:15 Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
On 04-Dec-2014, at 16:33, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? Rashmi?
Lahar? Suresh? Divya? Sumant? Etc.
The two most impressive books I read this year are _Cooked_ by Michael
Pollan and _Gulp_ by Mary Roach. Otherwise, it's
On Dec 4, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? Rashmi?
Lahar? Suresh? Divya? Sumant? Etc.
This year I discovered Flann O'Brien read all of his novels
I can recommend this one, its not a work of fiction, neither is it a
paperback, its actually a coffee-table sort of book (but far more readable)
:
http://www.amazon.in/Handmade-India-Geographic-Encyclopedia-Handicrafts/dp/0789210479/
I had been looking for a book that documented all the
For the sixth year[1] 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
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