Book Reviews: Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel’s Booker winning novel, Wolf Hall is, at its best, a novel left incomplete. At its worst, it seems superfluous, a novel unneeded, retelling a story which has been told hundreds of times in history textbooks- dry as dust tomes languishing in dark, musty corners in school and college libraries the world over have [...]

in which i go blah, blah and blah

well…happy late year to all and sundry, i have not made my customary new year crib this time round, and did not have much to write about or much time to write about anything as such. so there. some updates are in order: i am back in mumbai (a few hours ago- came and found [...]

reading, and other updates

Awite. There seems to be some hectic traveling on the cards, again, so I will leave the blog with a parting note for the next few days just in case I am unable to update anymore in near future.
First up, the reading. Has been going on full throttle, so much so that I am in [...]

quick thoughts

just a quick jotting down of observations before i head home:
1) Any salesman who has his shoes dust-free at the end of the day, either not in front-line sales or a dandy (he may well be in B2B, but that is not sales sales, if you know what i mean).
 
2) Time has probably the worst [...]

reading

so,ok.light reading takes precedence over literature.again.infinite jest is to be put on hold while i go out today and buy the artemis fowl series of books.to be consumed in their entireity.

Reading David F. Wallace, and other things

Reading David Foster Wallace is like taking a peek inside of yourself, and not being very comfortable at what you find in there. I started with Infinite Jest today, and within finishing some ten pages of that nearly thousand page masterpiece, was a fan. But the book is on hold now, as in the time [...]

infinite jest

started reading infinite jest, my first novel by david foster wallace. this is what Jay McInerny had to say about wallace when reviewing the book :
If Mr. Wallace were less talented, you would be inclined to shoot him — or possibly yourself — somewhere right around page 480 of ”Infinite Jest.” In fact, you [...]