My pace of OBOC has slowed down, but have been reading a number of other interesting books. Given that 2014 has been declared as the year of reading women, I too want to make an effort to read more women than before but with foreign literature it is certainly more difficult. I finally read Isabel Allende's "Daughter of Fortune" and re-read Atwood's "A handmaid's tale" after many many years. I have Kate Moss's Labyrinth and Kingsolver's Lacuna and J.K.Rowling's Casual Vacancy on my reading pile but I doubt if I will get to them in the next couple of months. Men are coming in the way :)
I finished T.M.Krishna's "A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story" and have been so engrossed in it. I wished my paternal grandmom was around so I could debate and discuss the issues raised by TMK. This is a must-read book for anyone remotely interested in Indian Classical Music.
As part of OBOC, i read "The Blue Sky" by Mongolian writer Galsan Tschinag. Set in Mongolia in the '40s it is the first part of an autobiographical trilogy by the author. Covering his early childhood years spent as the son of a herder in the Mongolian Steppes, the book is narrated from the perspective of a child. Day to day life, sheep herding, grandma, pet dogs, migration, clash of tradition and modernization are all covered. After reading the book I wanted to go back and watch the Story of the weeping camel - a movie i had watched many years ago, set in Mongolia. Couldn't find it on Netflix so ended up watching Julia Roberts adventures in Mongolia instead.
This year being the 100th anniversary of World War I i am sure we are going to be bombarded by books on this topic. I am going to try and read "A world undone" to refresh the history in my mind. If i have time i will probably read "Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman in the spirit of reading more women.
I am also working on the Master and Margarita (Bulgakov - Russia), The museum of innocence (Pamuk - Turkey) , and yet to start The Fortunes of Wangrin(Amadou Hampate Ba - Mali) all for OBOC.
This blogpost is very incoherent I know, but am in bed with a bad back, surrounded by a pile of books. My spouse is bewildered at how my daughter and i both read so many books simultaneously. She is getting through Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, and re-reading the Goddess girls, switching to Shel Silverstein poems and also has to read a book for class (Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo). I guess women can indeed keep track of multiple narratives at the same time.
Enough said, have a bunch of books to read, so will get on with that!
I finished T.M.Krishna's "A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story" and have been so engrossed in it. I wished my paternal grandmom was around so I could debate and discuss the issues raised by TMK. This is a must-read book for anyone remotely interested in Indian Classical Music.
As part of OBOC, i read "The Blue Sky" by Mongolian writer Galsan Tschinag. Set in Mongolia in the '40s it is the first part of an autobiographical trilogy by the author. Covering his early childhood years spent as the son of a herder in the Mongolian Steppes, the book is narrated from the perspective of a child. Day to day life, sheep herding, grandma, pet dogs, migration, clash of tradition and modernization are all covered. After reading the book I wanted to go back and watch the Story of the weeping camel - a movie i had watched many years ago, set in Mongolia. Couldn't find it on Netflix so ended up watching Julia Roberts adventures in Mongolia instead.
This year being the 100th anniversary of World War I i am sure we are going to be bombarded by books on this topic. I am going to try and read "A world undone" to refresh the history in my mind. If i have time i will probably read "Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman in the spirit of reading more women.
I am also working on the Master and Margarita (Bulgakov - Russia), The museum of innocence (Pamuk - Turkey) , and yet to start The Fortunes of Wangrin(Amadou Hampate Ba - Mali) all for OBOC.
This blogpost is very incoherent I know, but am in bed with a bad back, surrounded by a pile of books. My spouse is bewildered at how my daughter and i both read so many books simultaneously. She is getting through Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, and re-reading the Goddess girls, switching to Shel Silverstein poems and also has to read a book for class (Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo). I guess women can indeed keep track of multiple narratives at the same time.
Enough said, have a bunch of books to read, so will get on with that!
