In Progress
Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore
Argumentative Indian - Amratya Sen
Done(recent one on top)
The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien.
The undercover economist - Tim Hardford
Inheritence of Loss - Kiran Desai
Crusader Gold Gold by David Gibbins
Thud by Terry Pratchet
Suite française by Irène Némirovsky
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times by James Finn Garner
One Hundred Years of Solitutde(Spanish: Cien años de soledad), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I started with One Hundred Years of Solitutde(Spanish: Cien años de soledad), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez noble laurette.
Start was very slow pace, but beauty of master strokes on paper is Word come like butterflies from all over and they make u live and experience characters lifes. Story of a family's struggle, and the history of their fictional town, Macondo, for one hundred years, crosses genres, combining elements of history, magical realism, and pure fiction.
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Next one was on list for quite some time, a book which was in top rated book for almost 10 months or so, a book written posthumously going through scripts wrote by author during panic and chatic periods of one of worst memories in recent history
called world war II. For some one to keep notes while struggling to keep alive during a war initself is incredible. This one is none but Suite française by Irène Némirovsky a author who was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution.This French writer of Russian Jewish origin.
In July 1942, having just completed the first two of the series, Némirovsky was arrested as a Jew and detained at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz, where she died of typhus. The notebook containing the two novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998. They were published, in a single volume entitled Suite française, in 2004.
'Suite Française' ('Storm'/'Storms') portrays life in France in the period following June 1940, the month in which the invading German army rapidly defeated the defending French; Paris and northern France immediately came under German occupation.
The first novel, Tempête en juin (Storm in June) depicts the flight of citizens from Paris in the hours preceding the German advance and in the days following it.
The second, Dolce, shows life in a small French country town, Bussy, in the first, strangely peaceful, months of the German occupation. Again here beauty is in begning naturally every villeger hates invader german army, sells them goods at exorbitent prices to show there protest, but slowly human side comes in picture and villegers and invaders live in peace and when german troops get orders to move to new russian war front entire village farewlls them in silence showing we care for lives irrespective of which side one is on.
The third novel, Captivité, for which Némirovsky left a bare plot outline, would have shown the coalescing of a resistance, with some already-introduced characters now under arrest, and under threat of death, in Paris. The fourth and fifth would perhaps have been called Batailles and La Paix ("Battles" and "Peace"), but these exist only as titles against which Némirovsky had placed question marks; necessarily so, since, at the point at which she wrote, the events that would eventually end the War had not yet happened and could only be guessed at.
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Next one i got my hands accidentally since my roomie was reading this one and one more by Thud by Terry Pratchet, i choose Crusader Gold Gold by David Gibbins over former one since after reading Da Vinci
i have realised i am not much of a guy who likes to read critisim or fun on others believes and religions, its good to read but to a limit as more u read books critising others more u tend to believe them and thats not what fascinates me, a simple Respect Ones believes and Respect Others is what I have been a believer of. So lets get on with Crusader.
The greatest prize missing from the final bloody conflict of the Crusades. For many it is the Jewish menorah, the huge golden candlestick looted by the Romans in AD70 when they sacked the Temple in Jerusalem and marched through Rome in triumph. It was carried off to Constantinople. Now, nobody knows where it is. Some Jewish activists today think it survived and is concealed in the Vatican. Some think it took another altogether more extraordinary turn, at the beginning of history itself ...Jack Howard is the only man who can find out. But the clock is ticking against him. Will ancient history give up one of its darkest secrets? The quest to find out takes him from the fall of the Roman Empire to the last days of Nazi power - and uncovers a trail more thrilling than anyone could have imagined.
Reading was enjoyable to most of part but in end to make it more spicy or adventurous author has lost track and control on story, few of pages i simply flipped through.
Again one more book i hot upon accidentally was Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life & Times by James Finn Garner.
Very modern, political humor, best part is classic stories 12 time-tested tales and retold them with the newfound sensitivity of our times. I loved new world Wooomeen it fits so much in todays too much cellphonised hinglish than ever. The results are extremely funny.
See accidents and mistakes help you learn new things, all u need is habit to lay your hands(with permission of course cause others books and wifes have universally accepted different rules on laying hands) on books, a steaming hot coffee/indian tea(definition of a warm and nice day was wrote after a cuppa of darjeeling/asaam tea) and readyness to enjoy vastness of subject along with subject and characters in it.
The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien.
As a die hard LOTR fan, release of this book was a feast and some grief that no more of masterly penned dream worlds will come on paper any more. So grabbed this book and started new journey
in differnet JRRT world this time.
The Children of Húrin takes the reader back to a time long before The Lord of the Rings, in an area of Middle-earth that was to be drowned before Hobbits appeared, and when the great enemy was still the fallen Vala,
Morgoth, and Sauron was only Morgoth's lieutenant. This heroic romance is the tale of the Man, Húrin, who dared to defy Morgoth's force of evil, and his family's tragic destiny, as it follows his son Túrin Turambar's
travels through the lost world of Beleriand
The undercover economist - Tim Hardford
Book provides introductory information on principles of economics, including but not limited to demand-supply interactions,
market failures, externalities, globalization, international trade, comparative advantage. It explains in non-technical terms
how Starbucks and other Coffee providers price their products, why it is hard to buy a decent used car, why health insurance system
in United States is failing, and why poor countries remain poor while China grew continuously rich in last couple of decades, among other things.
Inheritence of Loss - Kiran Desai
This book came on list & later hands due to booker and reviewes sorrounding it. For any of ruskin bond fan, this book will come as easy as any bond books, set in similar mountain sorroundings with life and expectations of people too very similar.
Set in the 1980s, the book tells the story of Jemubhai Popatlal Patel, a judge living out a disenchanted retirement in Kalimpong, a hill station in the Himalayan foothills, and his relationship with his granddaughter Sai.
Another element in the novel is the encroachment on their lives by a band of Nepalese insurgents. Another concern of the novel is the life of Biju, the son of Mr. Patel's cook, an illegal immigrant in New York.
Happy Reading......
