Trying to focus on a design document I was preparing I had a perpetual frown on my face. My cell phone rang and an unfamiliar number flashed on the screen. Tempted to let it go to voicemail, I looked at it and on an impulse answered the call. A young female voice queried “Lakshmi?”. “Yes.” […]
Up earlier than normal for a weekend, I heard K pull out of our driveway on his way to a cricket match. The clock showed 7:45 AM. I lit the lamps, made myself a cup of tea and sat on the couch with my phone to call Amma. Phone call done, I looked around. The […]
In keeping with the rules of Thoughtful Thursdays, here is my review of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Husseini.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is the story of Mariam and Laila. It is the story of Rasheed the husband they share and the children Aziza and Zalmai. The book is divided into four parts. The first […]
Sometimes in the hours before I am ready to call it a day, I sit on my recliner, feet up, laptop perched comfortably on my legs and browse. I cover news from MSNBC, The Hindu, Rediff, CNN, BBC and Google News. Then wondering what to do next, I haunt all my fave bloggers in the […]
Rads of tunneling thru’ and Bavani of The journey of life…. have both tagged me to do this interesting post on the book nearest to me. Thank you both!
The rules are as under:
Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged […]
I have my iPhone configured to check emails from my multiple gmail accounts and today morning I woke up to 6 new messages. Thrilled, I opened it up to see an email with a subject that said “Contact from —-”.
It isn’t often that I get messages from people who read my blog. OK, lets make […]
Its not Thursday I know but I was way too tired to post this yesterday night. After much deliberation, I have decided on “A Thousand Splendid Suns” By Khaled Hosseini. Here is a review from amazon.com
“From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his bestselling The Kite Runner with another searing epic of Afghanistan […]
Indeed it does. I am talking of the book we need to pick for the next edition of Thoughtful Thursdays. Going by the suggestions in the comments thread and one off conversations I have had with a few of you. Here is the list. This is in no way complete. Feel free to throw in […]
I finally finished reading the book. Yayy!!
To recap, starting with this post here, three weeks later than scheduled, here is my take on the book “Eat Pray Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert.
The book is 333 pages long, divided into three sections each covering the author’s travels in Italy, India and Indonesia. The typeset is easy on […]
Most mornings as I have my pot of tea simmering on the stove, I have my laptop up on my kitchen island and bring up Google Reader to catch up on all those night owls who have been posting while I have been gloriously asleep. As I skim through the new entries and mark some […]
