This post made me look around and realize how much I adore our bookshelves…
Sometime in 2005, we ran out of bookshelf space. Done. All gone. But there was a small problem - we still had about 30 boxes of books in storage and we had to get them out.
The boxes showed up, we doubled up [...]
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I get very involved with the characters in a book. I’ve laughed and cried, been elated or depressed based on what happens to the people in it. Maybe it is because I visualize as I read and the characters become much more real to me.
And… I can’t stand stress and waiting to find out what [...]
It is a given than artists and other “creative” types are quirky. They get a lot of leeway because everyone expects them to be slightly odd. But I am discovering that scientists can be equally odd.
I am reading Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything. It is a great book and I am fascinated [...]
Confused’s post on motives behind charity giving, reminded me about one of the most analytical ways to think about charitable giving that I�ve ever heard of.
Bjorn Lomborg, a Scandinavian economist, became famous for his controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, that challenged the notion that our ecology was at risk. He proposed that our environment was [...]
This is cool. Kiran Desai became the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize for her book “The Inheritance Of Loss”. The last Indian woman to win it was Arundathi Roy for “God Of Small Things”, which I loved.
It took Kiran eight years to write the novel (wow!) and she dedicated it to her [...]
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