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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wendy McClure

The Wilder life

Can readers become such big fans that they are taken to the books they read as teens? The way, the author revisits the books she read as a child just like Courtney Sullivan indulges in her doll house compulsion.
Vanity cakes.

The little house cookbook like Andrew beahr's Twains Feast or Chris Kimball's Fannies Last supper



Elif Shafak

Black Milk

Stories had given me a sense of continuity,center and coherence - the three Cs that I sorely lacked. - Elif Shahak

continuity and center are opposite.

Adalet Agaoglu

Mathnawi

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Seth Muller

Canyon Crossing
Juan Martin Botero

Paul Guest

One more theory about happiness

John Baxter

The most beautiful walk in the world

It snows in Paris?
Confiture d oignons. This reminded of an onion pickle(different from onion chutney served with dosas) that my Tamil roomate shared in undergrad.

The Hay Wain

In ovis opalis
Psychogeography
Cloche
Filofax
tisane

Another Paul Theroux book

The tao of Travel

Donn Fendler
Dervla Murphy

In old Patagonia express, Theroux says that there is nothing shocking about leaving home, but rather a slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window, and disappears, and becomes part of the past.
I havent felt this feeling much while doing the trips from school to home and back after each semester. But as the train approaches home, I cant contain myself.
Freya Stark

Sunday, August 7, 2011

A swollen nose
is what I find in the
mirror today
All these days I
might not have had a nose at all
It never stood out like this