So why the new blog now!!
Started reading (and I mean not your prescribed text book) pretty late in life. Over the last 10- 12 years have been reading books liking it or hating it completely on the emotional connect the book makes.
And that makes me, as an IIT aspirant once, devour Chetan Bhagats debut novel, even as the knowledgeable critics tore into it.
After reading "Midnight Children" all I could think was "Implausible Storyline, Too many native words". And then it went on to win the Booker of Bookers,
I read Legends of Khasak and felt it was just a story of a drifter in a fictional town and wondered why all the brouhaha about Malayalam new wave and magical realism was all about.
I know I am missing out of a lot of good thing in process of reading. I knew nothing of the literary devices, the various genres and other techniques on to which the writers put a whole lot of energy. So I am ready to educate myself.
Over the next 10 years I plan to document my reading experience to figure out the novels I read, things I take away from it and hopefully come up with a point of view at the end of it.
I plan to use guides in the process of reading from literary big wigs like Thomas C. Foster, Adler, Von Doren,Susan Bauer and Harold Bloom.
The following books mainly to compile the reading list over the period. Apart from these I plan to use the blog to put across a few words of all those books that still lie in the book shelf and also the impulse buys I will indulge in the coming years.
So here hoping for a bon voyage.
Started reading (and I mean not your prescribed text book) pretty late in life. Over the last 10- 12 years have been reading books liking it or hating it completely on the emotional connect the book makes.
And that makes me, as an IIT aspirant once, devour Chetan Bhagats debut novel, even as the knowledgeable critics tore into it.
After reading "Midnight Children" all I could think was "Implausible Storyline, Too many native words". And then it went on to win the Booker of Bookers,
I read Legends of Khasak and felt it was just a story of a drifter in a fictional town and wondered why all the brouhaha about Malayalam new wave and magical realism was all about.
I know I am missing out of a lot of good thing in process of reading. I knew nothing of the literary devices, the various genres and other techniques on to which the writers put a whole lot of energy. So I am ready to educate myself.
Over the next 10 years I plan to document my reading experience to figure out the novels I read, things I take away from it and hopefully come up with a point of view at the end of it.
I plan to use guides in the process of reading from literary big wigs like Thomas C. Foster, Adler, Von Doren,Susan Bauer and Harold Bloom.
The following books mainly to compile the reading list over the period. Apart from these I plan to use the blog to put across a few words of all those books that still lie in the book shelf and also the impulse buys I will indulge in the coming years.
So here hoping for a bon voyage.
