Book Reviews for Feb 2010 - Part 2
It was only 15 days ago I was bemoaning my meagre collection of books to review, and here I am with six more! Sleepless nights FTW!
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It was only 15 days ago I was bemoaning my meagre collection of books to review, and here I am with six more! Sleepless nights FTW!
This month has not been very good for reading. I hope to correct that next month! Here are my reviews:
I spent a lot of time this month trying to get through Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821, but I just cannot read academic books.
Seems like the holiday season is a good time to read more books! So, here are 8 more books reviewed:
Wow, so ends this year! I cant believe it is more than a year since I started reviewing books monthly. In all, I have reviewed about 74 books (+7 now) since last November. Writing book reviews was one of my excuses to get back to writing, and I am glad it worked. Here are the books I read this month.
For once, I will be able to observe Thanksgiving Celebrations in the US. Scott Berkun has a great post on myths of thanksgiving. I hope to spend my long weekend looking back on what I accomplished this year and creating plans for the next. Hope you all have a great long weekend!
Here are the books I have read since the last set of books:
I know! November has barely begun and here I am posting my book reviews already thanks to my two-week vacation!
I had a great time in Chennai and Bangalore, meeting very interesting people and drinking in the new developments. It could be my hallucination, but there seems to be an abundance of opportunities here. Service providers are falling over themselves to provide creative solutions (Per second billing has arrived in India without government intervention, and where are we in U.S.?). This trip has definitely made me rethink where I want to be 5 years from now.
I am going to India soon, so I wanted to get my book reviews out before that. I had two nights of insomnia thanks to an allergy and managed to read these 5 books before the month ended. Here are my reviews:
I last read a popular thriller in 2000. I picked this book up because Stephen King cites Dean Koontz as a master of this genre. I was extremely disappointed with Relentless.
It seems like I read more books than there is space to review. So, Eric and Fiddlers (the last book written by Ed McBain) go unreviewed (in short: good reads). Here are the rest of the books I read this month:
I regret to say, I spent most of my “reading hours” reading trivial Agatha Christies. I have no idea why I have such a fascination for her writing (even though it is racist, sexist, and what not). So, I have only 4 books to review here.
I picked this book randomly. I don’t have much success with randomly picked books, but my intuition never stops me from doing so. Yes, this book was one of those miserable failures. But, on the bright side, it seems like I can finally discern how to tell a good story.