I first picked up Jasper Griegson’s book The Complete Complainer from the library but I didn’t get a chance to read it. Then, for some strange reason I couldn’t find the book there. I should’ve complained but I was lazy.
The book mysteriously appeared on the shelves much later and this time I picked it [...]
Philip Hesketh’s book Life’s a game, so fix the odds (How to Be More Persuasive and Influential in Your Personal and Business Life) seems like it’s just your usual marketing or selling book, but it actually is a book about communication and persuasion.
Hesketh’s use of anecdotes and humour makes the book light and you [...]
Nicholas Naseem Taleb’s book Fooled By Randomness is not an easy book to read. You need to understand a few mathematical concepts, you need to think a bit when you’re reading (now there’s a concept), and yet some of the ideas will fly by and may need further reading. (At least this is how it [...]
Having read and liked Mark Haddon’s The curious incident of the dog in the night time, it took me a year or so to buy his next book, A Spot of Bother. Okay, so I was waiting for the paperback version, but details details.
A Spot of Bother is about a family of four, George and [...]
Before reading The God Delusion (TGD), I had never read any books by Richard Dawkins. I did know about his research and his books but I hadn’t read any of them.
TGD is Dawkins’ attempt to deconstruct religion and God and is seemingly a manifesto for atheists. The trouble is that the language in the [...]
I would never have bought Chaim Potok’s book The Chosen if it were not for Pradeep Sebastian’s recommendation in his column in the Hindu. Glad I bought the book.
The Chosen is about the relationship between two boys, their transition into adulthood, and their relationship with their own fathers. They are both Jewish but belong to [...]
I’d heard about Craig Murray because of his comments regarding the controversy that took place when Alisher Usmanov bought shares of Arsenal Football Club.
When I saw his book at the British Library, naturally, I picked it up. Murder in Samarkhand is about Murray’s stint in Uzbekistan as the British Ambassador and about how he [...]
When I picked up Danny Wallace’s book Yes Man at the library, I wasn’t sure if I would read the book. I put it back and then went back later to pick it up. In a way, I said Yes to reading the book.
Yes Man is a book about Danny Wallace’s adventures in saying Yes [...]
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is Bill Bryson’s take on his own childhood, growing up in Iowa in the 50s and 60s. Bryson examines his childhood with his characteristic humour and his ability to make his stories interesting.
His anecdotes about life at home with his parents, his interactions around the neighbourhood, [...]
I used to read Shari Caudron’s columns which were syndicated in The Hindu a while back and I always found them interesting. So, when I got a chance to pick up some books from Amazon, I picked up Who are you people? .
I started reading the book a while back and then for some [...]
