Thursday, August 13, 2009
Came across
this,
here and it sounds interesting – 10 Books from 10 Countries in 10 Months.. Am looking to expand my reading horizon, so here’s to reading more literature from outside of my usual hunting grounds.
Initial list of books (with more to come) below. Since I’m coming to the party late, am including a few books I have read since March..
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (Pakistan)
- The Thing around your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
- The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)
- The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (UK)
- Reaching Bombay Central by Shama Futehally (India)
I was initially skeptical of Hamlet, arguably one of Shakespeare’s finest tragedies, being re-imagined as a comedy. In case you don’t remember the storyline, Atul Kumar (playing a clown who plays Hamlet), helpfully summarizes the plot for the audience at the beginning
Hamlet dies, Ophelia dies, Gertrude dies, Claudius dies
How could you make this funny? As it turns out, by the end of the evening, the audience were rolling in the aisles with laughter.
(Continued)
I first started
blogging in 2004. I was twenty years old, in my last year of college and had no idea what I was going to do once I grow up.
Since then, I’ve lived in two countries, in three different cities, moved four apartments and now, five years later, I’m a student again and still have no idea what I am going to do with the rest of my life!
They say, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!
Welcome to the new blog/site, which is an attempt to kickstart my writing
