{"id":19457,"date":"2017-01-30T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pustakam.net\/?p=19457"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T07:17:11","slug":"books-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pustakam.net\/?p=19457","title":{"rendered":"Books 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been a busy year for me with a lot of travel and work on different fronts. Finding leisure time was difficult. At some point, I stopped visiting our local library. While I went to India thrice during the year and collected a lot of Telugu books, most of them are still waiting to be read. I think I wrote about one book in pustakam.net in the whole year. I regret that, once again, I cannot elaborate a little bit more about some of the books I read this year. Despite everything, I did get to read a lot of interesting stuff this year. Reading (and meeting) Ki.Raajanaaraayanan was an interesting experience. My medical school mentor wrote a novel, and a friend from my Guntur days edited a couple of important books. I thoroughly enjoyed getting reacquainted with the mystery short stories. There was also a good bit of nostalgic and pulp reading this year. A Stone for Danny Fisher, from Harold Robbins\u2019 early days and a favorite novel during our college days, turned out to be still a very good read. I did not keep track of everything I read, but I think this list is almost complete.<\/p>\n

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Steel Magnolias (play) – Robert Harkin; A play about five Southern women (in Louisiana) as they struggle with life\u2019s travails. The title refers to these women \u2013 delicate as the magnolia flower, but display that they are made of steel when the occasion demands it. Made into a hit film starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley Maclaine, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis and Darryl Hannah.<\/p>\n

The Best of American Mystery Stories \u2013 James Patterson<\/a><\/p>\n

Wakes on the Horizon, A selection of poems translated from Telugu \u2013 N S Murty. Facebookers with literary interest are familiar with the translations of Sri Murty.<\/p>\n

Novels<\/strong>
\nReputations \u2013 Juan Gabriel Vasquez; liked it a lot. An aging courageous political cartoonist in Colombia confronts the impact of his actions.<\/p>\n

Dreaming in Cuban \u2013 Cristina Garcia; about a Cuban family with some members still in Cuba and some immigrated to US; began well but became a little difficult to read as it progressed.<\/p>\n

The Children \u2013 Ann Leary; An agoraphobic fake blogger, her mentally ill sister, her wacky mom, her lover, a gold-digging fianc\u00e9e of her brother make for a very interesting novel.<\/p>\n

My Name is Lucy Barton \u2013 Elizabeth Strout; An interesting novel about the relationship between a mother and daughter.<\/p>\n

Lost in a Good Book \u2013 Jasper Fforde. A very interesting sci-fi book, except that this has a lot to do with famous books and literary characters. At times, very funny.<\/p>\n

The Lives of Tao \u2013 Wesley Chu; Kind of a sci-fi novel with a very interesting premise and a good read for the most part.<\/p>\n

The Martian \u2013 Andy Weir; brilliantly conceived and well written; later an interesting film.<\/p>\n

A Stone for Danny Fisher \u2013 Harold Robbins; an old favorite reread decades later. Still interesting.<\/p>\n

The Man on the Washing Machine \u2013 Susan Cox
\nCross Kill \u2013 James Patterson
\nMurder with a Twist \u2013 Tracey Kiely
\nKing Maybe \u2013 Timothy Hallinan
\nThe Question of the Unfamiliar Husband \u2013 EJ Copperman and Jeff Cohen
\nRogue Lawyer \u2013 John Grisham
\nThe Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra \u2013 Vaseem Khan; a mystery novel set in Bombay with the about to retire Inspector Chopra as the sleuth.<\/p>\n

Non-fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pioneer Women \u2013 Joanna L Stratt; An account of the life of women in the Kansas prairies as it was being settled in the late 1800s. Paints a very good picture of what the pioneers had to endure through as they struggled with an often inhospitable environment and occasional problems from their own species.<\/p>\n

The Movie Book. A book about the history of movies (almost all of them Euro-American) with notes about many important movies and moviemakers.<\/p>\n

Skeptic \u2013 Michael Shermer; A collection of columns Prof. Shermer wrote for Scientific American, defining what skepticism is about and exposing much non-scientific nonsense.<\/p>\n

Naked Money \u2013 Charles Wheelan: A well written book about money. Glad to have read it a while before demonetization.<\/p>\n

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics \u2013 Carlo Rovelli<\/p>\n

Komagatamaru: Not Just a Voyage \u2013 Malwinderjit Singh Wariach and Gurdev Singh Sidhu: An authoritative account of the struggles of a group of Punjabees against racism in India and Canada.<\/p>\n

Games Indians Play: Why we are the way we are — V Raghunathan. From the title I thought it was going to be an Indian version of Eric Berne\u2019s famous book about transactional analysis. This is about interpreting the Indian society from the Game theory perspective<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson. A well told story of an interesting person that helped change the world in many ways.<\/p>\n

When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanidhi. A promising young neurosurgeon with interests in literature and philosophy on the verge of beginning his career finds that he has a brain tumor with poor prognosis and decides to share his story with the world.<\/p>\n

Liar, a memoir \u2013 Rob Roberge; Roberge, an author and guitarist, picks a very interesting way of narrating his own story without being clear about how much of it is true.<\/p>\n

Steve McCurry \u2013 Phaidon (Photographs); McCurry is the photographer famous for the Afghan girl photograph. I was at an exhibition of his photographs in Utica in August and got this book.<\/p>\n

sunaada sudha (paintings of saint composers) \u2013 (compiled by) Sarada Purna Susarla Sonty<\/p>\n

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