For the past few years that I have been blogging, regular readers of my blog must have noticed my lamenting the lack of anything intelligent or thought-provoking to read. Most of my complaining has been about books – old and new – that unprofessional PR agency idiot bosses and their cronies in RK Swamy/BBDO Chennai… Continue reading When Prying into Writers’ Lives Passes Off as Literature
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It must certainly be an eternity since I read a novel from the 19th century. My aged father had ordered a copy of Middlemarch by George Eliot from Amazon more than a year ago and I thought I must read it. I have already shared some of my observations about the book on social media,… Continue reading Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
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Anyone who has read Simon Winchester’s book, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, will wonder how the story of the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary can ever be fictionalized. It is a fascinating account of an unlikely volunteer and his helping James Murray, the editor of the first OED, with words, their meanings and usage. Anyhow,… Continue reading A Young Girl’s Dictionary
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