April books

[semperfiona]

I'm not really enjoying the Read the World exercise. It may be bad luck, but I've had a run of books I couldn't read, or had to slog through. Maybe a mismatch between the recommender(s) taste and mine, maybe a tendency for foreign books to have esthetics I don't appreciate, who knows. But I might need a break from it. Well, at least the audiobooks are things I'm enjoying.

1. Indexing: Reflections, Seanan McGuire (audio)


2. +India Unbound, Gurcharan Das (India) (paper) (abandoned ~30%)
   A cross between a history, a polemic and a memoir. I had high hopes for this one, but I disliked the author's free market capitalistic politics from the start, and when he went into an apologia for the caste system, complete with disparaging remarks about how the quotas for lower-caste people in government-owned factories had destroyed productivity, I just couldn't take it anymore.


3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, +JK Rowling (UK) (audio)


4. Chaos Choreography, Seanan McGuire (paper)


5. Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire (paper)

Comments

[khalulu]

I haven't tried the read-the-world thing - it sounds like a cool idea to read books from all over, but it's too bad if the one making the list has different taste from yours.

I can think of some books from India I've really enjoyed if you want to try a different one! If you like sprawling family sagas, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, set in India in the 50's, is one of my favorite books, thoughtful and funny and humane and serious all at once - it's just LONG. Like, more than 1000 pages. But so endearing. Midnight's Children, one of Salman Rushdie's earliest books, has more bizarre humor and is also great. Long ago I read Two Virgins by Kamala Markandaya, a novel about two sisters in rural India, and loved it.

[semperfiona]

I may try those suggestions! Thank you