Author: Shrirang Karandikar

This has been a pretty poor year for books recommended by friends — such as this one! There are some cases where you know what you’re looking for, and you search for it. And that is all that you’ll find. If you wander around aimlessly, you’ll find other interesting stuff that you otherwise wouldn’t have…

Recommended by a friend. My gut reaction was that I wouldn’t get much from this book, and I’m sorry to say that I didn’t. I guess I’m just too jaded! I don’t disagree with anything that Morrie says, but the book had more of the surrounding drama and the actual message tends to get lost…

I had to struggle to get the context right while I was reading this book. He explicitly targets the liberal arts, and I was trying to apply his statements to engineering, and disagreeing with them. I get what Caplan is trying to say at an intellectual level. The amount of analysis that he’s done is amazing, …

This (of course?) reads like vignettes of episodic occurrences that are very loosely strung together in a supposed story, and it ends pretty abruptly. I didn’t have to work too hard to imagine Keillor speaking this as I was reading it. Beautiful, descriptive prose, brings back fond memories of NPR in California and living in…

I’m pretty sure I haven’t read these books before but get the feeling that I’ve read something similar to Ciri moving through space and time. Oh well. Always be scared if you’re the sidekick. Especially if one of the other sidekicks is stepping away from the stage…

Revisiting an old favorite… A glass of tea; the moon; The frogs croak in the weeds. A bat wriggles down across Gold disk to silver reeds. The distant light of lamps. The whirr of winnowing grain. The peace of loneliness. The scent of imminent rain.

How is it even possible to create such worlds?

SciFi/fantasy makes for great reading when I’m overwhelmed with too much going on. And something like this is great to just sink into. The resolution at the end is…. mindblowing! And of course, there can be no better way forward. This works even as a metaphor for life. 

Beautifully written, and what an amazing story! And I finally understood what a hedge fund does.

I wish I had read this decades ago. But then, I probably wouldn’t appreciate it at that time.