Mundane Musings

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a true prize winning book, written in that particular style that these books often come in. That said, after reading the book my most pressing urge was to re-read it -rather leisurely this time, connecting the time lines and the journeys of the various characters. When I had started to read this book, I found myself losing my attention plenty of times. I wanted to push on and finish the book, just the way I felt when I had read The Handmaid's Tale or Cloud Atlas. The latter books, both, were a beautiful read as the I moved on through the initial parts. The same too with The Narrow Road to the Deep North, only I wouldn't use the word 'beautiful' to describe this meandering, philosophical, prose-y book. At first I had trouble connecting with the Australian POWs and the back and fro movement of the story, but slowly I got caught up by the effects of this side of the war that I have...

Rather unexpectedly I came upon this dampening observation that I couldn’t share my e-books with my friends. Of course when I had read ‘Below’ by Ryan Lockwood on Google play books and had wanted to immediately share it with my reading partner P, I was deeply disappointed to know that though I had purchased the ebook, I had no copy of it on my drive. I had promptly forgotten that deep disappointment as we continued our shared passion to read by lending each other hard copies of the books we purchased. It resurfaced recently while I was trying to watch my downloaded Amazon Prime movie on my TV. I realized that I needed a really smart TV to watch the movie with S. He hates seeing it on the mobile or lap top.  Recently, I believe Kindle has allowed its users to sharebooks with their families albeit for only 14 days, which is death for a slow reader like me. The borrower I believe would not require a Kindle or Fire Tablet, instead they could read it on the Kindle app. But of ...