Monthly Archives: February 2009

Review: Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 2007 Library copy Fiction 543 pages Rating: 4/5 What led you to pick up this book? I can’t remember if there was anything specific, beyond the fact that I enjoy novels set in places I have never been, with cultures that are unfamiliar to [...]

Thanks…

Mum. Need I say more? Mum-in-law. I am lucky and grateful that we get along, despite the fact that we don’t actually agree on a lot of issues. Prof DSGG, who was the first academic/professional mentor I ever had. He challenged me to perform and gave me a job as his research assistant when I [...]

One book meme

From A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook: One book you’re currently reading: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing One book that changed your life: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien One book you’d want on a deserted island: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust One book you’ve read more than once: To Kill a Mockingbird by [...]