October Readings

With all the travelling for the past two months, i only managed to read four engrossing books, two of which were almost half-a-decade old.

1. Kite Runner- a powerful and riveting novel by Khaled Hosseini. It's an honest voice that continues to linger in your head after reading it. Maybe because it is too honest to allow us to see the deepest struggle of our being human, of our inhumanity to humanity, our personal demon of self-preservation, disloyalty, insecurity, and the things we do for personal redemption even as we weed ourselves from the convoluted strings of lies, deception, and perversion. Truly gripping.
2. 2001 Best Travel Writing- Edited by none other than the master himself, Paul Theroux.
3. 2002 The Best American Nonrequired Reading- Edited by the witty Dave Egger. Quite an old issue but this is the best way to capture the massive influence of the Eggersque writing.
4. Night- Elie Wiesel’s personal account of his experience at the Nazi concentration camp