Bookwormery
Despite the maelstrom of deadlines billowing about my desk, I still have time to flit between books like a literary …
Category Archives: Caledoniyya Book Club
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
“My words seem to me like birds too young and weak to fly far.” Which is pretty much my sentiment …
Summer Nights, Summer Reads
The past few weeks have passed in a veritable blur of accumulating deadlines and impending events. After a hiatus of …
The Unbearable Genius of Milan Kundera
I’m only 57 pages into The Unbearable Lightness of Being by the Czech literary goliath that is Milan Kundera and …
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Questions of identity have long suffused both my working and personal life. Entire train journeys have been passed musing whether …
Anil’s Ghost
A few weeks ago I bemoaned a sudden inability to read beyond the first ten pages of a book. Regardless …
And the Beatings Go On and On: Afghan and Nepalese Women
The days have just spun by and the realisation that it has been a week since my last post is …
The Kite Runner
A confirmed book-glutton, I have only two quirks: I cannot bear reaching the final pages, and I avoid high-profile reads …
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
A few months ago, flushed with adoration for all things Marjane Satrapi, I bought a slim volume by the name …
Middle East Illusions
In Middle East Illusions, Noam Chomsky unites previous and new material to construct a review of contemporary global politics that …
