After almost two months I feel like myself. Almost. I have set up my workspace like a semi professional, finally, and my workspace is now clutter free.
This is my currently reading stack. I plan to finish them tonight, hopefully.
1. Angaaray is pretty awesome. It was quite controversial when it came out back in 1932, and took Urdu literature hy storm. It’s a must read modern classic.
2. Ayako is…weird. in the most bizarre fashion, in Japanese, the word Ayako itself is written with the root character for “odd”. It’s a Japanese comic and this isn’t Manga, that came out in 1972. Highly political, a satire of post WW2 Japan through the happenstance of an agrocentric family thats lost farm lands been in their family for 4 centuries dude to Japan’s agricultural reforms. Amidst this, the family patriarch blackmails his eldest son: lands in exchange for sex with his young wife. The son, the bastard that he is, agrees. And so Ayako is born.
3. A dream of red mansions is one of the four greatest Chinese literary classics. It’s a pretty fast read cause it’s like reading a political soap opera. Also the characters are incredibly dramatic.
Well, that’s been my day. What’s up with yours.
I am running away from reality, as fast as i could... 
Hello RB.Lovely to see you back. Not reading but organising my wardrobe and bookshelf are my priorities this long Easter Weekend. Happy Easter.
Happy Easter to you too. I am pleasantly tired today. You know the one you get after doing something productive? That. So that feels nice.
How goes the organizing. New stuff or putting things in place. Organizing is always nice and awesome to see/listen to.
Yes.That is where I am starting.Arrange the books I have piled up on my table to the bookshelf. Then I am going to start with the wardrobe.
Ah, have fun. I will be rearranging a bit tomorrow. After my big organization things have been quiet. 😅😅
I took the day off from uni, went to the beach just relaxed, played a lot of boardgames. Was fun!!!
woohoo sounds like a day well spent. our city is dogshit and my apartment is soft lockdown. so going out is no way recommended 😦 also….summer heat…
Yeah we are open here in my city. Worked to hard to get those 0 cases.
thats really awesome…
You know we are having a film festival thing, and I just booked my ticket for chungking express!!
Woohoo. Watch it and let me know how it goes 🙂
Nursing a cold. Working. Squeezing some time to write. Finishing a really badly conceived and written novel.
ayyo. take care C. lots of fluids and vitamins 🙂
what novel is this?? i am now sitting down to timepass – a.k.a watch stuff and read till dinner time…
Thanks RB!
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The title should have driven me away, but there were rave reviews from known reviewers, so I took this up
i saw the reviews as well. but somehow had this feeling that it wouldn’t be what they are all talking about. when one too many rave, remember that its a red flag 😀 free gyan 😀
Haha, duly noted
Glad to hear you are back in the groove 😍
Angaaray I am keen to read. Is it like Ismat Chughtai work?
Hehe yeah. It has a story from Ahmed Ali, the author of twilight in Delhi. It’s a lot like that. You will like this collection
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Welcome to semi normality if there is such a word 🤔 thx going to read the Ismat Chugtai and Japanese one as again semi self lockdowned and it hot out there
its so so so hot 😡
am back to reading actual books and not fan fiction or work documents
Hey RB👋
Glad to know you feel normal. Or some approximate of that.
I have yet to feel that way. Life has suddenly turned busy in ways I didn’t expect. I mean, it’s me.. I am lazy at best.
Is Angaaray a translated version? Or is it available only in Urdu?
hi, thanks, its good to have some sense of normalcy. angaaray am reading translated version.
Interesting book selection.
thanks
Angaaray seems interesting.