Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy 2

"She loved Anna, but she enjoyed seeing that she too had her weaknesses."

What a sharp insight on human nature!

Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy 1

The connection between all the forces of nature is felt instinctively....

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry 1

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry 3

For some reason, I am reading this book with a sense of dread. It's like I am waiting for something horrible to happen... for human nature to fail in the light of what happens in the situations he's described.

I've always been a believer in the inherent goodness of human nature. That's why I am really hoping that it will shine through, despite the depths of despair that the situations bring. For whatever he has described are very real conditions of human living.

Mistry's built this sense of tension well. And I can't help but keep reading.

So here I go again to read, thinking, "que sera sera".

Monday, 23 March 2015

A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry 2

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

On Readfulness

This blog, to me, is about putting together my thoughts on books I read and quotes from them.