#NonFicNov Week 1: Year in Nonfiction

The last year was the first time I participated in such a wide-reaching event. I left with some great recommendations, some greats blogs as well as interesting interactions. It left me wanting to be prepared to jump right in the next year. Given the way the year has been going, I am just glad to…

We Know It When We See It by Richard Masland

It was the tagline that got me interested in reading this book. I took an elective in my undergrad, which focused on Neural Networking, and I remember loving the course and for once taking great notes( despite not being able to recollect most of the content now). I leant it to a junior immediately after…

Radical Spirits by Nandini Patwardhan

I have been so fidgety the last week or two that I read one chapter each of a lot more books than I usually read simultaneously. I kept it up, hoping to break the barrier at some point and start finishing them (one at a time). As most other ardent readers would acknowledge, the boost…

Tigers by Paula Hammond

As the title rightly proclaims, it is a book of stunning photographs. There are enough of them to hold anyone in awe. Every time I see images like this, I wonder how the earliest people who wanted to study them felt the need to drain the life out of its eyes. This is a pretty…

The Bullet in the Pawpaw by Kim Hope

I have been lucky to find a lot more non-fiction to read this year than in previous years. I was invited to view this particular book. My review, however, is solely based on my reading experience. This is the story of a woman who was just going through life, who suddenly found a calling and…

Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

This is an intense and personal collection of comic strips. There is nothing remotely 'HaHa funny' about them. Most of the ones I follow on social media do have personal incidents influencing their collections, but this one was of a slightly different ilk. I had seen one or two in passing forwards somewhere, that was…

Hidden Places by Sarah Baxter

It is a little hard to review books like this. One prominent reason in my mind is that by highlighting lesser travelled locations aren't we in the danger of losing that place to the rising tide of travellers/visitors? Once I get past that thought and see each individual site mentioned here, I could move on…

18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb

This book is available for request for another three days on NetGalley. I usually find it hard to read my way through non-fiction in a few days. It takes time and mental investment to keep myself going even if I find the content inordinately interesting. This was probably one of the few books where I…