====== The BookShelf ======

===== 2024 =====

  * Orotha, Kakkanadan (short, hemingway-esque form)
  * Requiem for the Living, Johny Miranda (queer? another world)
  * Litanies of the Dutch Battery, NS Madhavan. (ha!)
  * Jeevithathinte Pusthakam, Ramanunni.
  * Kalaapangalkkoru Grihapadam, Babu Bharadwaj (reading).
  * Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb (reading—almost done).
  * Smarana, VKN. (not as funny as payyan, could pick up the references)
  * No Longer Human, Ozamu Dazai. (dark, mishima-like, relatable)
  * A Chronicle of an Hour and Half, Saharu Kannanari. (shows you why perfect words do not make a perfect story)
  * Ways and Means, (quarter of it—tedious after a while. pretentious.)
  * Yellow Face, (quarter? boring, too genZ).
  * Kari, Amruta Patil (dark, edgy, emo, goth)
  * Asterios Polyp, David Mazzuchelli. (simple in its calculated precision)
  * Biriyani/Vaank/Patachonte Choru/Malayali Bhranthante Diary/Auttokarante Bharya
  * Malayalam Dalit Cherukathakal (anthology)
  * Ithramaathram, Kalppetta Narayanan Mash. (ought to be translated. sharp).
  * The Orders Were to Rape You, Meena Kandasamy. (smooth writing, rough subject)
  * When I Hit You, Meena Kandasamy. (Getting hold of the domestic violence narrative.)
  * Love in the Time of Cholera, Marques. (Wordy, funny, technically superb, light, but also heavy.)
  * A Sport and a Pastime, James Salter. (Short sentences, American construction)
  * The Brothers Karamazov :(
  * Slow Homecoming, Handke :(
  * Intermezzo, Sally Rooney (currentlyreading)

==== next in line =====

  * Something Happened, Steven Heller


==== sampling ====

  * on revision
  * writer's diet
  * dreyer's english
  * Chicago Uni book series on editing+writing



===== 2023 (Q3). Remembered. =====

  - meesha, s hareesh.
  - vegetarians only, skybaba
  - stories, chekhov
  - urayooral, devika
  - yellowface [skimmed]
  - stories, ardra
  - poems from rathri, ed.
  - poocha, neruda.
  - penjipsikalude jeevitham, yama.
  - milk fed
  - sailor who fell from grace with the sea, mishima.
  - a/amma, rekha raj
  - kitchen, banana yoshimoto

====== The MovieStack ======

===== 2024 =====


  * Like Someone in Love, Kiarostami.
  * The Myth of the American Sleepover, David Robert Mitchell.
  * Pain and Glory, Almodovar.
  * The Wild Pear Tree, Ceylan.
  * Petite Maman, Sciamma.
  * Medicine for Melancholy, Barry Jenkins.
  * Fallen Leaves, Kaurismaki.
  * Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, Chor Yuen.
  * Demolition, Vallee.
  * Premalu, Girish AD.
  * Deception, Desplechin (didn't finish)
  * The Plains, Easteal (didn't finish).
  * Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone (didn't finish).
  * Macbeth, Kurzel (didn't finish).
  * Crashing, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
  * Thund. (meh).
  * Winter Sleep, Ceylan.
  * About Dry Grasses, Ceylan.
  * Murina
  * Perfect Days
  * Bougainvillea, Malayalam.
  * Rush Hour