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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
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