What books do you want to read?
WordPress gave me this daily writing prompt. I just scrolled through them and found this amazing prompt. Every one who can’t think of anything else, but books, when first asked for the things you do in your leisure time, can relate with the unending to be read list. Yes! So, my to be read list contains books from English as well as Thamizh.
Since, I have been posting only reviews of English books, I am going to share with the list of the same in my sinful list. Don’t be scared. I will give you a list of just 5 books from it. (I know a day won’t be enough if I am going to list them all, let alone read them all in my limited lifetime).
Ahem.. not me going through the Goodreads want to Read list…
- This changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
I came across this book in Bill Gates reading blog. Let me tell you the story why I landed in that page. I was trying to read his book How to avoid a climate disaster. Before, you go to my blog and find its review, I confess, I am guilty of not being able to read the book completely. It was very interesting at first, coming to know all the things I never knew, and never knew that I never knew. But, later on, it became heavy and it deviated to show each of the element’s effect, rather than adhering to the title, which I was searching for.
Ok, coming back… this book written by Naomi Klein, what piqued my interest was the description of the book.
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism.
Here I am, trying to read this book on climate and now I hear this. It’s very hard to turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to this. So it is in my reading list and I am yet to discover what shocking truth I had to know.
2. Neanderthal Man: In search of lost genomes
The author Svante Pääbo (Thank goodness, I am writing a blog; I need not worry about the pronounication of his name) won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2022. The mild curiosity in knowing for what he was awarded landed me in a page, revealing this book.
I always believe there is not a thing in this world that anyone can’t understand. If said in the right manner, it will serve its purpose. And my love for books came in the same way. If I stumble upon something and find it difficult to understand, I pick a book, spend time with it, and there I go, from a beginner to a better beginner.
As far as I have seen the Nobel Prize site, I believe his research was with the ancient genomes with regards to human evolution and the book shed some light over it.
3. Any book of Joan Didion
Joan Didion’s site says she is a journalist, novelist, memoirist, essayist, and screenwriter. I have come across some of her memoirs in the social media. And I love how the readers pointed out the subtlety, tenderness and how provocative thoughts were put forward with a bundle of words that everyone have in their disposal.
I am very excited to read any one of her books. Do let me know if there is anything in particular I should read of her works.
4. Good Economics for Hard Times
This book is again written by Nobel Prize winners. The couple had won their Nobel Prize for Economics in 2019.
This book deals with how Economics plays a crucial role in the major crisis and events that happen often around the world. Be it, immigration, technological advancement or climate crisis, there is nothing that occurs without the involvement of the markets and the underlying sciences. Hence, this is in my reading list with high expectations. I will let you know if it all worked out good 😉
5. A man called Ove
By this time, if you have lost interest that the list didn’t have any fictional works; Oh please don’t go, there is one left.
A grumpy old man whose solitude gets disturbed by a young family next door.
Don’t you think this is enough to get interested on this book ?
So, I have always loved my solitude and I have seen a couple of wholesome movies whereby lives of old people change when there is a sudden interaction with someone new and I have loved them all. They are mild and they rattle your heart with its amazing tenderness. No wonder, this book is on my list.
Coming to the end of my limited list, I am really interested to know what are all in your list. Let me know 😉
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