Not all count towards the List I guess ...
1) The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
2) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
3) The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
4) The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies
5) Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
6) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
7) Why We Run: A Natural History - Bernd Heinrich
8) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Progress
9) The Conference of the Birds - Farid Ud-din Attar
--> This book is a 2008 Xmas present from Peilian, a present that will remain in our conversation for quite some time esp if I do not finish reading it. Haiz, it is not easy to plow through. In 2010, I shall ... ;-)
10) Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Books for 2009
The target for 2009 is to read 10 GOOD books on top of other daily readings and squash readings etc. I guess rereading of certain books would be counted towards the ten.
I have only settled on a few titles and the rest could be added as the year goes by. Here's the list and I welcome comments on whether the books should be counted towards my list, as well as suggestions on the other titles.
1) Catch-22
2) The Conference of the Birds
3) The Odyssey
4) The Illiad
5) Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers & their 1,000 Greatest Works
6) Guns, Germs and Steel
After I read each book, I will do a short entry here. Not so much a review, since I am not much of a critic, but just whatever I feel like writing then.
Your task, my dear readers, is to bug me when you see no new entries for more than 6 weeks. 12 months divided by 10 ... I guess that is about the time I have for each book. =)
I have only settled on a few titles and the rest could be added as the year goes by. Here's the list and I welcome comments on whether the books should be counted towards my list, as well as suggestions on the other titles.
1) Catch-22
2) The Conference of the Birds
3) The Odyssey
4) The Illiad
5) Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers & their 1,000 Greatest Works
6) Guns, Germs and Steel
After I read each book, I will do a short entry here. Not so much a review, since I am not much of a critic, but just whatever I feel like writing then.
Your task, my dear readers, is to bug me when you see no new entries for more than 6 weeks. 12 months divided by 10 ... I guess that is about the time I have for each book. =)
Why Cyperus Papyrus?
Haha. Doesn't it sound fun to chant? Try it! Cyperus Papyrus, Cyperus Papyrus, Cyperus Papyrus, Cyperus Papyrus ... ...
Well, when I played this game called The Pharaoh many years back (it was first released on 31 Oct 1999 and I have never completed it), there were reed fields which men could harvest for processing into papyrus paper. From there, I could have scribes and build schools and libraries to educate my people.
Cyperus Papyrus is paper reed, which is most famously used for making papyrus paper by the Ancient Egyptians. I guess it is one source which great books, poems, history, knowledge etc has been captured on.
And thus my title of my blog ... Cyperus Papyrus!
Well, when I played this game called The Pharaoh many years back (it was first released on 31 Oct 1999 and I have never completed it), there were reed fields which men could harvest for processing into papyrus paper. From there, I could have scribes and build schools and libraries to educate my people.
Cyperus Papyrus is paper reed, which is most famously used for making papyrus paper by the Ancient Egyptians. I guess it is one source which great books, poems, history, knowledge etc has been captured on.
And thus my title of my blog ... Cyperus Papyrus!
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