Musings of an Idiot

A Thousand Splendid Suns

I finished reading both the books that I was reading. 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' is shocking, human and epic - all at the same time. Khalid Hosseini is a fantastic writer where the observations become poignant truths that hit home without batting a lid. The journey is incredible.

Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of short stories and each of them is different but similar at the same time. The stories are lyrical and very observational at heart. There were so many times that I was laughing at what was happening within the stories and so many times that it felt that someone was standing there with a mirror in their hand reflecting things back as an immigrant from India. I think the themes are further amplified and written into a long form narrative in 'The Namesake' - a book that was made into a movie that I watched last year.

In the past month or so I have read more books than I have done in the previous 5 years prior. It is frightening to think but I have been here in NZ for 5 years now (well almost!!!) and time has flown by so quickly. It has been eventful all along - the struggles, the pains, the joys, the achievements, the failures - all snowballed into one big lump of time. It has taken me all these 5 years to start from nothing and just about stand up on my own 2 feet. I don't think this would have been possible without all the people who have been supportive and encouraging of the ways of this mad man.

Anyway I will sign off for now but not without a BIG SHOUT OUT for Lucas Young at Digitalus, who has completed the DVD authoring for the NTSC release of FIVE. Now it is a matter of getting the DVD cover and disc print finalized and then I will be mailing it off to the website through which the DVD will be available. More on that when time comes.

Till later,
Amit

Labels: Books, Five

posted by Amit @ 9:32 PM