reading.

i was an avid reader, inculcated this habit in my schooldays. i used to be the kid that read on the bus ride to & from school; i was that dedicated. but unfortunately, i didn’t keep at it and eventually paused reading for a bit around 12th grade well into my college years. i picked it up back again during covid but wasn’t very committed to it. but then i rekindled this old flame, so as a promise to myself, i consciously committed to it last year and have been very regular at it. i owe a large part of re-building this habit to blossoms, a very old bookstore in bangalore.

as part of that commitment, i’ve been tracking the books i’m reading. next thing to do would be to draft book summaries, reviews. oh also, i started a bookclub at IG - although it turned out to be a safe space to talk about work, mental health, lifestyle, entrepreneurship, parenting for my colleagues, but that’s okay :)

below are the books i’ve read since last year:

  1. Zero to One
  2. Almond
  3. A Man Called Ove
  4. all about love
  5. Old Man and the Sea
  6. Animal Farm
  7. The Book Thief
  8. The Mom Test
  9. Earthlings
  10. really good, actually
  11. Less
  12. Five People You Meet in Heaven
  13. Quarterlife: Search of Meaning in Early Adulthood
  14. Lessons in Chemistry
  15. Convenience Store Woman
  16. Letters to a Young Poet
  17. Crying in H Mart
  18. The Philosophy of the Alpaca
  19. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  20. Continuous Discovery Habits
  21. Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
  22. Super Freakonomics
  23. Slaughterhouse Five
  24. Welcome to Paradise
  25. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
  26. Anxious People
  27. The Creative Act
  28. Cracking the PM Interview
  29. In Other Words
  30. Just Kids
  31. Visual MBA
  32. Before the Coffee Gets Cold
  33. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar
  34. Notes from Underground
  35. The Woman Destroyed
  36. Yellowface
  37. The Authenticity Project
  38. The Book of Disquiet
  39. Good Omens
  40. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  41. Catalyst
  42. The Vegetarian
  43. My Brilliant Friend
  44. Mythos
  45. The Story of a New Name
  46. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  47. Notes on a Nervous Planet