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Old 04-02-2019, 05:02 AM   #84
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I don't have a particular number in mind as a target, but I do aim to alternate between fiction and non-fiction whenever I read. Mostly I read two books a month; sometimes I start a third, but I don't finish it in the same month.

This March I read:

Fiction: Hanif Kureishi's short story collection titled "Love In a Blue Time." Kureishi has always been keen on the underside of London and Britain. His Britain is not a peaceful multicultural haven. It is a place wrestling with problems that we don't really associate with Britain: unemployment, vandalism, anti-immigration impulses, and more. At the same time, he also never fails to deal with the underside of the human condition. Love and living, in Kureishi's works, are not all-redemptive; they are ugly, painful, and tinged with a lot of despair. It's not a sad read, just a very truthful one.

Non-Fiction: Been reading "Introduction to Physical Anthropology" since last month. I don't buy biological determinism, and there's a lot of that in physical anthro., but the book gives me enough to speculate.
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