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Book review: The Circle by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers writes a book about how technology is stealing our souls and humanity is doomed. I bought it, read it, and it was terrible. The end. But seriously, it just wasn’t a good book. It’s almost a laudable attempt at some kind of near-future dystopic fiction but it falls really short. Its possible that…
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Book Review: Indian two-fer!
Since the Jaipur post is taking a little longer than I expected, it seems like a good time to share my thoughts on two very different books on India that I recently finished reading. One is In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by former journalist Edward Luce. The other is Where…
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Book review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Marisa and I have been reading a lot on the trip and we started thinking that book reviews might be a nice way to share a bit more of our experience with everyone. We both brought our kindles which has been a huge boon. I’m still on the fence when it comes to ‘real’ books…