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The Mountbattens, Nehru, Ghandi are all larger than life characters in Alex Von Tunzelmann's Indian Summer.Reads like the very best fiction!

10 Rock Star Bios You Shouldn't Bother Reading huff.to/tynXYQ via HuffPost

Reading another big fat bestsellerHaruki Murakamis 1Q84 & loving it.Delighted to shed my absurd literary snobbery.Immersed in his world!

I see lots of folks reading missed classics in the new year.Our 24-yr-old book club read only classics for the 1st 10 years...it was divine.

SF fiction bestseller list vs the national list: we rock!!!: sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl…

Who's Snooping Around Bookstores? Lots of People huff.to/sBMOPn via HuffPost

Devouring Penelope Livelys latest compulsively readable How It All Began.What is it that's so compelling about these Brits of a certain age?

Those wild and crazy books: youtube.com/watch?v=SKVcQn…

The reference to the DaVinci Code in Penelope Lively's How It All Began are just hilarious. My literary snobbism is alive and well!

I might skip this: Lil Wayne to publish prison memoir gu.com/p/34ka5/tw via The Guardian

The 100 greatest non-fiction books gu.com/p/2qp6p/tw via The Guardian

Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forvers is an astonishging piece of reporting about life in a Mumbai slum.Gripping and unforgettable.

The way Indians see the US - Chtetan Bhagat's One Night at the Call Center. The other side of outsourcing - find out what they think of us!

Penelope Lively's moon Tiger is undoubtedly erudite, but for me not as enjoyanle as How It All Began. Probably I'm just superficial/

Alaa Al Aswanys revealing The Yacoubian Building tells of political corruption, sexual repression &religious extremism, in Egypt today.

Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch is the best book I've read in a long time.Don't ket the length deter you!

Reading Jonathan Miles' Want Not, blurbed by Dave Eggers in the NYT. Wow! This guy can write.Compelling characters & social message too!

Headed to NYC soon and excited to stay at my fave NY hotel across from MOMA and a block from the BEST halal food truck WarwickNewYorkHotel

#notokay I was nine years old at a movie with friends and the man next to me grabbed my hand and used it to masturbate.