Orhan Pamuk

Does the above name ring a bell? For me, it didn't. Shows how much out-of-date I am on current affairs. What happened to my aspirations for a career in the civil services. :(

Actually I first came across Orhan Pamuk's name on Madura's post about Appreciation of Art. Later I came across the name when it was mentioned by Manasi on her blog. The news (to me) is (or rather, was) that he had won the Nobel prize for literature in 2006, for his book, My Name is Red. Again, what happened to my aspirations of winning the Nobel prize? :( Manasi has an excellent review of the book in her post - Black, White and Shades of Red. Here is a review of another book by Manasi in her post Of Tears and Fiction. Sometimes I feel that I ought to have studied literature. *sigh*

Literary lists, The Potter Saga Prophecies and so on...

I've always kept my distance from the literary types, being of the view that they would be dreadful bores, and would talk in some abstruse language, that I wouldn't understand. But The Brownie undid my misconception - but then for every rule there is an exception, and as they say, the exception proves the rule. See how poor my understanding of the English language is. :(

Recently I was pleasantly surprised to read Manasi, another literature student from that eminent institution - The Star of The Sea college. Far from being boring, her posts were quite engaging with their conversational style.

She discusses the Times list of 100 greatest books of the century in her post - Listlessness.

And the post, The Prophet Speaks, in which she prophecies the possible turns the final Harry Potter book would take, is ever so delectable. From that post I was surprised to know that there are people, who write books (and make money) on what will happen in HP7!

Happy weekend. :)