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Because Koenraad Elst has written articles where has he given a more nuanced view about current affairs in India he has gained access to groups and sources that remained closed to many other researchers. In this book he mostly describes the interaction between Hinduism and Christianity. And also how the media gives a one-sided view of affairs that in some cases can even be called misdirection.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Micheal Kimmel

Next: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

'Gray Mountain' by John Grisham.
Also 'The Girl in the Spiders Web' by David Lagercrantz. Confusingly, this is the fourth book in the 'Millennium' trilogy, though of course the original author, Stieg Larrson is dead. I think Lagercrantz may have been supplied with Larrsons notes. He did a fantastic job with them too, the feel and 'voice' of the book is just the same. My favourite fictional Aspie, Lisbeth Salander is totally recognisable.

Just finished this:



316 pages, read from cover to cover in less than 4 hours... The power of espresso compelled me...

Anyway, I'm wondering if I should read up on Confucianism as well to get a deeper understanding of Chinese history and culture...

'Omens', by Kelley Armstrong.

'SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP: Inside the SQL Server 2014 Hekaton Engine', by Kalen Delaney

'Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte', by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoevsky.
Classic is something that every body wants to have read but nobody wants to read)))

A little light reading has just arrived. Bizarrely the whole first half of the book has been printed upside down, so I will need to read it right to left to start with. I wondered why it was so cheap...

Just finished this...



Started on it last weekend, but read the remaining 388 pages today. Unsurprisingly, my head now hurts...

I can't really recommend it as an introduction to Hinduism, as it contains too many esoteric subjects and lacks a general overview of the central aspects of Hindu religious thought... One would think that a book labeling itself a "companion" to Hinduism would have quite a lot to say about karma, dharma and atman... But it doesn't...

However, the book's apparent incoherence is partly due to the fact that Hinduism *itself* is incoherent. It really doesn't make all that much sense to see Hinduism as *one* religion... This view appears to be (mostly) the product of Western (British) misconceptions from the late 18th century which became revitalized with more recent Hindu nationalist movements starting from the early 20th century.

Just finished:

Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, which was not bad to read, and very interesting to discuss.

The Raven King, by Maggie Steifvater, which is the last book in a quartet about friendship and ancient Welsh kings and which I love.

Currently reading:

Mathematical Mysteries, by Calvin Clawson, which is mostly fun math stuff and occasionally hilariously dated. It was written in the early or mid nineties, and keeps making suggestions about using the World Wide Web to access the Internet and stuff like that. The math stuff is really interesting though.