Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is the last contemporary work we're reading for the South Asian Literature class (it's Bhagavad Gita after this), and is the third of Rushdie's novels that I've read. Leaping straight to the conclusion here: like the other two, this book left me pleased, but not enthralled. It does not make me want to ( Read more... )

Ah, where is the reading time of yesteryear??  I make this entry to record my completion, more than two weeks ago, of Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories.  It is, embarrassingly, only my sixth completed title for the year.  I finished it on a vacation to Charleston, South Carolina, during which I mostly read a student novel ( ( Read more... )