It's been a very, very, very good two days.

Yesterday, I received a few packages that made Thursday the best day of the week till then. I'd gotten issue #10 of Crimewave Magazine, a UK crime fiction publication I hope to one day have a story in. And I'd gotten a package from lizhand containing two of her books. The whole thing reminded me of the joys of ( Read more... )

There's this feeling I get whenever I leave a travel (off campus) that's like coming out from a tunnel. I won't say that life here is sheathed in darkness or that it's so incredibly unpleasant as to strip me completely of my bonheur. But there's this light that comes with the re-realization that life exists outside these walls, that the universe is ( Read more... )

A Problem from Hell" - America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

Root Causes of Terrorism - Myths, reality and ways forward Edited by Tore Bjorgo

Martyrs' Crossing by Amy Wilentz

A Season in Bethlehem - Unholy War in a Sacred Place by Joshua Hammer

All at the same time...

Must start soon...

Chechnya Diary - A War Correspondent's Story ( Read more... )