reading habit
Words With Roshan Ali
Each month, The Curious Reader will bring a short, snappy and fun interview with an author to give you a quick peek into their reading and writing habits. This week, Roshan Ali, author of Ib’s Endless Search For Satisfaction, tells us the word he’d like to stop using.
Which fictional character would you like to switch lives with?
Richie Rich.
An author you are envious of.
All those authors who have written numerous books.
A line that made you cry.
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust" from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. It gets me every time, and I have no idea why.
Another line that gets me is from Deceptions by Philip Larkin—"All the unhurried day/ Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives." The poem needs to be read to understand why.
A book you wish you’d written.
A better version of the one I’ve already written.
What is the one word you’d like to erase from your vocabulary?
Woke.
Books Releasing This Week
- No Rules Rules: Reed Hastings (CEO of Netflix) and Erin Meyer bring us the secrets behind the success of Netflix and show us how the company’s new-age strategies helped it become a streaming superpower. (August 1, 2020)
- Rodham: Imagine a world where Hillary did not accept Bill Clinton’s proposal of marriage. What would that have looked like? Curtis Sittenfeld’s profound and witty novel shows us such a world as she explores how women navigate the male-centric world of politics, and the trials they have to undergo to achieve their ambitions. (August 1, 2020)
- The Stray Cats Of Homs: In Eva Nour’s novel, Sami, a young boy in Syria, wants nothing more than his home and his beloved pets. Unfortunately, a war-torn Syria has no use for a child’s dreams. Forced to join the army, Sami realises that no cost is too high to keep his dream of a safe home alive. (August 1, 2020)
- The Inspector Of Strange And Unexplained Deaths: Olivier Barde-Cabuçon’s novel begins when a body is found in Paris in 1759, and the Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths is called to investigate. As the bodies begin to pile up, the Inspector is forced to race against time to uncover deceit that has its roots in the court of King Louis XV. (August 1, 2020)
- RAW: There’s very little information available about India’s covert ops wing, RAW, and its agents in the public domain. This makes investigative journalist Yatish Yadav’s book an important one as he follows these real-life heroes to uncover the story of RAW, and the way it functions. (August 3, 2020)
It’s raining new releases this week, which made this shortlist a difficult (but highly fulfilling) one. We’re also looking forward to reading Reimagining Capitalism In A World On Fire, Wild Swims, and Women Don’t Owe You Pretty.
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