Updates: The second week of February, 2012

I completed Ants, Ghosts and Whispering Trees. I must thank the editors for bringing out the anthology - I promise to write a review soon. I hope to complete Nausea soon as well.

For the next three or four weeks to come I have decided to read something more pertinent such as:

• Classical Social Theory - Kenneth H. Tucker, Tr.
• Political Ideologies - Mathew Festenstien, Michael Kenny
• Economics - Paul Samuelson, William Nordhaus

All the three books are introductory treatise on the respective subjects, in the sense they contain what would typically be the curriculum of an university course. I have always perceived a gap in my knowledge of these areas. So I have decided to sort of plaster the holes.

Strictly speaking the books are all academic. But since they deal with themes which are far away from my principal vocation I would lax the criteria and include these to my list of non-academic books read in the year 2012. I have a target of reaching thirty books - which is actually a very modest target and I know many who read way more than thirty.

I also have sort of decided what to read after I am done with the above three books. I would like to read a travelogue first, followed by two novels and thereafter a book on neuroscience or medicine.