Books, Caffeine & Everything in Between

A personal notebook of books, thoughts, experiences and whatever else catches my attention.

  • A rant !! What’s the point?

    A rant !! What’s the point?

    I’m fed up with this. Exhausted. No way out. The only way out appears to be so far away that it seems almost impossible to reach. I can’t be myself and I can’t not be myself. How do I live any further? How do I change? Or do I change? What’s the point? For whom?…

  • My version of Ray Bradbury challenge

    My version of Ray Bradbury challenge

    My fourth attempt to kickstart the Ray Bradbury challenge. My customized version. Just to read books consistently. I have tried starting it three times before and eventually fell down the wagon. Being a perfectionist is a pain. It’s the ‘all-in-or-nothing’ attitude that doesn’t let me continue after a couple of hiccups. I started with one…

  • Seething in silence

    Seething in silence

    I have become an angry person in the recent past. If I were young, I could be an angry young man who’s upset with the society. If I were old, i could be a responsible senior citizen who’s angry at where the world is going. But I’m an energy deficit middle aged man, well fast…

  • Kindle + KUAL + Instapaper = Bliss !!

    Kindle + KUAL + Instapaper = Bliss !!

    I have been using modded Kindle for quite sometime and I have been enjoying the customisations of KoReader. The only concern is that sometimes too much customisation options could be overwhelming. At times, as a consumer, we can tell if we like or dislike this design/view/approach, but we cannot identify what/why we like a specific…

  • Delayed not Defeated !!

    Delayed not Defeated !!

    A cringe title, but it suits my current frustration. Frustration, this is what Gemini suggested for what I am feeling right now. When I created this domain name for this blog-site, I set out to translate Tamil short stories into English, not because it’s the only meaningful writing I can ever attempt, not for non-Tamil…