Recollecting My Childhood readings

Weekly magazines starting from Balarama, Misha (Soviet magazine), Poombata, Bobanum Moliyum. School & college syllabus books starting from Shakespeare stories, Dharmaraja, Marthandavarma, Indulekha, Charles Dickens, John Buchan...School poems of Ezhuthachan, Kunjan Nambyar, Ashaan, Vallathol, Ulloor, Vyloppilli Sreedharamenon, Sugathakumari, ONV, Chemmanam Chako, after school days, Madhusoodhanan Nair, Balachandran Chullikkad and N.K Desom.

Book Name: Aalahayude Penmakkal

Sara teachers book,that helped me to develop "a point of view" to write my first published book in Malayalam.

Book Name : Stories of E Santhosh Kumar

Narration of contradictions in simple method. True reflections of life...

Book Name : One Hundred Years of Solitude

Colossal. One of the best novels I have ever read in my life. I don't think, I should write anything more about it. There is a reason for that statement. When you get a chance to see, one of the those wonders in the world, you would love to talk and write lot about it. Then, you sense in the middle of your talk, the beauty of that wonder can not be lost in your own words...we need to realise it.

Book Name : Marupiravi By Sethu

Thank you for introducing the past, Muchrippattanam....a place where huge historical events sleep. Not dead, its just long sleep.

നീരൊഴുക്കുകൾക്ക് അവയുടേതായ നേരുകളുണ്ട്. നേരുകേടുകളും. ...അതിരില്ലാത്ത ജലരാശിയുടെ മഹാപ്രയാണത്തിൽ പുതിയ കരകൾ പിറക്കുന്നു. കടൽകൊണ്ടുവന്ന സമ്പത്ത് പുഴയെടുത്ത് പോയപ്പോൾ കരയാൻ ആരുമില്ലായിരുന്നു. ഒരു പ്രദേശമാകെ ഇല്ലാതാകുകയായിരുന്നു. പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ തീരത്തെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ തുറമുഖമായിരുന്ന മുചിരിപ്പട്ടണത്തിന്റെ കപ്പൽ ചാലുകളിൽ മണ്ണടിഞ്ഞു മുഖമടഞ്ഞു. മഹോദയപുരമെന്ന കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂർ മരവിപ്പിലായി. പടിഞ്ഞാറോട്ട് നീങ്ങി, ചെറിയൊരു അഴിമുഖം തുറന്നു വന്നു. ആ കൊച്ചാഴി പിന്നീട് കൊച്ചി തുറമുഖമായി...!!!

Book name : സൂസന്നയുടെ ഗ്രന്ഥപ്പുര

Fiction characters, writers, real characters...a story of library love.. .No No.. Its actually a book turned into library through stories.

Book Name : The alchemist

A poetic soul search, and where does it end...!! I think, I read this book first time in 2002 after a suggestion from my friend. Close to my heart. 

Book Name : The Danvinci Code

It is one of the book in the investigative thriller category I read after a gap of 10 years,probably in 2007. You may strongly disagree with certain christian symbols used in the book, from the context of history. I am not an expert in that area. But it is a fantastic fiction page turner.

Book Name : ആട് ജീവിതം (The Goat Life)

First book I read in Malayalam language after a gap of  10 to 12 years (2011-12) Reflections of painful human slavery situations....  You will never stop reading this book, until finished.

Book Name : Stories Vyshakan (കഥകൾ : വൈശാഖൻ )

The stories from wealth of experience....You want to travel in a long distance train ? Enjoy. 
One story I remember after a long time (may be after a gap of 6 years) from the book collection is something written with lot of sarcasm based on Gandhi's 3 Monkeys; feeling of a government officer, as an observer and the world moves on...!!!

The fact is each story is a station !!!

Book Name : മയ്യഴിപ്പുഴയുടെ തീരങ്ങളിൽ

Its historical (history of Mayyazhi) as well as beautiful narration of man-woman relationships with conflicting ideals and dual personality syndromes or dreams to achieve, what is called as modern in the context of colonial period; and then you see a internal conflict to reject the modern. A book you love to read multiple times for its beautiful flow,social and historical setting with narrative style.

Book Name : Stories of VB Jyothiraj

Flow of words into stories from fraction of second's thoughts and feelings. Amazing ability to use language that flows like rivers.

ഒരു നിമിഷത്തിലെയോ അതിനേക്കാൾ ചെറിയ ചെറു നിമിഷത്തിലെ ചിന്തയെയോ കഥകളാക്കുന്ന സാമർത്ഥ്യം. ഏറ്റവും നിലവാരമുള്ള  മനോഹരമായ ഒഴുക്കുള്ള ഭാഷ പ്രയോഗങ്ങൾ. 

Book Name : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

I bought this book sometime in 2018-19. I must say, at times I take this book to read and enjoy the language like sipping the honey drops. The use of language will excite you and to love this book like a secret lover. I still remember a page written in this book as seven reactions of a moment, about a characters feeling...all in split fraction of second...!!!  Another book that you may pick again to enjoy the application of language.