In January, I read 3 prose books, 1 play, 5 comics, watched 13 movies (including 2 short films), and 2 seasons of television. The dearth of movies and tv are explicable – I have to be out of the house a lot these days, and I refuse to watch anything more involved than a YouTube video essay on my laptop or (god forbid) my phone. I would like to be reading more novels, though, and more difficult ones, if possible.
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Reading & Film Round-Up July-November
I’m doing this, as mentioned in the previous post, to wipe the slate clean for next year, and to have an accurate count of how much I read and watched this year.
To that end, some of these capsule reviews will be just a sentence or two, and some will be longer. On occasion, when I had written a longer note on something that I didn’t end up posting, I’ve flagged that.
Nevertheless, this is very long. I wouldn’t blame you for just skipping it. This one’s more for me than for you. Therefore, I won’t be sending this as a newsletter either, but I’ll link to it in the next one.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading
This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 23: Strive to Fail
It’s been an interesting week here in India. For one, Pune has been bombarded by torrential rains all of last week, which is usual after a cyclone hits the east coast of India, as Remal did at the end of May.
Things came to a head on Saturday, when Pune had the worst rainfall it’s seen in June since 1991. Several parts of Pune were flooded, a friend was stuck in traffic for four hours getting home, my parents’ house flooded (only a bit, thankfully), and a video went viral of a man floating down a busy road on a foam mattress.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 22: Things and Places
It’s been a nice week at Casa Bidikar.
I’ve finally started working out regularly again. I’d been waiting for my various chronic pains to recede enough, and I’d got myself a gym membership at the beginning of the month, but it took a while to find the bandwidth and motivation to start going regularly. My aim is to hit two functional training days and two cardio days per week minimum, and anything above that is gravy.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 20: Playfulness
The other day, I read Annie Mueller’s notes on the book Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse, and a couple of things stood out to me.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 19: Rest & Relaxation
It’s been a good week – light on work. I’ve been trying to cook at home more (the pandemic and intervening years got me far too used to ordering in), and that’s been going well.
Health-wise, I’m doing much better – no pain these days, though I’m diligent about continuing my physiotherapy-mandated exercises. It took me a few months, but I realised that my pain resurges precisely when I stop doing these, so I can’t be complacent just yet. But I’m back to actually typing these on the computer rather than dictating them or typing them on the phone.
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Reading & Film Round-Up Feb/March
I haven’t posted my usual weekly updates for a bit, but I like having a count of books, comics, movies and tv at the end of the year, so I’m going to catch up with some capsule reviews.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 03: Chronic
Chronic pain
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Books: Wild Blue Yonder, The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 01: Part 2 – Reviews for the Week
(This one’s coming to you late because someone – probably accidentally – reported my newsletter as malicious content or something, so I was locked out of sending new ones. Buttondown had to audit and then clear it. We’re back in business!)
As mentioned in Part 1, here’s my reviews for the week. If you prefer my personal rambles to these, you can just skip this one.
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