Happy New Year! I think that when you’re a literary academic, it’s a given that your job involves reading. A lot of reading. Not just monographs, and collections, and philosophical treatises. You read multiple dissertations as supervisor, and as examiner. What this means is that your reading for the year will likely be 80% for … Continue reading A Survey of my 2025 Reading Habit: Returning from a Reading Block
For the past few years (since the pandemic began, really) my reading has not been the same. I used to average 60-80 books read per year even with a busy schedule but then other things took my time. For one, my supervision/teaching load increased and other factors included returning to formal music-learning and composing, language … Continue reading Notes from the Bibliotheca 18/11/2025
It’s the day after Deepavali and I’ve maximised the three-day weekend by reading up a storm; mostly because I’ve also been nursing some extreme fatigue so reading in bed seemed to be about the only productive thing I was capable of achieving during this period. This also means I managed to finish reading three books … Continue reading Notes From the Bibliotheca 21/10/2025
It’s Malaysia Day and also Pythagorean Triple Square Day (btw this only works if you count the date in the American Way: 09/16/25)! On this auspicious occasion (and the not so auspicious occasion of the very sad demise of Robert Redford), I am posting my reading updates! This is the last day of a four-day … Continue reading Notes from the Bibliotheca 16/09/2025
The urge not to post until I’d finished reading a few more books was strong but I think it’s more important to be fairly more consistent about posting these things. Besides, my brain needs a break from the academic work I’ve been doing this weekend. I’ve been pretty overwhelmed with work, personal and health matters … Continue reading Notes from the Bibliotheca 10/08/2025
I’ve been reading more lately mostly because I’ve been in and out of clinics and ER over the past few months (foot procedure and post-procedure-related stuff). This necessitated a lot of reading and only the Murderbot novellas would do, apparently. But I also managed to finish reading (finally) Helen Oyeyemi’s Peaces after over a year. … Continue reading Notes from the Bibliotheca 29/06/2025
I didn’t mean to go for so long without updating this blog! I’ve read a few things but not as much as I would have liked because of work, life and music practice. A lot of the things I’ve been reading have been related to various articles I’m either writing as sole author or as … Continue reading Notes from the Bibliotheca 28/04/2025
This is a blog post about The Rings of Power Seasons 1 and 2. It contains spoilers. My rewatch of Alloyed (season 1) over the weekend brought some thoughts about the idea of an alloy as a metaphor for the ways in which characters were manipulated by Sauron in the series. In episode one of … Continue reading Postal Modern Theatrette 15/10/2024: (Im)Purities
I’m actually doing a whole lot of things this weekend but I have so many The Rings of Powers thoughts in my head that I thought I’d put at least one down here. And that made me reconsider how I am using this blog. I feel occasional lists of what I am reading is going … Continue reading Brief Housekeeping Notes