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July 2019 Updates

July’s been a funny month. In many ways, it feels less like the middle of the year and more like the start of a year. I don’t know why I feel this way, perhaps it’s because after a long time I met up with old, old friends – people who I started my career with,…

June 2019 Updates

I don’t know quite what to say about June. After the excitement of May, June was a quiet month, a boring month. So, this is going to be a short monthly update. I didn’t read all that much in June. I guess I was feeling a bit down, and the only books I finished were…

Post-makeover

February 2019 Recap

February has been a mellow sort of month. There was a lot of work at office, and I was neck deep in work, lots of late night Slack conversations, calls, and meetings. I can already see that late nights are going to be the dominating theme of 2019. That said, although there’s a lot of…

Peony in Love

Peony in Love is an example of awe-inspiring yet utterly readable historical fiction/mythology. It is based in 16-17th century China just after the downfall of the Ming dynasty after their defeat by the Manchu invaders. On the face of it, Peony in Love is about the 16-year-old heroine Peony who falls in love with a…