Musings. Et Al.
Stories and Opinions by Amit Gawande
Howdy! I am a software developer living & working in Pune, India. I am currently a product architect at Infosys – also a casual blogger, an amateur writer and a technology enthusiast.
Selected Posts for You
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Book Review: The Cuckoo's Calling
・2 minsThe novel is an entertaining read overall. Expected given that it is penned by an experienced story weaver. But then it also has those parts that make the experience average, at times. It starts out promisingly, Strike interested me. So did Robin (sigh!) and their case at hand. Mystery is woven, with the prose heavily studded in the initial part. Studded it felt, given I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It made me know the characters, though very few, more.
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Static Website: Benefits & Writing Process
・8 minsI have recently converted my blog to a website and, as I have already documented, I serve it as a static website. I have preferred this approach over a dynamic one that gets driven by a full-fledged blogging software or a publishing platform. Of course, these were not the only possible options. As is so well captured by Christopher Heng at his website1, the options are just too many.
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When No One Cares
・2 minsRick was following this foreign body across his own home for quite some time now. He did not like new people entering his den, rather he scorned all who did. The loneliness that the fate had stewed into his existence had made him finicky. For him, the life was far better when he was left alone. And Rick was always alone. He was alone when he first opened his eyes in an orphanage.
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Thoughts on The Martian
・3 minsThis novel has left me with a lot of thoughts. First off, I am totally confused on what I really feel about this. It is one of the most difficult books I found to review. So I just won’t. I do not think I would be able to word my thoughts well. Well, they are confused. So I would instead refer to one review that I completely concur with. Thomas has done a great job reviewing this at Goodreads.
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Book Review: Mort
・2 minsA great fun read with extremely witty subplots is how I remember this book. But then I think about it a bit and it is not how I felt throughout. It is extremely slow, occasionally (just) funny in the initial half. It does have that moment of laugh-out-loud humour in between – but slow nonetheless. So much so that I had lost the interest in between. It was as if jokes were written around characters (mostly caricatures) and thrown in.
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