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Books Read Recently

This was typed 3 weeks ago, forgot to post it :)

I am blogging this post using the limited facilities available at our training facility at Hirandani. Let me restart my blogging by first talking about the books I read recently.
After reading "Fooled By Randomness", I read 2 pretty boring books - "The Bed of Procrustes" and "Dork". The first one was about aphorims and latter one about a fictional story of an MBA grad who works at a consulting firm. Then I read one of the masterpiece of crime novels, "The Godfather". I dont think I have to say much about this great book, this will be up there in my all time favourite books. Once I read "The Godfather", I don't what came to my mind, but I wanted to read "Shriman Yogi". Probably it was one of the discussions I had with one of my ICICI colleague regarding Marathi Books. Initially, I thought I might get it from some library, but then thought that may be it is a book about the life of a person who will inspire me at any point in my life. So decided to buy the book. As always, flipkart came to the rescue :) The book gives the complete account of Shivaji Maharaj's life. My respect for the great leader has increased multifold after this book.
Currently reading the book "I too had a love story" by Ravinder Singh.

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