Prasanta Behera Blog

A 780 page book but beautifully written. Once I started reading it, I could not stop it. This book is like the "Team of Rivals" or "1776" - it feels you are part of it - hard to put it down. This was my third book on Theodore Roosevelt. This book only covers until Roosevelt becomes President.  He is just an amazing personality. Instead of writing about the book or the President, I encourage all of you to read about him. America needs a person like him now, a naturalist and a person with strong morals. Some of the books I have read on American history are listed here .

Brook of Stevens Creek Biking alone in this narrow path in the wee hours of a summer day mind wonders like a banyan tree with pebbles of thought from yesterday. Sun rays play hide and seek in the curved path between the trees, the dew in golden grass shimmer with the early morning sunrise. The road is empty, the air is fresh the sound of the pulsating water over rocks and twigs mesh uphill I go catching my breath. I always think of the places far away mountains of Peru, fountains of Rome but the brook of Stevens creek is nearby the tall redwood trees glorify where I can be lost in thought between the sounds of the stream and the touch of wind. Let me take you to the brook to touch the golden grass to let the water flow thru your feet to let you oscillate between shade and rays to show you the pair of blue Jays to the golden leaves caressing the creek to the westerly winds hissing to the leaves. Let us go to the brook where I can be I you can you and re...

These are the books I have read in the last six months ... Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari. The "Sapiens" book was much better. Lab Girl - Hope Jahren Gene - Siddhartha Mukherje (*) How to be Alone: Essays - Jonathan Franzen Men without Women - Haruki Murakami (*) The happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin The Broken Wings - Khalil Gibran (*) Unshakable - Tony Robins The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day - David J. Hand (*) Tuesday with Morrie - Mitch Alboon (*) Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths (*) Whose Global Village? - Ramesh Srinivasan (did not finish) * are books I liked. Currently Reading: Desert - J.M.G Le Cezio    The Rise of Theodor Roosevelt - Edmund Morris (A father's day gift :-)