Atypical Wanderer

13 April 2018. The day I finished 'Walking the Nile'. It took me about two and a half months to read the whole book (yes, I'm a slow reader). The time I spent was incomparable to around nine months it took Levison to finish his walk from the source of the great Nile to the end of it. It was quite an easy read for me despite finding it a little bit challenging to imagine the kind of things he saw during his walk, the kind of people he met, the adrenaline rush he must have felt seeing his friend dying from the unforgiving heat of the desert. Of all these, to imagine the direction of the Nile that sometimes bends towards the north or any other directions and when the river divides itself into the Blue Nile and the White Nile pose an amazing challenge itself. The unfolding of various issues happening across Africa gave me new knowledge to the parts of the world that didn't really intrigue me to find out more about it before out of my sheer ignorance.   As some of...

Just finished this a few days ago. For the third time! For the third time!! I can’t really tell you how hard it is for a book to keep me revisiting them. When reading this, I kept on salivating as I waited for its revelations on why people don’t really read anymore or why I read much lesser now compared to when I was seven to twelve. Most of the truths were not shocking at all but the fact that someone wrote them on pieces of paper and made them into a book fascinated me in a way; “isn’t it cool that this French writer shared the same thought as me?”. I really recommend this book to people who used to binge reading on weekends before but hardly read one book a year anymore- just to have the pleasure of agreeing or disagreeing with the author on the “whys” reading doesn’t excite them now as before -, to parents on how to introduce reading to their curious young children, to teachers that have to deal with a class of students that constantly and, almost without fail, with unit...