Usha K R recently visited KIS for the annual writers workshop. The library then acquired 2 of her novels, The Chosen and A Girl and a River. We got to tape Usha talking briefly about her authorship. Watch it below.

Author Usha K R is talking about her writing .

New books on contemporary India

Books mentioned in this video are:

• India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
• India and the Global Financial Crisis by Y. V. Reddy
• Being Indian by Pavan K Varma
• India's new capitalists by Harish Damodaran
• India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
• Crossing the Rubicon by C Raja Mohan

The enterprise of knowledge, by John L Tomkinson

The Enterprise of knowledge by John L Tomkinson from Anna Kagedal on Vimeo.

Hear what Bryan Plymale has to say about this book that we recently got for the HS library.

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Book review - Peeps by Scott Westerfeld from Anna Kagedal on Vimeo.

In this video I am talking about Peeps by Scott Westerfeld. The Sequel The last days is also mentioned.

You can really hear that I am in a school, all though I tried to hide from the most public spaces this time. But at one point the bell rings. School it is.

Introducing the book review on video

Introduction to book blog from Anna Kagedal on Vimeo.

In this video clip, I talk about the book blog and the video reviews in general and recommend this book: A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini