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Trying to tackle a book or movie review I find myself daunted by the task. The scope is too broad, the assignment too vague.
Where do I begin? More importantly, where do I end?

Do I give a plot summary? From what perspective do I examine it? Do I try to cover every aspect of it?

And then the realization that I enjoy writing about books or movies in the context of a question, or an issue. A habit picked up from writing far too many papers written at University I suppose.

When dealing with a question I can see where to start, what to cover, how to involve the entire piece, and where to end. And so that is the way I will be dealing with "reviews" from now.

Which means that I am actively soliciting questions/issues around any of the books I profess to have read in the sidebar. And because I am nice to you all, I'll give some examples from within the blog:

• someone had asked what the point was of Lost in Translation (well, in a roundabout way)


• the complex cultural and societal structure of Sri Lanka as response to its media prominence after the tsunami


• someone had expressed concern about the authenticity of Reading Lolita in Tehran, and other works of that type