A strange disease seems to be affecting the blogosphere at the moment, or at least two blogs I am subscribed to (outside xanga) and another I check occasionally. It involves the writer suddenly shutting down their blog a…

I've almost, almost finished reading Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance. It's a slow burner of a book, and at times the quietness and subtlety of the prose almost lost my attention. But it's actually relentlessly brutal, p…