Ed. Magazine On My Bookshelf: Assistant Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ed.M. Posted May 13, 2011 By News editor Currently reading: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin. It’s a collection of interconnected short stories that move between New York and rural and urban Pakistan. First impressions: Fantastic. It’s an unconventional view on domestic life in Pakistan in a landowning family. Last great read: A book that I loved that comes to mind right now, as we’re snowed in, is Orhan Pamuk’s Snow. The book is about politics and religion in Turkey, and takes place in a snowcovered village. The writing is very evocative, and the images of trudging through snow stayed with me. Favorite spot to curl up with a good book: Most commonly, in bed! Ideally, [I would be] on a warm beach under an umbrella, with a full day and no schedule ahead of me. But that hasn’t happened in a while. Noneducation genre of choice: South Asian fiction. Also, my version of the trashy novel is what seems to be a new genre of “pop social science” — Freakonomics, Nurture Shock, and Malcolm Gladwell’s books. They simplify social science research into juicy tidbits of knowledge that are often counterintuitive. I like seeing how social science gets translated into information that nonacademics find interesting. Reading ritual: Because I read a lot when traveling, I often end up using tickets as bookmarks. I like to keep the bookmark in the book after finishing. When I come back to a book, often the ticket reminds me of where I was at the time and how that shaped my reaction to the book. Ed. Magazine Harvard EdCast: Understanding Baggy Pants Ed. Magazine De-Coding Youth Culture and School Success Ed. Magazine The magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Explore All Articles Related Articles News Askwith Forum Addresses Rising Inequality in Schools News A Wild Rose in Bloom EdCast The Diversity Bargain