Just finished reading
Randidangazhi at long last. It has a happier ending than either my dad or I was expecting. I'm not sure what I'll do next.
My dad suggested that I read
Verukal by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, but I think that's longer than
Randidangazhi, so I'm thinking of maybe taking a break from Malayalam novels for a while and maybe reading Zhao Ziyang's autobiography
改革历程 in Traditional Chinese instead. And Malayattoor is kind of an asshole anyway.
I could read
Payyan Kathakal alongside
改革历程. Or I could just read book III of
Practical Chinese Reader, idk.
(The latest book I have in that series is book V, which is made up entirely of original short stories, each followed by a vocabulary list entirely in Mandarin Chinese, including pinyin for each new term). Or I could read something else altogether in Malayalam, something totally unexpected like, what was that one book called...
Kadalasupookkal by K. M. Mathew, better known by his pen name, Ekalavyan. In the end, I suspect I'll end up reading another Malayalam novel anyway.