false 47 505 249 true 5627088 read 0 true 1360643 currently-reading 114 true 1360642 to-read 118 true 3468978 grew-up-on--- 14 true 3468990 son-s-library 9 true 3468983 self-help-category 1 true 3468980 technical-shelf 77 false 5127707 owned 12 false 6831586 pulitzer 7 false 5128948 ebook 2 false 4939141 hard-to-find 2 false 5058096 author-signed <![CDATA[Sowmya added 'Norwegian Wood']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72245264 to: Norwegian Wood (Paperback) by Haruki Murakami
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There is so much of sadness and mystery surrounding any suicide, and when it happens to some of your closest friends, again and again well...how does Toru handle it?
It's true, there are people who attract all the crazies ONLY just like Toru Wattanabe. Such people are called the 'common grounding factor'. The characters in Norwegian Wood if not just cuckoo seem to be the sort that color well outside the line and then display the end result with pride. Murakami seems to enjoy writing about such people who spill out from his imaginary world into ours through some spectacular literature.
This book is not as heavy in the soul transferring or the meshing of personalities as other Murakami books. A light reading but nonetheless excellent.






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]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Sowmya]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/252516-lists Sowmya made a comment in the Indian Readers group:

Nice pics..I've not read anything by Srividya though. Will add that to my list. ]]> <![CDATA[Sowmya is on page 277 of Norwegian Wood ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72245264 Sowmya is on page 277 of 389 of Norwegian Wood ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Sowmya]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72245264 Sowmya's review of Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami

Oh put it down after 10 pages. Got busy elsewhere. (something keeps interfering with my affair with Murakami)
:-) ]]> <![CDATA[new comment from Sowmya]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/118148-apparently-the-bbc-reckons-most-people-will-have-only-read-6-of-the-100 Sowmya made a comment in the The Next Best Book Club group:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x(3of the total)*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee*
6 The Bible *
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman*
10 Great Epectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy *
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks *
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger *
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot*
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald*
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens *
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh*
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame*
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma - Jane Austen *
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres *
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving*
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins*
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood*
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan *
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert *
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen *
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon x *
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon *
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt *
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Aleandre Dumas*
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy*
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding *
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville *
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson *
75 Ulysses - James Joyce *
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath *
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome*
78 Germinal - Emile Zola*
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray*
80 Possession - AS Byatt*
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert *
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton*
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery *
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams*
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute*
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl*
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
]]> <![CDATA[Sowmya added 'A Widow for One Year']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79614772 A Widow for One Year (Paperback) by John Irving
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]]> <![CDATA[Sowmya added 'Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79614777 Last Night in Twisted River: A Novel (Hardcover) by John Irving
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]]> <![CDATA[Sowmya made a comment on the poll We have a tie between two books for the December read. Please vote for the one you'd like to read.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/26613-we-have-a-tie-between-two-books-for-the-december-read-please-vote-for Sowmya made a comment on the poll We have a tie between two books for the December read. Please vote for the one you'd like to read.

Allison wrote: "I really don't care one way or the other except I just finished two of John Irving's books and I don't know if I am ready for a 3rd so soon. But either way, I am good. Thanks"

Same here! Isn't that unusual? I finished the '158 pound marriage' and 'Until I find you'. ]]> <![CDATA[Sowmya voted on a poll]]> http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/26613-we-have-a-tie-between-two-books-for-the-december-read-please-vote-for Sowmya voted on the poll: We have a tie between two books for the December read. Please vote for the one you'd like to read.
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