Booker Hit List - Girish and Vimal (feat Syl and Srividya) Showing 751-800 of 1,017

[Girish, The Good cop]

Meg and Edwin are every couple on their bad days and every couple on their warm days..

[Ahtims]

Baap reh.... don't remember throwing things or physically hurting my husband even on my most bad days. Agreed I had to go hysterical a couple of times just to make sure of the boundary lines... :D..but at the most it was just screeching and stamping my feet. ^.^

[Girish, The Good cop]

IncRead wrote: "Baap reh.... don't remember throwing things or physically hurting my husband even on my most bad days. Agreed I had to go hysterical a couple of times just to make sure of the boundary lines... :D...."

Lol.. same here.. But still, I know quite a few couples even before marriage having ugly spats that became breaking things and dramatic!
Screeching and stamping feet huh? Someone else we should ask :P

[Ahtims]

That someone is thankfully not in GR... :D :D

[Girish, The Good cop]

Lol.. Yet another Booker successfully completed :) Thanks for the reco! We took a really old book that had only 435 reviews on Goodreads!

Next reco? Anybody?

[Ahtims]

Just saw you have added Hotel du Lac. Thought it was in my TBR too....
If its fine with you, we can BR that.... if not now, after a couple of weeks..

[Girish, The Good cop]

awesome! Hotel Du Lac it is :) Apr 1st week?

[Ahtims]

Yes... April first week sits well.with me. :)

[Girish, The Good cop]

Sure.
there are also a couple of books I plan to read this year. We'll plan them too if they interest you
1. Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
2. Children's Book - AS Byatt
3. Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
4. Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally
ofcourse Among others... :)

[Ahtims]

children's book in TBR. Count me in. .
Such a long journey. ...already over.
Rest - I have to check out. .

[Ahtims]

Are we reading any book soon?

[Girish, The Good cop]

Next week let us start Hotel du Lac as discussed earlier.

"In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses."

@Others: Please join in if interested.

PS: Sorry, total crazy phase at work.

[Ahtims]

No worries Girish. Do let know when you are relatively free. We may start then. I too totally forgot about Hotel Du Lac. Will start reading when you do. :)

[Ahtims]

Started just now. Somehow it was beckoning me and couldn't wait.
Beginning is slow and steady, seems to be like my type of book.

[Girish, The Good cop]

Starting today. Good to know it is your type of book since we have an almost 70% same rating on the books that matter :D

[Ahtims]

At 10%, liking it.
And yet... regarding books, 30% dissenting is a huge percentage, hence can't be sure. :P

[Girish, The Good cop]

At 1% found it too verbose for Sunday evening. will pick it up tomorrow :D

[Ahtims]

Finished Hotel du Lac a week ago. IT was an okay read, 3.5 to 4 starish. Not as great as I expected it to be, but no complaints as I love stories keenly observing human nature, where nothing really happens.

[Girish, The Good cop]

crawl reached 62%.. too much workload and this book is testing my patience.
hope something dramatic happens in the flashback.

[Ahtims]

Sorry to disappoint you. No dramatics in this one. :P

[Girish, The Good cop]

Finally managed to finish it. Can't help compare it with Holiday! Both books have a similar plot. While one was extremely observant, the other was really whiny.

Saw that you had liked the book.

[Ahtims]

I liked it, as much as I liked Holiday. I too was pondering upon the almost common theme.

[Girish, The Good cop]

I have the following 4 books lined up in Booker. Can BR any one from end of next week.

1. The Good Doctor - Nominee 2003
2. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Nominee 1972
3. The Children's Book - Nominee 2009
4. Eileen - Nominee 2016

Let me know if any of them interest you.

[Ahtims]

3 and 4 in my TBR.. rest will check and let you know by tomorrow.

[Girish, The Good cop]

@Shalini Decided which?

[Ahtims]

You decide between children's book and Eileen.... any one is fine with me.
And let me know when to start :)

[Girish, The Good cop]

Let's do Eileen then.. (smaller and sounds less daunting)

[Ahtims]

Even I was slightly in favor of Eileen. When?
Tomorrow onward?

[Girish, The Good cop]

let's start this weekend.. Hang woman going on in parallel..

[Ahtims]

Okay... Sunday onwards

[Ahtims]

Started Eileen..loving it so far.

[Girish, The Good cop]

will start tomorrow only.I guess..

[Ahtims]

Eileen
BLURB
A lonely young woman working in a boys’ prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction.

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.

This is the story of how I disappeared.



Following accolades

Man Booker Prize Nominee (2016), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2015), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)

[Ahtims]

Am at 35%... and it is an amazingly gruesome story, sometimes bordering on the really nauseating. Eileen doesn't leave a stone unturned to show us her true self. I am keen to know where Eileen will take us. if it continues like this, a definite 5 starrer from me... but I have doubts over your liking, Girish. :P

[Girish, The Good cop]

At 20% and I am seeing the gruesomeness. Prose at places makes you squirm (even for hard-nosed ppl). Did not get that from the blurb though.

Btw, the blurb you have shared reveals too much?

[Ahtims]

Didn't read it earlier. Now that I have, it seems like the summary of the book.

[Ahtims]

I am truncating it...

[Girish, The Good cop]

don't worry.. didn't read it completely once I realised it was longer than what I had read :D
hope it didn't spoil anything for you!

[Ahtims]

I too didn't. .. after the parts I already knew, my eyes just glazed over, and I relentlessly deleted. :)

[Girish, The Good cop]

No harm done then :)

I read one mystery whose GR summary had a dialogue that happens at the climax where the criminal reveals how he would have gotten away. Stopped reading GR summaries after that.

[Ahtims]

Oh, that's bad!

[Girish, The Good cop]

Completed Eileen. Slightly underwhelmed but not a bad book. I liked it better than the Hotel Du Lac nonsense :P

[Ahtims]

Haaaiinnnnnnn!!!!!!!!
liked Hotel du lac better :P

[Ahtims]

Our next read was ..The Living by Anjali Joseph.
Will fill in the blurb when at desktop.

I had much expectations from this one, as it started the way I love- 2 lonely individuals trying to carve their niche in the world, who are not acquainted and who live in different parts of the world. Their only unifying feature is that both of them work in the shoe trade.
I kept on expecting their paths to cross.
But the story was buzzard - just the telling of snatches of two different lives, and I couldn't find any purpose to it.

Not that all loose threads have to be tied up, but this book was like discarded pieces of string lying on the floor.

[Girish, The Good cop]

i was disappointed too since Saraswati park was brilliant.

In the summing up chapters of both the parts, I detected a hint of what the author was trying.

Claire is someone who tries to pair shoes in her factory. She says perfection is not possible but you keep trying and make do.

in Arun's chapters the Malik says he is planning to machinize it making Arun the last of slipper makers, a dying trade reflecting his life..

the positive takeaway is the way readers might be able to relate to the restlessness of doing something with life. Post retirement elders have a tough time adjusting to the fact that they don't have to work anymore. They are bound to depression, sticklers to routine and are vulnerable.

not able to relate with Claire's life at all..

[Girish, The Good cop]

Shalini and I will be starting the Good Doctor from tomorrow. This is 2003 Booker Nominee . will post the blurb later.

[Girish, The Good cop]

40% done with the book and I must say this is a lot better than the blurb suggested..
started?

[Ahtims]

Oh my.... I fate decrees that I not join in this BR... coz I am yet to start my twin challenge, and by the time I start you would have completed .:D

[Ahtims]

Most possibly starting on Monday as I have engagements on Sat as well as Sun.

[Girish, The Good cop]

@Sri: Did you finish the book Col?