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[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hello Buddy...

How are you?

I finished Boy meets boy yesterday... 3 stars... It was an okayish cute story...

Wanted to start Wallflower, but didn't want to spoil my mood, so Started Come tell me how you live - Syl's reco... It's interesting so far and 20% done...

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

I am abandoning Wallflower buddy.... I am not liking it at all... and there seems to be no point in trying to finish it... 40% done and am dropping it ...

Moved Americal pastoral also to TBR as i think it needs to read relaxed.... will pick it up later....

50% done in Come tell me how you live.. and liking it so far...

started middlemarch amd 3 pages done...

crossed 200 page mark in sivagamiyin sabatham and things are getting very interesting....

[Hajarath Prasad]

Good evening, buddy

Reading Update :
Couldn't read much because of phone.

Sivagamiyin Sabatham - 75% Getting interesting with every chapter

Started a physical book called The Vegetarian (Man Booker Prize Winner 2016) by Han Kang.. And read around 25%. Very interesting but very mature and dark too

[Ahtims]

Vegetarian ... tell me what you thi k at the end ..

I have mixed reactions about the book.

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Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Started a physical book called The Vegetarian (Man Booker Prize Winner 2016) .."

Sorry for being an annoying nitpicker, but it did NOT win "Man Booker Prize", nor even it was nominated or something (not sure, but I THINK translated works are not allowed for Man Booker Prize).

However, what it did win was "Man Booker International Prize", which is kinda different from the original Man Booker Prize, although both are awarded by the same Man Group.

That's it. Now, carry on ;)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Good evening, buddy

Reading Update :
Couldn't read much because of phone.

Sivagamiyin Sabatham - 75% Getting interesting with every chapter

Started a physical book called The Vegetarian (Man Boo..."

Will wait for your review of Vegetarian..

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Morning buddy...

Finished DoW and Only you with manu during the weekend...
Liked DoW . It was an unusual fantasy story with lots of scientist and historical references... But eventhough with lots of info, the story still felt like finished prematurely.. I liked the way the Vampires were more described close to predators. I'm in for reading the next part whenever you both want to..!!

Only you was good, funny with the guy trying to bring up a 2 month old infant...

84% done in Come tell me how you live... It's a slow read but anyways different and I'm liking it...

Didn't read anything else during the weekend... Will try to start Great hunt and promise of blood/champion today....

You finished legend book 1 right?? Did you start Prodigy???

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

shall we start reading palace of illusions/boys in the boat this week???

[Hajarath Prasad]

Good morning, buddy

Reading Update :

Finished Book 1 of Sivagamiyin Sabatham
Finished Vegetarian
Reached 80% of The Perks of Being a wallflower

[Hajarath Prasad]

I'm around 80% in Legend. Will finish it today and start Prodigy. Give me 2 days and I'll finish it. Let's go for Champion (3rd part?) then..

And yes, we can start Palace of Illusions today

[Hajarath Prasad]

Arpit : Anne, I overlooked 'International' :( Apologies

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Good morning, buddy

Reading Update :

Finished Book 1 of Sivagamiyin Sabatham
Finished Vegetarian
Reached 80% of The Perks of Being a wallflower"

how many stars for Vegetarian? And how was it?
I dropped the wallflower book, in case you didn't notice ;-)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "I'm around 80% in Legend. Will finish it today and start Prodigy. Give me 2 days and I'll finish it. Let's go for Champion (3rd part?) then..

And yes, we can start Palace of Illusions today"

okay then, I'll wait for you to finish prodigy and then we can start champion... I'll not available from Wednesday next week buddy...

[Hajarath Prasad]

3 stars. 1 extra star for the crisp writing

I noticed. I just didn't want to talk you into restarting it again :P

[Hajarath Prasad]

Why not available? 🤔

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "3 stars. 1 extra star for the crisp writing

I noticed. I just didn't want to talk you into restarting it again :P"

Bingo! ;)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "3 stars. 1 extra star for the crisp writing

I noticed. I just didn't want to talk you into restarting it again :P"

you can never talk me into restarting it :-) It's forever dropped :-P

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Why not available? 🤔"

Wednesday a work trip, and rest of week will be in native :-)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

going out of chennai for work trip?

[Hajarath Prasad]

Native? Shudders thinking of how the dozens of books she is going to complete

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

@manu I'm going to my college for a guest lecture ;-) on behalf of the company.. ;-) Agreed to the trip bcos I can go to my in-laws place ...

@buddy, I won't be reading anything, as I'll be busy with Nithi and household work ;-)

[Hajarath Prasad]

Guest Lecture in your college? 😍😎😎💪💪

Way to go, buddy :D :D :D

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Guest Lecture in your college? 😍😎😎💪💪

Way to go, buddy :D :D :D"

ha ha :-D they(at work) wanted me to travel since long time, and since this is my native, I thought Ill go :-) Hope it will go good..!!

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Iniya wrote: "@manu I'm going to my college for a guest lecture ;-) on behalf of the company.. ;-) Agreed to the trip bcos I can go to my in-laws place ...

@buddy, I won't be reading anything, as I'll be busy ..."

that is so cool.:D

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Finished Come tell me - 4 stars// and I'm 7 books ahead of the schedule... :-D *sunglasses*

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

yayyy.... hope you finish before time. :D

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Iniya wrote: "@manu I'm going to my college for a guest lecture ;-) on behalf of the company.. ;-) Agreed to the trip bcos I can go to my in-laws place ...
"

Awesome!! Good luck, Ini :)

[Ahtims]

Congrats Uni..
All the best too 😊

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

thanks Arpit and syl😃

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Manju wrote: "yayyy.... hope you finish before time. :D"

:-D :-D

[Hajarath Prasad]

Good morning, buddy

Reading Update :

25% of Palace of Illusions
Nothing much

This is one of the finest books based on Mahabharata already. I was always disappointed with the books based on Mahabharata because they hardly said anything new. The drama, the perspectives, the narrative, they were all just the same. But this is vastly different from other books in all the above. I read one book about Draupadi earlier, but it started after she was married to Pandavas. But this one is so refreshing because the narrative starts right from the beginning of her life. And the drama and the situations are conceived in a different way too. Which helped in more drama than that was there in Mahabharata sometimes.

Stunning, stunning writing.

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

I didn't read anything yesterday buddy... Was having cold so just lazed around... Totally forgot about palace of illusions :-O Will start it today.. Also planning to start The Death of Ivan Ilyich today.. It's Shar's reco and relatively short ... You didn't read for the monthly read?

Will also start Promise of blood which we are reading with manu today... She already started...

[Hajarath Prasad]

I didn't, buddy. What was the monthly read? 🤔

Okay will start Powder Mage today

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

author of Powder Mages takes his inspiration from BS. So expect lot of action. :)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Manju wrote: "author of Powder Mages takes his inspiration from BS. So expect lot of action. :)"

BS??

[Hajarath Prasad]

Brandon Sanderson

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Hajarath Prasad wrote: "Brandon Sanderson"

Oops :-P okay... I thought it's abbreviation of series name :-P

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Harry, Ini, lets do that Bingo challenge together. meaning read same books.

pleech.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

if you two say yes, then i will delete all my previous entries for my challenge.

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Manju wrote: "Harry, Ini, lets do that Bingo challenge together. meaning read same books.

pleech."

:-D That's a sweet request... I still don't understand much the bingo challenge... I'm in if you can explain that to me :-)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Understood :-| I didn't read through properly first time :-( I'm in, but you have read so many already for this challenge na?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

O . O . O . O . O

O . O . O . O . O

O . O . X . O . O

O . O . O . O . O

O . O . O . O . O

1. A buddy read with someone in the group
2. A debut novel
3. A book under 300 pages
4. A book you own and haven’t read yet
5. A book with a blue cover
6. A book in a series you have already started
7. A book with an anti-hero
8. A book recommended by someone on Goodreads
9. A Young Adult book
10. A book by an author you have not read before
11. A book with a one-word title
12. A book you can read in one day
13. FREE SPACE
14. A book featuring an unlikely friendship
15. A book over 800 pages
16. A book published before 1970
17. A book on your to-read list for more than one year
18. A book with a person on the cover
19. A book from a (sub)genre you don’t usually read
20. A book by an author under 25 at the time it was published
21. A book with a dragon in it
22. A book published this year
23. A standalone book
24. The last book in a series
25. A book of your choice

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

for 1 you have to BR a book with someone in the group like we read prodigy and champion

2 - we have read a debut novel, say ghostwritten by david mitchell

3 - a book less than 300 pages, say 600 hours of edward

... so on...

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

did you get it?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

i am using same book for multiple challenges. so am not loosing any point even if i start this afresh. ;)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Manju wrote: "did you get it?"

yes :-)

[Em*Greedy* (Iniya)]

Manju wrote: "i am using same book for multiple challenges. so am not loosing any point even if i start this afresh. ;)"

Fine then :-) I've created the thread there...

[Hajarath Prasad]

I've created the thread too, Manu :) I asked my forgetful buddy yesterday about this, but she didn't reply :P

[Hajarath Prasad]

You mean we will read 25 books together? 🤔 😍

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

you don't want to? O.o is it so bad?