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READING PROGRESS 2017
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Read Rest Repeat :what I will be reading when not reading a text book
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And wishing you an awesome reading year ahead.
Good luck, Tarinee!
Nice list T. And I want to read The Room on the Roof, A Little Princess, The Day of the Jackal and some others too. Will keep an eye on this thread.
Best of luck and Happy New Year!
@EM,Dely : Thanku thanku :D@Rebecca : :D :D Glad to know Rebecca .I have read great things about these three books .so , expectations are plenty :)
@Avinash : Thank you and Happy new year to you too.May you have a great and full filling year Keep reading ,keep smiling :) :):)
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Good luck!:)
@Manju Showoff : thanks :) 2 of them are from your recomm. I will add Tigana ,after being done with all those pending Sanderson reads .But with LOR ,Sanderson and Schwab , I might end up reading lots of fantasy books this year :)
Happy new year and best of luck for reads! :)lots of these books are in my TBR....so you've got a lurker!! :D :D
:D :D That's great .
about that lurker thing you are forgetting I am captain America and my friend is Iron man with an awesome OS Jarvis .He is watches over my thread for possible Lurkers :P
baad main mat kehna ki maine warn nahi kiya :P
But seriously how is Neeli scarf ? I am thinking about adding couple of Hindi books to the list and that book is already on my TBR .I love short stories :)
Warning!! you don't want me to visit your thread! -_-Me too, big fan of short stories!! Neela scarf have contemporary stories. Its great!! definitely go for it :)
looking forward to your other Hindi reads, I too am going to read more of Hindi this year :)
you are more than welcome to lurk ,visit ,peep into ,build a house and live in this thread if you want :P :)will be keeping both eyes on those Hindi reads of yours and pick 2-3 from them :)
Tarinee wrote: "you are more than welcome to lurk ,visit ,peep into ,build a house and live in this thread if you want :P :)will be keeping both eyes on those Hindi reads of yours and pick 2-3 from them :)"
:D :D
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And a great list too!
Will keep peeping in for all the Bond books.
Good luck.
@ Gorab :glad you liked the intro and the list :)I might add a few more bond books if time permits.
Death Under the Deodars is in my radar and it claims 8 brand new Bond stories .so excited :)
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. -P. J. O'Rourke
So if you find me crossing road , with no care for the world ,chest pumped ,at a wrong time of traffic in Delhi ,don't be surprised .
I am reading "The Hobbit" and Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas as my first picks of 2017.
And if I am to believe this quote, I deserve a knight /sainthood/Nobel peace prize (too much?) ,if I die in the middle of reading them
@ Tarinee.. Happy New Year and have a great reading time..:)
@meera : thank you and wish you too a great year ahead .may you be more tangled with lot more great books :)
Book 1 : Reread of Hobbit .format : both Audio book and a paperback
My rating: 5 beautiful best chosen stars from the Milkway galaxy :)
Just a few thoughts about the author and his work (feeling privileged to do so on his birth day , posted also on cozy read thread )
Nothing moves a heart more than the selfless act of friendship .Aren't friends the ones we chose for ourselves ,who stood by us even though they are not of our blood .O dear Tolkien , God bless your soul for this beautiful story
And those last two chapters !!!
There are authors who can assemble magnificent words to make you awe at their literary power but only a man with a kinder heart like yours, oh dear Tolkien, can summon simple words that can pierce the heart both at pleasure and pain .My mind ,dear sir ,has gone numb long back ,for it can't comprehend the source of joy while my heart kept on begging for more .
Those last few pages of your work are even beyond the astounding work of a master story teller sire and I am ready to suffer through thousands of pages of nonsense rambling if I have a faint chance of reading even a single page of what I have read in those end chapters Of yours
I wish your blessed soul rest and peace on your very birthday sir
Thanks Em :)I hope you come to like the audio book ,whenever you decide on it :)
With Wodehouse,Bond and Agatha ,I would love to have one more Favorite author in common with you .fingers crossed :D
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The sea wants to kiss the golden shore The sunlight warms your skin
All the beauty that's been lost before
Wants to find us again
I can't fight you any more
It's you I'm fighting for
The sea throws rock together
But time leaves us polished stones
We can't fall any further
If we can't feel ordinary love
And we cannot reach any higher
If we can't deal with ordinary love
-A long walk to freedom OST
In search for a little bit of Ordinary love ,after the wonderful journey of &with The Hobbit, I am going to the mountains and the rain :) so ladies and gentlemen ,my second pick of 2017 is Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas by good old Ruskin Bond
cheers!!!
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format : both Audio book and a paperback
My rating: 5 beautiful best chosen stars from the Milkway galaxy :)
Just a few thoughts about the author and his work (feeling..."
lovely review. :D
@ thanks .eagerly waiting for your take on the story :)
I am visited by another kind of student,a small girl from one of the private school.Her mother has brought her to me for my autograph.'she studies your book in class 6' I was informed
'And what book is that ? ' I asked the little girl
'Tom Sawyer' she replied promptly .so I signed for Mark Twain
Vintage Bond
enjoying it very much . going to read couple of hours more :)
Lovely lines that about Ordinary Love. I have Rain in the mountains paperback. Had started it last year but DNF coz I felt I had to read some more of his fiction before it.
:)I would suggest Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra to begin your Bond journey .
This is a very small book and easy read at that and also Bond got Sahitya academy award for this book
His books are generally semi autobiographical in nature where imagination and reality is blurred at some point .hope you like it :) :)
Adding few more to the listYayati: A Classic Tale of Lust (have already placed my order with Amazon for a Hindi Hard cover ,most probably will pick this book next )
Though I was confused between the Hindi and English version ,I think Hindi version has a better chance of not loosing the essence of the original book ( Marathi) during translation
Neela Scarf (a contemporary Hindi short story collection)
Leave It to Psmith(supposed to be one of the better works of P G Wodehouse )
Our trees has been in my radar. I have read Delhi is not far which was okayish Susannas seven husbands which was very impressive and The blue umbrella which was not as lovely as I expected.
Book 2 : A Little PrincessFormat:paperback
my rating : 5 kindest and warmest stars from the universe
"I believe ,I hold
that your smile will keep me afloat
I hold ,I hold
tighter I hold
until your next smile !"
what a delightful book !
(I will definitely read this book to my daughter ,if I have one )
I love the message this book had to offer :
"I am a princess .All girls are. even if they live in tiny old attics.
even if they dress in rags ,even if they aren't pretty or smart or young. They are still princesses, all of us are.
didn't your father ever tell you that ?
didn't he ??"
princesses is not about being dressed in Royal finery and enjoy the worldly comfort .Rather a princess can be dressed in rags and still with the grandness of their personality and kindness of their heart ,can brighten other's lives.
And the chapter ' one of the populace ' is so heart touching .It broke my heart both with happiness and sorrow .Such kindness by Sara ,a little princess !
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you're the Bond in Bond recommendations!
Neela Scarf on the way for me too. interested for a BR?
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Format:paperback
my rating : 5 kindest and warmest stars from the universe
"I believe ,I hold
that your smile will keep me afloat
I hold ,I hold
tighter I h..."
Beautiful. <3
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a lovely review ♡
Gorab wrote: "Adding a little princess to my tbr. I'll read it to my daughter... she won't understand a word but still i will :P "I am sure if not the words , surely she will understand the warmth and love of yours and in future when she is of age to read and understand , this book is going to be one of her favorite because it was read to her by her father :) :)
and BR ,interested ? I am ready to pay a participation fee if you ask (bhavnaonko samjho ,not to be taken literally :P)
I am 229.654367% in :) just drop me a message when ever you are going to start the book
thanks M & Em & Em I am sure you will love the reread .This is just that kind of book :)
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Sure will ping you before starting it :)
Loved The Secret Garden by the same author. The Princess has been in my list for some time. Moving her up the list after your raving review..Will listen to from Librivox.
Rebecca wrote: "Loved The Secret Garden by the same author."I have read in some reviews that it has some India bashing in it .is it true ?
Rebecca wrote: "Will listen to from Librivox."
please do .it's lovely and with a good narrator,the experience will be magical :)
Tarinee wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "Loved The Secret Garden by the same author."I have read in some reviews that it has some India bashing in it .is it true ?
Rebecca wrote: "Will listen to from Librivox."
please d..."
Yes but very little nothing to be offended at. After all it is a childs perception of the place and people she was brought up with.
Book 3 : Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the HimalayasFormat:paperback
my rating : 3 jhil mila ti timtima ti tare aur adha tukda chand ka :)
some lines from past :
About Rain
I love Rain
my friends think it's a girly thing
What I think ?
I think my friends are idiots and loving rain is an unisex thing :P
About the mountain :
From the top of the hill
I saw a valley so naked and beautiful
as I sat mesmerized
whole of my past was reflected before my eyes
A past with memories nostalgic
sweet funny and those tear rolled moments of silent cries
I was numb for seconds a few
but in those brief moments of silence discreet
all I could remember was you , only you
About Ruskin Bond :
I like people who read books
I like people, a little more, who love to read Ruskin Bond .
But the thing I like most is to sit near my apartment Window and read a Ruskin Bond book myself and feel nostalgic , remembering all those time I spent with my friends and remember my beautiful village near the sea
And if there is a milkshake to go by Its Christmas :D
About the book
so you can anticipate my expectation when I picked the book "Rain in the mountain" by "Ruskin Bond" . A book talking about two of my favorite elements by one of my favorite author .Add to that a signed copy and the expectation was Huge :)
How was the book .what I liked about the book ? why ?
why ?
I don't know .
I only know I liked the book :)
'Why' is a very difficult and complicated Q to analyse a bond book
For his books only your heart knows what it feels.So any bond fan go for it and any newbie , read the caution carefully :P
Caution : (Imagine that bone and skull "danger" picture )
This book ,though beautiful and very diverse (with stories ,a play ,notes from bond's journals & his poems ) is not an Ideal book to begin your journey with Bond .My suggestion would still be one from 'our tree still grows in Dehra','time stops at Shamli 'or 'room on the roof ':)
Nice review!! I've been meaning to start with Bond's work, I'd follow your recommendations :)
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@Jayanth : thank you , OTSGD is my personal favorite if you want to read Bond :)@Thank you Em ,Have read your review , beautiful one (as always ) :)
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I also got my Neela scarf yesterday .we can start from today if you want :)
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And I have promises to keep
A lot to read before I sleep
A lot to read before I sleep "
-Not Robert Frost :P
I have started my journey as a book reader from audio books .Source : my father and his ghost stories where the protagonists were always cleverly replaced by Him.That's also the time when I started believing I am meant to save the world like my father saved our village time and again from Ghosts,vampires and shape sifters :)
But for physical books ,I largely depended on the Odia book collection of my father .I read them hungrily and exhausted the collection before leaving home for higher studies .
But for English Literature all I had access to were those small abridged classics available at our local book shop or tinkle digest and Raj comics .About all other great books I had no Idea then .So my real Introduction to English literature was as late as my Engineering first year .
My 11th and 12th were the driest period as a book reader due to the highly demanding engineering entrance preparation .But this was also the period when I read and fell in love with HP series (only book series I read in those two years) :)
2016 was many firsts for me as a book reader . I have come across lots of amazing authors ,the audio books (currently in love with them ) , few amazing friends who are also excellent readers.I have read their reviews and picked my books for 2017 from them .
Athough I always maintain a jornal on my life's events and books , I am going to update my this year's read here and if you are my Friend ,you will find (most probably) books you have read Decades ago .If that's the case (which will be mostly) , I have surely picked them from your shelf and have definitely considered your rating :P
some of my probables (not in the order ) for this year are
The Hobbit★★★★★A Little Princess★★★★★Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas★★★★Neela Scarf★★★★★The Way of Kings★★★★Now You See Me★★★★★The Room on the Roof★★Aunts Aren't Gentlemen★★★★I'd Rather Read: Your Favourite Authors on their Favourite Books★★★★This Savage Song★★★Norse Mythology★★★★★Fortunately, the Milk★★★★★The Wolves in the Walls★★★★★As a Man Thinketh★★★★★Words of Radiance★★★★★Virat Kohli : Reliable Rebel★★★Banaras Talkies★★★★Saaye Mein Dhoop★★★★★A Monster Calls★★★★★Snapshot★★★★★Skin Deep★★★★chander pahar★★★★★AFTER FAILURE, WHAT?; and other ten articles on success.★★★★★The Fellowship of the Ring★★★★★Elon Musk: Inventing the Future★★★★★The Well of Ascension★★★★★The Hero of Ages★★★★Shutter Island★★★★★The Two Towers★★★★★Tales of Fosterganj★★★★★The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere★★★★Musafir Cafe★★★★Tigers for Dinner: Tall Tales by Jim Corbett's Khansama★★★★★Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
The Shadow of the Wind
The Thirteenth Tale
Boy's Life
Open
The Day of the Jackal
The Silence of the Lambs
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lonesome Dove
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Galveston
A Darker Shade of Magic and cont.
The Book Thief
Leave It to Psmith
The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1
Books will be mercilessly DNFed if not liked from this highly researched supposed to be full proof great reads list and new books will be added depending on my mood and reviews by friends :P