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[Prosenjit]

You can try Five Point Someone as well..pretty well written...

[Nathan]

Prosenjit wrote: "Austin wrote: "Prosenjit wrote: "Don't judge me...but I also started reading "Half Girlfriend" by Chetan Bhagat :-)"

Hahaha. Nothing wrong in reading his books. I have his [book:2 States: The Stor..."

Happily judging you = )

[Nathan]

Nick wrote: "Prosenjit wrote: "Don't judge me...but I also started reading "Half Girlfriend" by Chetan Bhagat :-)"
We are gonna judge you!! :)"

Hahhahaha xD

[GEETASHREE]

One can always shift to lighter readings.

I am reading stories if Rumi

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

Austin wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "Currently reading Kaikeyi"

Wow. One of the very few popular books that interested me from 2022. Generally, most recent popular books don't interest me."

Done reading and i think one must read it to draw their own conclusions. But this will not sit well with Hindus, specially who have read or know what goes on in Ramayana.

[Nathan]

Ahh then I'll just avoid it. Thanks for the update.

[Prosenjit]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Austin wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "Currently reading Kaikeyi"

Wow. One of the very few popular books that interested me from 2022. Generally, most recent popular books don't i..."

Intrigued!! May read it if some one buys and lends, will not buy it on my own!

[Prosenjit]

Almost at the end of the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan, either will start with his Brotherband young adult series or Michael Connolly's Harry Bosch series next.

[Prosenjit]

Started the Harry Bosch series today......reading The Black Echo

[Manik]

Finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo yesterday. Seemed average to me. More suited for who love glamour, juicy and gossip kind.
Have ordered Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows and The Henna Artist. Looking forward to them.

[L.C.]

I recently finished reading a book by Author Nabeel Qureshi titled "Seeing Allah and finding Jesus." I wonder how people in India and Pakistan feel about Nabeel. My neighbour who was a muslim from Pakistan shared over a dinner party about Nabeel and we were all fascinated so we all bought the book and read it.

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

L.C. wrote: "I recently finished reading a book by Author Nabeel Qureshi titled "Seeing Allah and finding Jesus." I wonder how people in India and Pakistan feel about Nabeel. My neighbour who was a muslim from..."

Never heard of him. How was the book?

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

Prosenjit "Librarywallah" wrote: "Started the Harry Bosch series today......reading The Black Echo"

How's it? I haven't read a proper Harry Bosch book but I have read few other books in his world.

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

Manik wrote: "Finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo yesterday. Seemed average to me. More suited for who love glamour, juicy and gossip kind.
Have ordered [book:Erotic Stories for Punjabi Wi..."

I have read two books by Evelyn author and found them avg. I have Evelyn, Malibu, and Carrie by the same author but I will be keeping my expectations low whenever i decide to pick up any of these books.

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

Recently read Cormoran Strike #1 & #2 with friends, and these books are fun. Would recommend but I think I am late to the party, most people I know here have already read this.

Also read Convenience Store Woman and Professor and the Housekeeper. Loved the former, and found the latter slow for my liking.

Now reading Shorefall and Butter Honey Pig Bread.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Apart from Cormoran series #1 & #2, I have completed my first ever manga series, the death note. It was really good.

On that note, are female characters usually less or mere out of convenience side-characters in Japanese fiction? Or is it just me?

Guys, please do recommend manga series (preferably completed ones) which would have flushed out female characters.

[Luffy Sempai]

Bookworm wrote: "Apart from Cormoran series #1 & #2, I have completed my first ever manga series, the death note. It was really good.

On that note, are female characters usually less or mere out of convenience sid..."

Check out Kitchen Princess, Gakkougurashi!, Fruits Basket.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Luffy wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "Apart from Cormoran series #1 & #2, I have completed my first ever manga series, the death note. It was really good.

On that note, are female characters usually less or mere out o..."

Thanks, Luffy! Will check these out. :)

[Luffy Sempai]

Bookworm wrote: "Luffy wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "Apart from Cormoran series #1 & #2, I have completed my first ever manga series, the death note. It was really good.

On that note, are female characters usually less..."

You're welcome!

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

Watch the anime too! It is fantastic.

I haven't read many manga but loved the anime.

I think it depends on what are you reading. The books that i mentioned both had female as the protagonist. Other than that Murakami books that I have read even if they are secondary characters, they did have an important role to play.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Yeah...have heard that the anime is awesome.
True, the books you mentioned, do have female protagonist.

I was asking about the manga, because when I surfed the net for recs, I found that many popular manga have less female characters or if they do, they're usually not well developed and most likely used as props.

Coming to the Murakami books that I have read, agreed they do have important roles to play. But, I do sometimes feel like the way Murakami writes females is cringe at best, mostly with "male gaze", it could be because his choice of writing is surrealism. Or could be more about the time period, he has written them (and hence the objectification). Maybe, it's just me and I'll need to read more of his works because other than that, I find his writing pretty unique and did enjoy his works.

Btw, I see Convenience Store Woman has great reviews. Will check it out, too.
Thanks, Em :)

[Prosenjit]

I have started reading the Bob lee Swagger books by Stephen Hunter,,,starting with "Point of Impact". I had watched and enjoyed the movie "Shooter" which was the movie adaptation. My friends from the Bangalore book club tell me that the first 4 books in the series are good, then it becomes repetitive, so planning to read at least the first 4!!

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Currently reading the City of Stairs. Is it just me or the names feel a bit Indian or similar to names from Indian peninsula? Some feel like Russian names too.
And found this link that has images of the cast in author's site:
https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/...

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

Bookworm wrote: "Currently reading the City of Stairs. Is it just me or the names feel a bit Indian or similar to names from Indian peninsula.
And found this link that has images of the cast in author's site:
http..."

yes!!! you will see a lot more if you continue.:)

never checked the author's site but those character images are beautiful.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "Currently reading the City of Stairs. Is it just me or the names feel a bit Indian or similar to names from Indian peninsula.
And found this link that has images of the cast in au..."

Yeah, the images are really beautiful. :)
I'm just around 20% in, have lot more to go. The worldbuilding is intriguing too.

[Prosenjit]

Just finished reading Point of Impact - by Stephen Hunter. I had watched the movie adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg earlier, and loved the movie. The book is even more awesome!! Looking forward to reading the second book in the series now. Also reading Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep...but thats on my work laptop as an ebook...during breaks at work!

[Kaya]

Rereading Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin. Probably my four hundredth reread.

[Austin]

I am currently reading Embassytown by China Miéville

[Ben]

I am currently readingSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind which I heard a lot about on blogs. Another oneMake It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, re-reading this one for my studies.

[Prosenjit]

Finished reading "Black Light" - the second book in the Bob Lee Swagger thriller series. Starting on the third book- "Time To Hunt"!! Hope it is as exciting as the first two books in the series!!

[Anjali]

Just finished Villette by Charlotte Bronte, a classics fan :). A slightly long read it was but a good one.
Planning to pick something by Fredrik Backman next (most probably 'my grandmother sends her regards and apologies ').

[Luffy Sempai]

I'm rereading Oathbringer, a book I gave 5 stars in 2017. It is a frustrating read. I do have the delight of gaining new POVs that I missed the first time.

The bloody book is more than 1000 pages long, and as usual, I am reading the e-book. 1000 pages of text means a high word count per page. This also means that I had to content with reading 40 pages per day, which take up slightly more than 3 hours of reading time.

Book 5 is to be released in late 2024. It will be the biggest book of the series yet. I know I am going on a tangent, but thought I'd do so anyway.

I will probably give Oathbringer less than the 5 stars I gave it initially. It is enjoyable, but it's like measuring a river with a thimble.

The author is very prolific, and is reasonably grounded in reality, and in fact is busy not only in writing these Stormlight Archive books, but also appears on reddit and YouTube.

His podcast with fellow author Dan Wells makes for a light and humorous 40 minutes. The latest video is about whether Gandalf is a Mary Sue. That's their title, their words not mine.

Apart from the Stormlight series though, Sanderson barely connects with me as a successful author. I tried to read Mistborn 4, which takes place many hundreds of years after Mistborn 3. Sanderson struck gold with his doorstoppers. He is not as good a writer as George R. R. Martin, whose worldbuilding is incredibly deep and subtle. But then I need to remind myself that The Way of Kings is the best book I've read in my life so far.

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

Austin wrote: "I am currently reading Embassytown by China Miéville

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how's it? Have heard some really good things about the author.

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

Luffy wrote: "I'm rereading Oathbringer, a book I gave 5 stars in 2017. It is a frustrating read. I do have the delight of gaining new POVs that I missed the first time.

The bloody book is more ..."

I concur! I really struggled with this one and that is coming from a huge Sanderson fan. Depressed Kaladin and Shallan struggling between two personas almost ruined the book for me. They're favorites after WoR but here they both tested my patience.

And Sanderson is also undertaking the huge task of connecting different cosmere world in this series which makes it a little too long and a lot more characters to keep tabs on. Three characters from Worldbreaker are handful enough, I don't know how I would react once more characters from others worlds starts popping regularly. :(

I have read only Game of Thrones by GRRM and they are world apart. While GoT heavily relies on its characters to push the story forward, magic plays a much bigger role in Sanderson world.

I didn't like the second trilogy in Mistborn world, am not sure about the new release next month. But sooner or later I will read it as everything connects in Cosmere. sigh.

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

Read Purple Lotus and Shorefall in last week. Both were mediocre reads for me.

[Austin]

@ Em, sorry to disappoint you but I didn't like it one bit. I already DNF'd it. I don't think you will like it as it's sci-fi. Though sci-fi is one of my favourite genres, it falls under the category of weird sci-fi. The writing is weird. A lot of made up words are used by the author and it's up to you to infer the meaning with your imagination. A few examples are shift parents, immer, manchmal, exot, exoterre etc. You won't find these words in Google. The descriptions of different places or settings were also not understandable.

If you are into books that fall into the weird category, go for it. These kinds of books are not for me. Another two weird books that come to my mind are The Ground Beneath her Feet by Salman Rushdie and The Flounder by Günter Gräss.

[Austin]

I DNF'd those two books as well.

[Luffy Sempai]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Luffy wrote: "I'm rereading Oathbringer, a book I gave 5 stars in 2017. It is a frustrating read. I do have the delight of gaining new POVs that I missed the first time.

The bloody..."

You may be right about Game of Thrones. Meanwhile, I am continuing my long journey in reading book 3.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Currently reading City of Blades. I'm halfway through and it's really good. Most folks here who're into fantasy might have already read the series. If not, then I highly recommend.

[Luffy Sempai]

I'm into mysteries, and fantasy, but I know almost nothing of the landscape of books. I'll try this one, but I'll probably get to the series next year. Not that it makes my thanks any more or less of an IOU.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Will look forward to your thoughts on this, when you'll pick it up. :)

[Luffy Sempai]

Bookworm wrote: "Will look forward to your thoughts on this, when you'll pick it up. :)"

Thank you.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Completed City of Miracles which marks the end of the divine cities trilogy.
Also completed Giovanni's room. It was long overdue and I highly recommend it. It's short too.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Happy Reading.

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

You're on a roll!!

A slow reading week for me. Reading will be even more slower next week as I am going out of station.

Currently reading Career of Evil and i am quite enjoying this.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Yeah, had some free time. Hopefully, I don't get slower in next few weeks.
Btw, Happy and Safe Travels! :)

[Bipasana]

I have just finished reading Creative Unity by Rabindranath Tagore. Currently, I am reading a non-fiction book: Languages of India.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Finished with The Stranger/The Outsider. 4*
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Recommended. It's a short read too.
As for my rating, it has less to do with my enjoyment but more to do with my appreciation for the writing and also because it's not everyday we get to read about such characters.

Happy Reading :)

[Bookie]

I am reading Amish Tripathi's Ramayan Series. Completed the first two, and onto the third, but I guess the Shiva Trilogy is more interesting in my humble opinion.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Completed A Room with a View by E.M. Forster.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's a short novel. Recommended.

Also, has anyone read Howard's End, Maurice, A Passage to India by the same author? How did you like them?

One tidbit: Maurice was completed by the author in 1914, it's about gay-love. Forster was sure that if he had published it, then it would have ended his career and hence it was decided that Maurice would be published only after his death.
It got finally published in 1971, along with few of his other stories that have homosexual themes.

[Luffy Sempai]

Bookworm wrote: "Completed A Room with a View by E.M. Forster.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's a short novel. Recommended.

Also, has anyone read Howa..."

I need to read Howard's End. I am on the brink of reading Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin who has that special place in the hearts of all people, just like Nella Larsen.

I have Maurice as an e-book somewhere on my laptop. I know of E.M Forster because he was the one who gave Roald Dahl his big break in books. Roald Dahl is a favourite of mine.

I'm okay with reading LGBTQ books, but not the M/M genre. Song of Achilles is a book that I don't see myself reading. F/F books are nearly as unapproachable to me, because of those that I have read, few cut the mustard.