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

Finished Lunar Chronicles this week. I would recommend it to people who love fairy tales and their retellings.

Also read, The Ninth Rain, and it was fantastic. Great world building, and good characters, it was a compelling read.

Now reading IT.

[Shakti Singh Rathore]

Finished Girl on the Train today. Next up is, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

I will be focusing on books written in 18th century, bought a bunch of them. It’s like I am unable to stop myself from buying books whenever I go outside.

This month has been fantastic, was able to complete 15 books, only abandoned 2 which I didn’t like much after reading 80-90 pages, probably will pick them up again sometime later this year.

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

My friends are on opposite spectrum regarding GotT. Some loved it, others not too much.

Les Miserables!! 0_0 all the best, that's all i can say.

Have you read Pride & Prejudice. If you haven't, do try. One of the best books of 18th Century.

Lolss... Every bookworm is a book hoarder. 😃

[Aashish]

I started The Fountainhead and found it too fictional right at the beginning. I think it just doesn’t suit my reading preferences. I am going to shelve it for the time being and starting with freakonomics tonight.

[Avinash]

I am currently reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

[Isha]

Reading, “The sun is also a star” by Nicola Yoon

[Nidhi]

Eleanor oliphant is completely fine, Rebecca,India on my platter

[Neha]

In between reading four books at the moment.. Continuing May reads
The Bell Jar - 68%
Becoming - 50%
Strange the Dreamer - 20%
The Poet X - 28%

~so many books, so little time~ :|

[Bimit]

Batman: The Killing Joke novel by Christa Faust and Gary Phillips

[Sharath]

am currently reading 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt and listening to 'Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine'

[Vivek]

Extract from VQE Tale of an Indian Physician in UK of 1980's

"With such large-scale plunder stretching out over three centuries, India’s consequent penury was certain and its pathetic plight at the time of its independence understandable. But a poor man is rarely asked an explanation for his poverty. He is judged on his appearance and so was the case with India in the period from 1947 to the early 1990s.
This opening paragraph from Alex Tunzelmann’s book, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, aptly reflects the reversal of fortunes that colonialism effected. Describing the scene in pre-colonial times she writes:

In the beginning there were two nations. One was a vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive swath of the earth. The other was an undeveloped semi-feudal realm, riven by religious factionalism and barely able to feed its illiterate, diseased and stinking masses. The first nation was India. The second was England.

By 1947 when the British had finished with India the transposition was complete: affluent India had become poor and indigent England rich.

[Avisek]

I am reading 1Q84 now. I just completed Book 1 of the trilogy.

[Nidhi]

Just started The great derangement by Amitav Ghosh

[Hrishikesh]

homo deus by yuval Noah harari

[Anshika]

Becoming by Michelle Obama and
Turtles all the way down by John Green

[Savita]

Just started The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

[Kanarese]

i'm currently reading Ponniyin Selvan by Kalki, translated by Indra Neelameggham.

[Nidhi]

I am now reading Jokha Alharthi's Celestial Bodies.

[Nick906]

Suditi wrote: "I have already read the Mahabharat and it's very close to my heart. I have also watched the Mahabharat serial by B.R Chopra. My parents made me read it and the Ramayan before anything else and any ..."

Which author's version did you read and in which language?

[Nick906]

India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia
by Srinath Raghavan.

[booktuberbuddy]

Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

By Chris Prentiss

[Shyam]

Since it's Charles Bukowski Birthday I'm reading his amazing poems from the book " Love is a Dog from Hell"

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

Currently reading Sunne in Splendor, been reading this from last six months but I am actually making some progress this time around... And HP#4...

[Shagun]

I am reading Lal Bahadur Shastri by Sandeep Shastri, the book takes a closer look at his pioneering efforts at ensuring self-sufficiency in foodgrains by ushering in the Green Revolution. My friend suggested me this book and I ordered it from SapnaOnline and got it delieverd in 1 day. I have read it half and is finding it very interesting.

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Currently reading Sunne in Splendor, been reading this from last six months but I am actually making some progress this time around... And HP#4..."

I've been reading Catch-22 for the past few months too! 😅
But I have a feeling I might finally finish it this month (or will I?)

You're finally reading Harry Potter??!! WHOOOOP!

I'm doing a re-read too. On Book 3 now. Planning to finish by end of this year! 🤓

[Kavitha]

I am reading Twinkle Khanna"s Mrs.funny bones.I am halfway thru this book , a nice funny read so far.

[Nidhi]

I finished all 7 HP s last month 😀
Currently in Indian reads I am about to finish A Fine Balance and Midnight Children. Catch 22 is on my TBR list for.... forever like Ulysses, I lack courage to pick them up.lol.

[Abish]

Deep wrote: ".. on the book "Ulysses"pages..."

It is hard to read and to comprehend you might (need God Level) have had to read twice or even more than that

My friend read it and started asking so many questions ...it has very subtle approach

There is a list of all these questions , you better start making one ^_^

[Nick906]

Currently, I am reading Glimpses of World History.
It's a magnum opus.

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

Shoa wrote: "You're finally reading Harry Potter??!! WHOOOOP!

I'm doing a re-read too. On Book 3 now. Planning to finish by end of this year!..."

high five!

yup, finally! though i read first three books last year but I adamant on wrapping up remaining books this year. :)

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

Starting The Ten Thousand Doors of January today. Have been reading great reviews of this book on my home feed lately. keeping fingers crossed that I too like it.

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Shoa wrote: "You're finally reading Harry Potter??!! WHOOOOP!

I'm doing a re-read too. On Book 3 now. Planning to finish by end of this year!..."

high five!

yup, finally! though i read first thr..."

🙌🏻😄

You go girl!

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Starting The Ten Thousand Doors of January today. Have been reading great reviews of this book on my home feed lately. keeping fingers crossed that I too like it."

Nice! Even I wanted to pick it up. The cover's so gorgeous! But too many books to-be-read in the near future already! 😅

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

IKR. some of these new releases have such beautiful covers, I want to read them solely for their covers but then sanity prevails. ;)

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "IKR. some of these new releases have such beautiful covers, I want to read them solely for their covers"

Trueeeee! Especially the YA fantasies released this year are simply blowing it out of the water with their gorgeous covers!! 🤩

Em Lost In Books wrote: "but then sanity prevails. ;)"

Not in my case 🤣

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

Shoa wrote: "Trueeeee! Especially the YA fantasies released this year are simply blowing it out of the water with their gorgeous covers!! 🤩..."

hahaha... it is only now I am giving in and reading them because I want to read some easy books and don't want to ruin the tough books that I have on my tbr. :)

Not in my case 🤣

what all did you read? anything worth recommending?

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Unfortunately I haven't gotten around to reading any of the fantasies released this year. I meant I end up buying them. Got We Hunt the Flame, Sorcery of Thorns and Spin the Dawn, but haven't read any of them. 🌚🌚🌚

I've heard really great things about Sorcery of Thorns, planning to read it this year.

Among other books released this year, I read Frankly in Love but found it to be quite overrated.

And I loved The Bookish Life of Nina Hill!

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

I read spin the dawn last week and quite liked it. Now waiting for the sequel. Also read Wicked King when it came out and on tenterhooks for the finale which is coming out in November. You should give it a try.

I have set my eyes on Sorcery of Thorns too. Really good ratings. Hopefully i wil manage to coerce my partner in crime to read it with me next week.

Ugh, I hate it when i read a book everyone is gushing about and absolutely failed to see what is special about it. 😶

I will look for Nina. 😎

[Bela]

Just picked up an old classic, Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne.

[Pragya]

I have read Sorcery Of Thorns this week and it is really good.
I am currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns.

[Hrishabh]

I just finished We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and started Land of the Seven Rivers by Sanjeev Sanyal.

[Shoa, @TheCupboardUnderTheStairs]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "I read spin the dawn last week and quite liked it. Now waiting for the sequel. Also read Wicked King when it came out and on tenterhooks for the finale which is coming out in November. You should g..."

Ya I've been meaning to read the Folk of the Air and Caraval trilogies. They're so wildly popular these days, with so many special editions coming out every other day lol

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

Nidhi wrote: "I finished all 7 HP s last month 😀
Currently in Indian reads I am about to finish A Fine Balance and Midnight Children. Catch 22 is on my TBR list for.... forever like Ulysses, I lack courage to pi..."

I have A Fine Balance on my tbr. Have only good things about it from friends, hopefully I will make time for it this year.

Did you like it? and how about Midnight Children?

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

Bela wrote: "Just picked up an old classic, Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne."

I have been procrastinating on Anna Karenina since forever. I read 2-3 pages one day and then put it away to come back to it in 2-3 weeks to read 2-3 pages again. >_<

Hope you are fairing better than me with Verne.

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

Pragya wrote: "I have read Sorcery Of Thorns this week and it is really good.
I am currently reading A Thousand Splendid Suns."

I am definitely picking it up next weekend.

Thousand splendid Suns is a splendid book. :)

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

Shoa wrote: "Ya I've been meaning to read the Folk of the Air and Caraval trilogies. They're so wildly popular these days, with so many special editions coming out every other day lo ..."

yeah... all those beautiful covers, hard not to swoon over them.

Folk of the Air is one of the be ya fantasy series...

[dely]

I started reading No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. I'm crying since the first page because it is a true story and the author is still in a "refugee camp" (i.e. prison) in Australia.

[Ramla Zareen]

I recently read Sophie Kinsella's latest publication: I Owe You One and was pleasantly surprised. 

I say this because I was a big fan of Sophie Kinsella at one time. The first five or six books of her Shopaholic series and her standalones:
—Twenties Girl
—The Undomestic Goddess
—Can You Keep a Secret? 
. . . are among my favourite romantic comedies. (Saving I've Got Your Number for later to read as a special treat. My friend assures me it's as good as the books I mentioned above :-)

But then her writing just seemed to have lost its spark. The later books of her Shopaholic series didn't appeal much, and her standalone: Wedding Night actually felt like it was written by someone else! I simply stopped reading her books altogether. 

I'm glad I picked up I Owe You One, though. It wasn't a five-star read, but I could see some of her original spark in the book. Looks like I'm going to get my favourite romcom author back after all :-)

[Bela]

I just finished The Farseer trilogy, the first trilogy in the Realm of the elderlings series. A superb fantasy series.. can’t wait to pich up the next one, The liveship trilogy.
At present , started with the classic, Dom casmurro by Machado de assis. Loving it so far.

[Kavitha]

I am reading Idlis to ipad a funny read about a typical housewife whose life turns around once she gets married.