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*Update 1* Book 1/150:
The Fox, by D.H. Lawrence.
It was an amazing read!
D.H. Lawrence never disappoints.
I give the book 4 Stars.
Congrats on completing your first book in 2020!
This is my favorite quote of all time! I hope it brings you luck with your reading in 2020! 
I apologise for not updating this thread. Thanks, Megan, for the quote. It was very motivating. Also, Thank You, Lisa.
*Update 2*Book 2/150:
Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
I don't really know what to say. This play bewitched me, mind, body and soul. Pygmalion made me think, and I uncovered thought processes that I didn't know even existed.
I can't give it any stars, because, in my opinion, it's briliiance can't be measured.
*Update 3* Book 3/150: The Woman Who Rode Away, by D.H. Lawrence.
Yet another Lawrence work, and I can't stop marvelling at his writing style. In this short story, Lawrence is at his best: he gets into his readers' mindscapes so effortlessly, and he torments them. Reading him and coming to terms with his brilliance is an ordeal that is an absolute pleasure.
I give this story 4 stars.
*Update 4* Book 4/150:
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.
I am reading this book for the third time in three months, and that probably explains everything :)
It's impossible to not love this book.
Brilliance can't be measured, so, I shall not attempt to do so by giving it a rating.
Good luck on your reads Shivani. I'm planning to read 150 books in my reading for pleasure reading challenge too. ^_^ So far I've read 11 books and hope to get to my next read later today.
*Update 5*Book 5/150:
The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro.
To call this book "Brilliant" would be a major understatement. In this novel, time doesn't flow like a river. Instead, it rages back and forth, runs amok and goes crazily wild, all the while maintaining the semblance of a smooth flow. Memories, or rather, the power of them, have been sacredly woven into this book. With every word, you're given a chance to live and breathe and thrive with Munro's past.
This book was an absolute gemstone.
I give this book 4/5.
*Update 6*Book 6/150: Stop What You're Doing and Read This! , by Zadie Smith, Carmen Callil, Blake Morrison and several others.
In this book, each of the essays spoke passionately in favour of reading, and by doing so, began a religion: the love of reading. In this religion, the reader in me found Love, Hope, Comfort, and, above everything else, Courage. The Courage to chase more books, with twinkling stars in my eyes.
This beauty gets a 5/5.
*Update 7*Book 7/150: The Prussian Officer and other stories, by D.H. Lawrence.
In this beautiful amalgam of passion, struggle, death, longing and wonder, we find the mastery of D.H.Lawrence over Life and living blaze out in resplendent glory. Each story in this collection is a masterpiece, a tribute to the convoluted imperfection of human emotions and desires.
As usual, D.H. Lawrence can never disappoint.
I give this book a 4/5
*Update 8*Book 8/150: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison.
I have always wondered. Wondered if I would ever read a book so magnificent, so spell-binding, so bewitching, that it would make me forget to breathe.
So, this afternoon, when my back was propped up against my chair, with my lungs gasping and devouring after all those breaths they had forgotten to inhale, I knew that I'd met the masterpiece I was looking for.
Toni Morrison made me go breathless, and that's a sensation that I want to experience again and again, a thousand times over.
I have no right to measure the beauty of this book in numbers. Some treasures are measured by the gratitude that fills your heart after reading the book :)
This is Shivani here, and, in 2020, I am looking to read 150 books.