Pragya's Aspirational List

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📍B - Books about books People of the Book
📍C - Childhood Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
📍D - Dogs Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
📍F - Fantasy Assistant to the Villain
📍G - Ghosts - The Haunting of Hill House
📍H - History Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
📍L - Love Warm Bodies
📍M - Mythology The Penelopiad
📍N - Nature Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories
📍P - Pirates The Assassin's Curse
📍R - Religion Infidel
📍S - Survival A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
📍T - True Crime The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
📍V - Villainy Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
📍W - Women On Women

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1 Badge 1, Book 1
2 Theme: True Crime
3 Link – The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
4 Listened to Audiobook, 07:00 hours.
5 Read a book about books
6 As the title indicates, this is about a true crime - murder, backdrop of making of the Oxford English Dictionary

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 2
2 Theme: Childhood
3 Link – Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
4 Kindle edition, 360 pages
5 Read a book about childhood
6 The book is about finding 7 trafficked children in Nepal. It reflects on how their childhood shaped up over the course of 3 years apart from other narratives.

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1 Badge 1, Book 3
2 Theme: Dogs
3 Link – Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
4 Kindle edition, 252 pages
5 Read a book about dogs
6 The book is about how a service dog helped a veteran with his PTSD.

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1 Badge 1, Book 4
2 Theme: Books
3 Link – People of the Book
4 Audiobook, 14 hours
5 Read a book about books
6 The book is about a rare illuminated prayer book and its journeys over the years.

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 5
2 Theme: Fantasy
3 Link – Assistant to the Villain
4 Paperback, 342 pages
5 Read a book of fantasy
6 The book is fantastical with dragons, guvres, and magic.

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 6
2 Theme: Villainy
3 Link – Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
4 Audiobook, 13 hours
5 Read a book of villainy
6 The book is about real life villainy, of having caused so much havoc and loss of lives across the world, just because no one cared and did nothing to save lives.

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 7
2 Theme: Nature
3 Link - Marrying Off Mother: And Other Stories
4 Kindle Edition, 197 pages
5 Read a book about nature
6 The book has plenty of nature, from cruises to animals to trips to Corfu.

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 8
2. Theme: Survival
3 Link - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
4 Kindle Edition, 244 pages
5 Read a book about survival
6 Autobiography of a 13 years old surviving through war in Sierra Leone

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 9
2 Theme: Love
3 Link - Warm Bodies
4 Paperback, 240 pages
5 Read a book about love
6 Weird zombie romance but hey, it's still love, in all its different forms :p Who am I to judge?

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 10
2 Theme: History
3 Link - Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
4 Kindle edition, 240 pages
5 Read a book about history
6 Book is about the life of a taxonomist among other scientific things he did.

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1, Book 11
2 Theme: Ghosts
3 Link - The Haunting of Hill House
4 Kindle edition, 265 pages
5 Read a book about ghosts
6 Book is about a haunted house and people who went to investigate it and found themselves in the middle of all the spookiness!

[Janice, Moderator]

This is still one of my favourite ghost stories. I read the condensed version of it in Reader's Digest Condensed Books when I was a young teen. My parents had a subscription at the time. We had a library of them, it seemed.

[Pragya]

Janice wrote: "This is still one of my favourite ghost stories. I read the condensed version of it in Reader's Digest Condensed Books when I was a young teen. My parents had a subscription at the time. We had a l..."

Oh wow, Janice. You were brave! I am not much of a ghost story/ horror person. I am easily spooked. So I tried to find myself the least spooky book and still decided not to read it at night haha

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1 Book 12
2 Theme: Women
3 Link - On Women
4 Paperback, 208 pages
5 Read a book about women
6 Book is about women and their sad state in society. Not much has changed in the last 50 years!

[Pragya]

1 Badge 1 Book 13
2 Theme: Religion
3 Link - Infidel
4 Kindle edition, 520 pages
5 Read a book about religion
6 Book is predominantly about Islam, its teachings and its impact, majorly on women.

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1 Badge 1 Book 14
2 Theme: Pirates
3 Link - The Assassin's Curse
4 Kindle edition, 320 pages
5 Read a book about pirates
6 Main character is a pirate

[Pragya]

Badge 1 Book 15
2 Theme: Mythology
3 Link -The Penelopiad
4 Kindle edition, 228 pages
5 Read a book about mythology
6 Retelling of myth of Odysseus

[Janice, Moderator]

Congrats on finishing Badge 1.