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How many have you read ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

Me? A Poor 13. I am not proud at all !!!

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Finished reading " Its Not About the Bike - Lance Armstrong".

I would surely recommend the book, Its a good and fast read. Even though it dwells on what most would think a depressing subject. A man's fight against cancer. It is well written, fast pased and gives only so much gyan as is needed to put a point across. No endless text of medical terms and same time gives a glimspe into the exciting world of champion ship cycling.

Picked up ''Yes Prime Minister" - This one has been on my shelf forever now, Inspite of being such a big fan of "Yes Minister" I dont know why this one is still unread :o)

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Just Finished with Carnage by Angels - Y.P.Singh. Its a well written book, Mind numbing actually, The very fact that an IPS officer has had this to write about the Elite IPS and the Police Force of the country scares me. Worth a read, but the vocabulary used is very impressive but tough to understand as well, Got to refer the dictionery quite a few times to understand sentences and contexts. All in all a good read.

Picked up Songs in Ordinary Times - Mary Mcgarry Morris. This is one of the book i have bought just on instint, I had not heard about it, nor was it referred to me by someone. Just picked it up Off the shelf and said a little prayer that it should turn out value for money. However earlier decisions to pick up books on instinct have been satisfactory, I had picked up I know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb. Had turned out to be quite a good choice.

Just Books - 3

Finished The Secret - Rhonda Byrne.

I first came across this title on Pranjal's Blog and wanted to pick this up ever since. I guess the "Secret" was working for me even before i knew what it is and i started reading this book. One of the core message in this book is that Thoughts becomes Things and it was proved when i just asked a guy in office if he has heard about this book and turned out that he did and also agreed to lend it to me. There the secret worked just like that ! I hope it works forever !

Picked up Carnage By Angels - Y.P.Singh.

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Finished with Is Paris Burning finally, Took a really long time. It is worth the time, nothing less to be expected from Larry Colllins and Domnique Lappeiere. They make you feel like you are reading a fast paced action Robert Ludlum kind of novel and not an event in history. Fantastic read, I just hope these Germans and French people had names which were easier to pronounce and remember, Gets a bit tough to remember who is who, with so many people who were part of this historic event.

Picked up The Secret, So far so Good !

Dont quote me on this !

I have been tagged by some people and i have never been able to do them till date, and then there are tags by Usha, which i finish off in a jiffy ; Simple reason she has promised i can bill my time on her ! So now you know what you got to do if you want your tags finished !

This is what the tag is about: “Jot down 5 of your favorite quotes from the various books you’ve read. If you don’t have the books with you now, googling (Wikiquotes and the like) can be used to find them. Tag five people and acknowledge the person who tagged you.”

Here Goes

1. Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears" - Shantaram
2. You dont love someone becuase they are perfect, you love them inpsite of the fact that they are not - My sisters Keeper
3. The road towards self-reliance cannot not lie through the past - A Fine Balance.
4. Worry is a waste of emotional reserve. - The Fountain head
5. The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family - Tuesdays with Morrie

Now to complete the tag rule and to pass on this to five more people; There are only 7 priviliged people who read my blog, One is the lady who tagged me ,So i tag the remaining 6 !.

1. Jyoti
2. Main Meri Aankh Aur Sirf Main
3. Pranjal
4. RS
5. Raji
6. Sneha !

Notice the clear gender bias there :0)

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Just finished reading The Silent Raga by Ameen Merchant. A good read, Very good actually.

Picked up Is Paris Burning - Larry Collins And Domnique Lapierre.

Book List

Got this from Pranjal's blog ; Liked it and picked up straight away.

Bold - ones I've read
Underlined - ones I read for school
Italicized - ones I started but didn't finish

Addendum
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
ATale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
OliverTwist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything - SorryMr. Bryson
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaghterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Conclusion :
1) I am ashamed at the number of books i left unfinished
2) Thanks to Pranjal ; I have a huge book list to choose from!

Once again, This is not a tag but whoever reads this and "reads" should do this !