Thursday, March 31, 2011

Booking through Cereal boxes

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What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever read? (You know, something NOT a book, magazine, short story, poem or article.)

I read the labels on anything. Shampoos, cartons, you name it I read it! I have read the compositions of any medicine, be it skin ointment or oral medicines. I read all the instruction manuals. Then I read all the road signs..If that isn't odd, then what is?

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Top Ten Authors That Deserve More Recognition


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens. 

This week is all about Top Ten Authors That Deserve More Recognition!

I will only list one name:

Warwick Deeping (1877-1950): A medical doctor, native of England, he left his practice to write novels. His most creative period was 1903-1950 and his most famous work was Sorrell and Son, 1925. He wrote some 60 odd novels and was very widely known in England and America. He wrote many historical novels and excelled in the Edwardian period. I have read around 10 of his novels, mostly pertaining to the time period he lived. The simplicity of the prose and complexity of the story make some of his novels outstanding. I would have read more but his books are unavailable. Right now I am trying to get hold of ebooks which are available for free. I do think that he needs to be read. Despite being a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, for some reason, he is not at all known now. I hope some publisher thinks of resuscitating his books. It would be worth anything. Do check him out at wikipedia.


Teaser Tuesday: No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

“Here,” she whispered.
He sucked in a breath. What the—
She lifted the hem of her blue robe and drew it up over her pants, revealing the white canvas suicide bomber vest wrapped around her torso.
His heart stopped. “Oh, shit, Sam…”


~Page 154, No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading/Musings

Mailbox Monday has moved over to  I'm Booking It for the month of March 2011.

I received nothing in the mailbox this week too! That makes it more than a month!

Update (I forgot!!) I did receive the following e-books in pdf forms: (it will TAKe me AGES to read those!)

1) No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

Book Description:
CIA communications expert Samarra Wallace is on the run from a faceless enemy when she learns terrorists have kidnapped and threatened to execute her cousin. She will do whatever it takes to free her, including breaking cover to contact the former teammate she is dangerously attracted to. Now all she has to do is convince him she's not working for the bad guys.

Ex-Army Ranger Ben Sinclair isn't sure he can trust Sam, but he can't turn her away. Lives are at stake and she may be the only way to capture the terrorist mastermind his team is hunting. Despite his reservations, he finds himself falling for her. But when Sam's innocence is questioned again during a botched operation in the remote mountains of Afghanistan, the team pays a terrible price for trusting her. In the wake of that staggering betrayal Ben must decide if she's the innocent woman he fell in love with, or if she's a traitor who'd set them up to die.


2) Across Eternity by Aris Whittier


Book Description: 
 Born a genius; education, wealth, and prestige came easy to Logan Richards. Actually, there wasn’t much that Logan couldn’t learn or acquire. However, he knew there was more to life than money and power. Logan was determined to find the woman who he'd dreamed of his entire life and know what it was like to love her before he died.
    Amber Lewis, a waitress for a five-star restaurant in, Dana Point, California, was overworked, stressed, and wary of life since her sister, Heather, had passed away. Then, one evening while working she fell hopelessly in love with Logan Richards, a chivalrous man who felt deeply familiar. 
    For Amber, it was the beginning of a voyage of self-discovery and renewal. For Logan, it was the completion of life. For each of them it was the deepest sort of love.
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Currently reading Silent Partner by Jennifer Chase
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Do you read books while you…
…eat? … bathe?… watch movies or tv?…  listen to music?… While you’re on the computer?

I read while listening to music and watching tv. None of the other!

Sunday Salon: Birthday week


This post is not at all about books and reading. It is going to be a rant, which will fizzle out as you read along.

2011 has not been good so far reading wise. I am reading VERY slowly. There are many reasons for that, a mix of my mood, work and other factors. But I am not really bothered about that. I am also receiving a lot less books. That does not bother me as I have too many unread books. 

Anyway, this post is NOT about books. It is about my birthday, which was on 22 March. Except for my  mom, youngest brother and his family, and facebook friends, everyone who is an important part of my life forgot my birthday. That includes my older two brothers and a few of my closest friends. I really felt hurt for a day or two. I make it a point to remember their birthdays, anniversaries etc etc, and how could they forget mine? But they did and that is that. I did not receive any gifts other than from my mom. 

Today, I invited my younger brother and his family for lunch. We did have a good time. He and my SIL gifted me a pair of  oxidized Silver Bangles! I wore those throughout the lunch! That is WHAT made up for my week! I should have modelled the bangles on my wrist!

Anything Goes On Saturday - my poetry blog


"Anything Goes on Saturday" is a meme hosted by Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews. It's a chance to choose any topic you want and talk about it on Saturday - it can be about a book, TV show, movie, a recipe or just an update on your week. Whatever you choose. 

I will shamelessly promote my poetry blog today. I write poetry at my blog, rooted. I started it much before this book blog. I do have a lot of poets in my network. I write poetry for my own pleasure as well as prompts. You go, read any of my poems and don't forget to comment there. And do let me know, here too.

Enjoy!

Friday, March 25, 2011

Book Blogger Hop/Follow me

Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee,  Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and

Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java

Do feel free to explore my blog. You will definitely find something that interests you as I read wide range of genres, except maybe for a few. I also write poetry. You can read that on my other blog, rooted. Now go, explore both of my blogs! And follow them, if you like!! I follow blogs I like via Google Reader...


Enjoy!

Friday Find: Cut, Paste, Kill by Marshall Karp

Book Blurb:

When Eleanor Bellingham-Crump — a socialite responsible for the death of a ten-year-old boy — turns up murdered on the floor of a Hollywood hotel bathroom, Lomax and Biggs are confronted with a crime of artistic brutality. Along with the scissors impaled in Eleanor’s lifeless body, the two detectives find a meticulous scrapbook documenting a motive of vengeance in lurid detail.

As more bodies are discovered, each one connected by the intricate scrapbooks left at the scene, Mike and Terry go on the hunt for a vigilante stalking unpunished criminals. They must race to decode the meaning behind the scrapbooks before the crafty avenger has time to cut and paste the story for another kill.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Booking through Serial

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Series? Or Stand-alone books?

Something like this was asked in BTT in September 2010. I will answer it in a similar vein. I prefer stand alone novels any day . I have read the Harry Potter series and also read all the three  novels of the Millennium trilogy. These are exceptions than the rule. 

One has to read series in the proper order.And that totally puts me off. It has to be VERY good series to pique my interest. And I also don't like to wait for the next book. For stand- alone novels, you can just pick it up, with no worries.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Top Ten Bookish Pet Peeves


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens. 

This week is all about Top Ten Bookish Pet Peeves! 

Now how do I list those? Let me start:

1) I don't like long paragraphs. Some go on and on. Prime example being War and Peace. Although I did like the book after that bad start.

2) Un-necessary  use of similes and metaphors. It takes away from the story
3) Too many characters introduced and they don't make sense after a while.

4) Book blurbs not doing justice to the content.

5) Obnoxious covers which do nothing for the novel

6) Wrong grammar. I can't stand it.

7) Use of Slang language. I want to throw the book!

8) Neat endings where everything is tied up! Too neat gets my goat!

9) When the plot gets blurred. In some novels, one loses the plot and it doesn't make sense any more, what the author is trying to say.

10) Movie covers! That is a guarantee that I won't pick that particular book!

What about yours?

Monday, March 21, 2011

Out At Night by Susan Arnout Smith


"They've been using the money to fund eco-terrorism. Paying for safe houses. Guns. Bombs."

~Page 210

Title: Out At Night
Author: Susan Arnout Smith
ISBN: 978-0007275519
Publisher: Minotaur Books/2009
Pages: 283

When Professor Thaddeus Bartholomew is being chased by a killer, he has no time other other than type a text message with the name of Grace Descanso, before he is killed. He is found in a soy field, with a crossbow shot in his chest. 

Grace, is a crime-scene tech and is on a vacation with her daughter. FBI has no compunctions about getting in touch with her. Grace has only a vague recollection of the Prof and does not understand his last text before his death. Her Uncle Pete, who is in the FBI does not want her to walk away. 

When she starts the investigations in her own way, she finds her family involved in it. And the genetically modified soy is only a scratch in the surface.  And the Prof. murder is not a random act! there are politicians, and agriculturists involved. It is always  question of money. 

Out At Night is very real. In the sense that by modifying our plant life, we are playing God, creating havoc for the nature, for humanity. The initial want of better yields, has given way to destruction, power and money. We need to tackle those questions.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading/Musings



What is the last book you bought? Was it for you? for someone else? Have you read it, yet?

The last book I bought was The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. I bought it for myself and yes I have finished reading it. Click on the title to read my review of it.
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Mailbox Monday has moved over to  I'm Booking It for the month of March 2011.
I received nothing in the mailbox this week too! That makes it more than a month!

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I completed one novel, 
Out At Night by Susan Arnout Smith. Will post the review in a couple of days!

Currently reading Silent Partner by Jennifer Chase

Sunday Salon/Weekly Geeks: Ten Things About Books and YOU

This weeks Weekly Geeks' asks:

Tell us ten things about you with regard to books and reading. Let your imagination run wild!

I am listing ten bookish things about myself, in no particular order:

1) I inherited my reading from both my parents. My dad was into Science stuff, my mom into short stories. And I can read anything.

2) I read a lot of poetry, from classics to contemporary. 

3) I always use a bookmark.

5) I can't read in bed, although I do read lying down on the couch in the living room.

6)  I can read anywhere, except by travelling in a car or bus. (No, I don't read in the bathroom either!!)

7) Anywhere I go, the first thing I look up, is a bookstore. Used bookstores too.

8) I love the old libraries too. It makes me feel so much at ease.

9) I can't read e-books or listen to Audio ones. Love the good old paper ones.

10) Except for YA, I can read any genre, although nowadays, I am read more of Crime Fiction (which in itself contains a VAST genre)

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Anything Goes On Saturday - Dewey's Review Questionaire


"Anything Goes on Saturday" is a meme hosted by Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews. It's a chance to choose any topic you want and talk about it on Saturday - it can be about a book, TV show, movie, a recipe or just an update on your week. Whatever you choose. 

Those of us, who have been blogging for more than 4 years, we all knew Dewey. Most of what we see in the book blog world is in fact, what Dewey wanted for us...the networking, the connections with each other. She left all of us, to be one with GOD, but is still there in our hearts. 

Today, I am reproducing here, Dewey's Review Questionaire for all. I have used it in its entirity or part of it in many of my reviews. I find this very useful when I don't have much time to think. This questionaire has all the relevant questions which ought to be asked of any review.

Title and author of book:

Fiction or non-fiction? Genre?

What led you to pick up this book?

Plot summary:

What did you like most about the book?

What did you like least?

What did you think of the writing style?

Which of your readers are most likely to enjoy this book? Why?

Have you read any other books by this author? What did you think of those books?

What did you think of the main character?

What is the central character’s biggest problem?

How do you think he/she feels?

What strengths does she have that help her cope?

Do you know anyone who has been in the same situation?

What would you have done?

If you were his best friend, what advice would you give?

How would that help the situation?

8. What effect do the people in the book have on one another?

Any other particularly interesting characters?

Write a (physical, emotional, relational) description of three of the characters in the book.

Take two or three of the characters and write about their relationship to each other. How do they interact; who are they to each other?

If this book has been made into a movie, and if you’ve seen the movie, compare the book to the movie.:

Share a quote from the book:

Share a favorite scene from the book:

What did you think of the ending?

Do you recommend this book? If you use a rating system, what’s your rating?

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Feel free to use it but do mention Dewey. She is no longer there, her blog is no longer there, unless it is in your google reader, where all her posts are retained. But she lives on....

Friday, March 18, 2011

Friday Find: Frozen Moment by Camilla Ceder

Publisher's Blurb

One cold morning, in the wind-lashed Swedish countryside, a man's body is found in an isolated garage. The victim has been shot in the head, and run over repeatedly by a car. Inspector Christian Tell, a world-weary detective with a chequered past, is called to the scene. But there are few clues to go by, and no one seems to be telling the truth. Then, a second brutal murder. The method is the same, but this victim has no apparent connection with the first. Tell's team is baffled. Seja, a reporter and witness, thinks a long-unsolved mystery may hold the key to the killings. Tell is drawn to Seja, but her prescence at the crime scene doesn't add up, and a relationship could jeopardise everything. For the inquiry to succeed, the community must yield the dark secrets of its past.

Book Blogger Hop/Follow me

Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee,  Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and

Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java

Jennifer asks, "Do you read only one book at a time, or do you have several going at once?"

I read several books at once. A poetry book, a crime fiction, a science book, and any other that takes my fancy.

Parajunkee asks, "How did you come up with your blog name?"

For me everything begins with reading and ends with reading. So that is how I named my blog.

Do feel free to explore my blog. You will definitely find something that interests you as I read wide range of genres, except maybe for a few. I also write poetry. You can read that on my other blog, rooted. Now go, explore both of my blogs! And follow them, if you like!! I follow blogs I like via Google Reader...

Enjoy!

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Booking through Headlines

What happens when the line between fiction and reality becomes all-too slim? Discuss!

Books are based on real life situations. Some are so real that we instantly identify with them. However, in most books, the ending is positive, Everything sorts itself out. However, reality is not like that. For natural or man made catastrophes, there is always a tragedy of gigantic proportions. And that can't be sorted out. Not the way we wish it or want it. I do't think fiction can be taken as reality. The line is always there even though it might get blurred!

Literary Blog Hop: Must Read before the World Ends

Literary Blog Hop is hosted by The Blue Bookcase. If you features book reviews of literary fiction, classic literature, and general literary discussion, you too can join in!

This week's question is:

What one literary work must you read before you die?

For starters, I am not in a hurry to die! And I have read most of the Classics in while I was in High school and college. The ones I left out I don't really want to read. 

But yes, I will speak of poetry here. I want to read all the works of the following poets, not in any particular order:

1) W. B. Yeats
2) Percy B. Shelley
3) Robert Burns
4) Robert Browning
5) Lord Byron
6) John Clare
7) John Keats
8) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9) Robert Frost
10) Sylvia Plath

There are lot more. Of course, I have read many too. Poetry for me is like breathing to live!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Top ten characters in books that we wish were in our family


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens. 

This week is all about those characters in books that we wish were in our family!

I wish those following characters to be in my family:

1) LEE from East of Eden by John Steinbeck: I think he is one of best character in the book. He is unlike any other servant. He himself says that a servant can be the master of the man he is serving. But we never see him imposing on Adam Trask at any place. He is more of a family to them than anyone else. He is the one who brings up Cal and Aron single handedly. It is he who keeps them together. He is practical, down to earth and lots of philosophy going inside him. 

2) LIESEL from The Book Thief by Marcus Zusack: As a daughter. She is spunky, responsible and very lovable.

3) HANS THOMAS of The Solitaire Mystery by Jostien Gaarder: As a son who brings fantasy and mystery in our lives. Who helps is in merging reality with mysticism.

4) ALICE of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: As a little sister who has a vivid imagination.

5) INMAM of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier: as a lover/husband. He does not speak much of his feelings but his love for Ada is unfailing, all enduring.

6) IRIS of The Blind Assasssin by Margaret Atwood: as a big sister. Despite Iris's stocism, we see her shimmering anger. Her precise revenge. She is calculated too in what she is doing. When she is telling her story, we get to hear her inner voice too and her introspection. And I feel that makes her a good elder sister.

7) CAPTAIN HADDOCK of Tintin Adventures by Herge: Who would'n't love to have him as a brother? His usage of colourful language would be so welcome!

8) CELLIST of The Cellist of Sarajevo by Stephen Galloway: I need a fearless cellist in the family who would go on playing all the time unmindful of adverse circumstances!

9) LISBETH SALANDER of the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson: as a cousin. Who wouldn't wish for a brilliant computer hacker in the family?

10) MARMEE (Mrs March) of Little Women by Louisa M Scott: as a mother figure. She is the perfect mother one can have.

Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek

"The blood was definitely female."
"Female...What age?"

~Page 125

Title: Therapy
Author: Sebastian Fitzek
ISBN: 9780330453158
Publisher: Pan Books/2008
Pages: 293

It is as if 12 year old Josephine did not exist. She disappears without a trace from her doctor's clinic without a trace. Her father, a well known psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, searches for her and leaves his practice, goes to live in a remote North Sea Island. It is the only way he can deal with his loss. And he is also drifting apart from his wife.

A beautiful woman, Anna Glass, a writer of children's fiction, come to visit him and wants him treat her for her  rare form of schizophrenia. Her characters in her novel come to life for her and she does not understand that. Dr Larenz finds her story intriguing and reluctantly agrees to treat her as he somehow finds resemblance between one of her characters with Josie. He has to know more, and only by knowing the ending of her story, he might get to know about her disappearance.

Viktor's grief, his obsession to know more, keeps us hooked to this novel. The enigmatic Anna, we want to know more about her. She appears real and yet unreal. Viktor is warned against her but he can't let her go as he can't let go off Josie. Listening to her story, he believes Anna is somehow responsible for her disappearance.

The reader feels for Viktor, his desperation to find anything about his much loved daughter. The interaction between Anna and Viktor keeps the reader wanting more. And when we finally get to the end, it leaves us completely blown out of our mind. Therapy is a novel one can't put down without finishing from start to finish. I would definitely recommend this and look forward to read more by the author.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading/Musings

Do you have a favorite children’s book? Either one that you loved as a child, or one that you discovered later, and still enjoy? Tell us about it!

I loved Enid Blyton books. I have read almost all that she wrote. I still like to browse through her books. I feel every child should read Enid Blyton.
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Mailbox Monday has moved over to  I'm Booking It for the month of March 2011.
I received nothing in the mailbox this week too!

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I completed one novel, Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek 

Currently reading 
Out At Night by Susan Arnout Smith.

Will post the review of Therapy tomorrow!

How To Win a Free e-reader of Your Choice


Check out Monica of The Bibliophilc Book Blog, who is giving away the e-reader of your choice.  Do enter here.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Anything Goes On Saturday - Blogging, Facebook and Twitter


"Anything Goes on Saturday" is a meme hosted by Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews. It's a chance to choose any topic you want and talk about it on Saturday - it can be about a book, TV show, movie, a recipe or just an update on your week. Whatever you choose. 

Here I would like to ask something. Most of us have Facebook and Twitter accounts. We network via one or maybe both, in addition to blogging. I, for one, use Facebook to keep in touch with my old school and college friends. I don't twitter. I do have a account but never post anything, i.e., do not twitter! I find it a nuisance. Who is really interested in what I am doing every second of my life?! Nor am I interested to know anyone else's! And I have found people posting about when their dog/cat poo-ed etc etc. Is it what we have come too? Why should want to know that? 

Blogging for me is important. It keeps me in touch with books, or poetry. And about people who are like-minded. I would prefer blogging to Facebook/Twitter any day!

How about you? What interests you most? Blogging, Facebook or Twitter?

Friday, March 11, 2011

Book Beginnings on Friday/Friday Find

As the thirtieth minute ticked by, he knew he would never see his daughter again. Josephine had opened the door, glanced around briefly and slipped inside the old man's office.

Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek

Right now I find it totally engrossing. It has the potential for a great thriller.

Book Blogger Hop/Follow me

Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee,  Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and

Follow Friday 40 and over is hosted by Java


Jennifer asks, "If I gave you £50 (or $80) and sent you into a bookshop right now, what would be in your basket when you finally staggered to the till?"

My basket would be filled with Crime Fiction novels and a few poetry books. What else? Let me first have the money!

Do feel free to explore my blog. You will definitely find something that interests you as I read wide range of genres, except maybe for a few. I also write poetry. You can read that on my other blog, rooted. Now go, explore both of my blogs! And follow them, if you like!! I follow blogs I like via Google Reader...

Enjoy!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Booking through Multi-Tasking

Do you multi-task when you read? Do other things like stirring things on the stove, brushing your teeth, watching television, knitting, walking, et cetera?

I listen to music while reading. Other than that I can't do much. Yes, while travelling by train, I can read or in waiting rooms but that isn't multi-tasking. Previously, I could watch TV along with reading but not now. 

I wish I could do so many things while reading, but I can't. What about you?

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Top Ten Dynamic Duos


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens. 

This week, we have to list Top Ten Dynamic Duos. There are so many I really like. I will choose from classics to present day.

I list the following in no particular order:
1) Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare
2) Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson from Arthur Conan Doyle novels/stories
3) Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings from the Agatha Christie mysteries
4) Perry Mason and Della Street from the Erle Stanley Gardner series
5) Jane Eyre and Rochester from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6) Jeeves and Bertie from the Pg Wodehouse novels/stories
7) Heathcliff and Cathy from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8) Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
9) Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from Mark Twain books/stories
10) Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist from the Millennium Series by Stieg Larsson

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Teaser Tuesday: The Noah's Ark Quest by Boyd Morrison

"By remains, you mean hands, torsos, things like that?"
"No. That row of bags you saw before contains nothing but bones."


~Page 141, The Noah's Ark Quest by Boyd Morrison

Monday, March 7, 2011

Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading/Musings


What book(s) are you most excited about right now?

Right now, I am not excited about any book. Mainly because I have not been reading anything. I had not even had time to check out books...
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Mailbox Monday has moved over to  I'm Booking It for the month of March 2011.
I received nothing in the mailbox this week!

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I had not been able to read anything due to census work. For the first time, a whole month passed without my finishing a single book.


1) The Elephant Tree by RD Ronald

2) Too Rich; Too Thin by Barbara DeShong

Sunday, March 6, 2011

TSS/Anything Goes On Saturday - Collecting small boxes


"Anything Goes on Saturday" is a meme hosted by Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews. It's a chance to choose any topic you want and talk about it on Saturday - it can be about a book, TV show, movie, a recipe or just an update on your week. Whatever you choose. 


I will talk about some totally unrelated to reading. I like to collect small boxes. Carved wooden one, marble ones, then there is one which is made up of camel wood, amongst others..... I keep knick knacks in those, i.e., jewellery like small earrings, finger rings etc etc...

I also like to gift such boxes to my friends. They are a great hit. Why not? You can have a look at a few of the boxes I have...I love the smallest leather one. One can keep it in ones Purse/bag. Very handy!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Book Blogger Hop/Follow me

Follow Friday, is hosted by ParaJunkee,  Book Blogger Hop, is hosted by Jennifer (Crazy-For-Books), and

Follow Friday 40 and overis hosted by Java

Jennifer asks,"Who's your all-time favorite book villain?"

We are going to see a lot of answers mentioning Voldemart. However, Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is my all time favourite Villain. Although I should call him that. Anti-Hero is a better term to describe him.

Friday Find: Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye

Summary (from Unbridled Books):

Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has divided them emotionally ever since. When his father for the first time finally tells the story of the horrific disaster he has carried with him so long, it leads the two men to reconsider each other.

Meanwhile, Noah’s own struggle to make a life with an absent father has found its real reward in his relationship with his sagacious wife, Natalie, whose complications with infertility issues have marked her husband’s life in ways he only fully realizes as the reconciliation with his father takes shape.