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4) To Desire A scoundrel by Tracy Summer
3) A Scandalous Past by Ava Stone
2) True North by Mary Force
1) Ryan's Return by Barbara Freethy
My cousin Rachita, is 20+ years younger than me. We met after 17 years and we find that we are so much similar, in almost everything.
Posted for Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Alyce of At Home With books
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's Pick: Top Ten Books I read in 2011
I had a massive reading slump. (I still have it.) My reading came down to 63 books from 96 read in 2010. And that was a down slide from 150+ books read in 2009. In 2011 I haven't really picked up any memorable books. I read a lot of trashy, light stuff to get me to reading but with no avail. I might as well pick the Top Ten (No, these are definitely NOT trashy reads):
"Well," I said, "sometimes you just have to trust your gut."Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Jenny Q is hosting it on her Let them Read Books blog for the month of December 2011.
I received only one book after so long, thanks to the author:
Tho' It Were Ten Thousand Miles by by William.H.A. Williams:
Seamus O'Rouke's obsession with a girl he discovers on You Tube turns into love when Fiona MacKenzie turns up on his Midwestern campus. While the sixty-five-year-old Irishman's pursuit of this twenty-year-old folk singer is against all reason, rhyme does play its role. Seamus is adept at wielding poetry, as well as music, art, gourmet meals and fi ne wine, in his campaign for the heart of his green-eyed auburn-haired beauty.
Did you get any books for Christmas? If so, what were they?My cousin's wedding, which I attended on 4 December, 2011. The second pic is from the reception held on 7th December, 2011. My grandma passed away after the wedding. Glad she could meet her newest grand daughter in law!
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| Anand and his beautiful bride, Soumya |
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| youngest cousin Rachita, Anand, Soumya, moi and Jhili, our sister in law |
The Bitch by Les Edgerton
The Bitch explores the dark choices that Jake, as a two-time offender faces to save both his life and his soul--life imprisonment if caught for the third time under the federal ha-bitch-ual criminal law--known to outlaws as "The Bitch." Choices that may cost him everything and everyone he loves. What are the limits of loyalty? What is the spiritual process by which a savvy hair designer deteriorates into a mass murderer? A work in the cold existentialist tradition of Sartre and Camus, and the transgressive fiction of Celine, The Bitch struggles for answers and, on finding them, a way out.
Any books you’re hoping to get for the holidays this year?
How about giving? Are you giving any good ones?
I will not be getting ANY books as gifts unless I have a fairy God mother, which I don't have. No one is keen to buy books for me. I wish there was someone out there who did that and gifted me ALL the Jo Nesbo novels, published till date.
I have bought a lot of books for my nephews, nieces and friends.
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's Pick: Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings
I want ALL the crime fiction written till date! Now ten is not enough but let's curtail the list:
1) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
2) White Dog by Peter Temple
3) The Red Coffin by Sam Eastland
4) The Drop by Howard Linskey
5) Lying Dead by Aline Templeton
6) The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd
7) Watch the World Burn by Leah Giarratano
8) Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
9) The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri
10) Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Jenny Q is hosting it on her Let them Read Books blog for the month of November 2011.
I also downloaded free kindle editions from Amazon. You can check those out for NOOK too. Have fun looking out for interesting titles at Pixel of Ink. (I have subscribed it on my Google Reader).
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. I am STILL in the midst of reading:
What’s one book you always recommend to just about anyone? 
My Grandma, Lalita Rath (23/11/1916---15/12/2011) left behind a huge family. Six daughters, three sons, four sons in law, three daughters in law, sixteen grand sons, twelve grand daughters, seventeen great grandsons and fourteen great grand daughters....
We are all so blessed to have had her in our lives......Now she will bless all of us, from above.....
Here I am not grieving. But I am celebrating her long life. She left a legacy behind and we are glad to have each other.
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| December 7, 2011 |
What’s more important to you? Real, three-dimensional, fleshed-out fascinating characters? Or an amazing, page-turning plot?
As I read a lot of crime fiction, Plot is very very important for me. With a good plot, the novel fall apart. I simply cannot go on reading it. With a strong plot, characters don't play much role as everything falls into place.
However, characters are very important for literary fiction....and I will leave that for another day...
“No, Sugar. Off. Sugar! Come!”
That didn’t sound good. He fought to free his arms from under his body and succeeded just as the brute made a horrible retching noise and something spilled onto his back..
~A Fair to Remember by Stacey Joy Netzel
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's Pick: Top Ten Books I Want To Give As Gifts (and to who...even if you won't actually give them!)
Here I go:
1) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll to any kid I know who hasn't received it from me in the last few years.
2) Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson to my nephew (he is 23 years old and has been eyeing the trilogy on my bookshelf)
3) Tin Tin Albums to my good friend, Suchis (well, I am NOT going to part with my collection ever!!)
4) Poetry books to myself. I need to read poetry more and more.
5) Twilight series to the nearest river. Those really need to be thrown into obscurity
6) Technical books to my brothers
7) Cook books to my sisters in law
8) Short story collections to my mom
9) Fashion magazines to many of my friends
10) A Book of Photography to someone VERY special
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Jenny Q is hosting it on her Let them Read Books blog for the month of November 2011.
I also downloaded free kindle editions from Amazon. You can check those out for NOOK too. Have fun looking out for interesting titles at Pixel of Ink. (I have subscribed it on my Google Reader).
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. I am in the midst of reading:
What kind of books do you like to read?
Do you find that your mood affects the things you read? Like, if you’re in a bad mood, do you tend to indulge in reading that will support it or do you try to read things that will cheer you up? Do you pick different types of books on dreary, rainy days than you do on bright sunny ones?
For that matter, does your mood color what you’re reading, so that a funny book isn’t so funny or a serious one not so deep?
I never thought of myself as a mood reader but lately I find I am one. I read more of romances when I am in a reading slump. It gets me back to reading. I pick up graphic novels when I want a light read. I choose heavy stuff when I am travelling. It keeps me totally hooked.
"You might not understand but I gave you the best of me, and after you left nothing was ever the same.. I know you're afraid, and I'm afraid too."
Author: The Best of Me
Author: Nicholas Sparks
ISBN: 9780751542974
Publisher: Sphere/2011
Pages: 292
The Notebook was the first book I read by Nicholas Sparks and The Best of Me is the second one. I have not read anything in between except for watching Message in a Bottle, which too was by chance. I received The Notebook as a gift and Hachette India sent me The Best Of Me.
It is about two teenagers who are from opposite sides of the tracks, love each other fiercely yet are forced apart. They come together again after 25 years to their hometown to attend the funeral of a person they both loved, but at different points of their lives. Amanda is married with three children and Dawson Cole has remained the way he was, single and very much alone. There is no place for anyone in his life.
There are three stories running in this novel, which are all nicely tied up in the end. Tuck and Clara, who we know only via Dawson and Amanda's thoughts, Bonner family, who survives despite odds and Dawson Cole, who can't escape his family. And Amanda, who is torn up to make choices.
One can't help liking Dawson better than Amanda, and although I guessed the ending, I didn't want it to go that way. There are moments which touched me and I was blown over by Dawson's selfless love for Amanda. I am not a fan of mushy romances but I think I will pick up more of Sparks' novels.
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's Pick: Top Ten Books On My TBR List For Winter
I read pretty much anything. So I don't make a reading list. Maybe I should. So let me think:
1) The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff
2) The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
3) A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock
4) Carrie by Stephen King
5) Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend
6) Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
7) Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
8) Storm Prey by John Sandford
9) Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
10) Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books after a tour, she is hosting it on her Mailbox Monday blog for the month of November 2011.
My friend gifted me the following three books:
The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock
I also downloaded free kindle editions from Amazon. You can check those out for NOOK too. Have fun looking out for interesting titles at Pixel of Ink. (I have subscribed it on my Google Reader). I downloaded the following 8 free e-books:
Twas The Night
Surrender the Wind
A Regency Holiday
Open Season (Joe Gunther Mysteries)
Mad Money (Madeline Carter)
Entangled
Mary's Son: A Tale of Christmas
The God's Wife
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. I managed to read a few e-books via my kindle on PC on my laptop! I finished the following:
the best of me by Nicholas Sparks
No, I am buying books for anyone. Not even for myself...In fact I am giving away some of what I own!
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