Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings

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

Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading?/Musings

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:

The Boat by Nam Le

The Litigators by John Grisham

What’s one book you always recommend to just about anyone?


Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Sunday Salon: No secret gifts, nothing.....

This year due to too many things in my platter, I forgot all about Book Bloggers Holiday Swap. I did not know about the sign ups until that closed. So this year I am left with no Secret Santa gifts. Oh I will send to Veens, no matter what but I get nothing! It isn't what one gets, it is about that feeling of closeness with someone you have not met in real life. So this year I am gonna miss that. 

However, I will definitely buy books for myself. We all need to pamper ourselves and I will do that! I was out of Delhi for more than a week, to attend a marriage. My reading has taken a backseat, although I am in the midst of too many novels!

Today I plan to read and also write a poem or two! 

Saturday Snapshot: December 17

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. 

December 7, 2011

Posted for Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Alyce of At Home With books

Booking Through Character or Plot

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...

Teaser Tuesdays: A Fair to Remember by Stacey Joy Netzel

“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 Books I Want To Give As Gifts

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

Mondays: Mailbox/What Are You Reading?/Musings

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:

The Boat by Nam Le

The Litigators by John Grisham

What kind of books do you like to read? 
Why? Provide specific examples.

Crime Fiction. Any kind!!

Saturday Snapshot: December 3

Party Time in School! 

Posted for Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Alyce of At Home With books

Booking Through Moods

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.