Everything is Illuminated !!

 For ages, we have seen that great writes and poets have got into the groove of writing most eloquent novels and poems ; where William Shakespeare , William Wordsworth , Rabindranath Tagore etc are some people whom I adore for their works.

As a child I saw my father reading everything , even a small peice of paper which was wrapped for the chaana-battanies .. I always used to think how people could read such thick-fat novels (I still used to read those comics during my childhood days , esp. Tinkle which my mum used to get it home !! )

During this stage of my life, I was only reading tinkle and a few comics which we used to get it at home. I never tried my hands on those novels of Agatha Christie or Famous Five etc. rather it never fascinated me much. I liked viewing the Cartoon Network all day long , even now , if I am alone at home , My TV would be switched on for the CN channel. I get Glued to the "Tom and Jerry Series" .
Alternately ,these days I am reading too much of Philosophy stuff... I had lots of readings on Philosophy, Leadership etc ... and then changed towards the Chick-lit.

I had visited my cousins in Chennai and was really shocked to see the book shelves full of novels and books. Each of them had a set of books which they were "the owners". I felt really nice to see so many books which they've read , on the contrary, I was discussing about a few good movies which i had seen (one among them was Marley and Me) , and told them to see that one !! Unfortunately , i got the reply as , its a novel based upon a dog which becomes a family member. Agast !!! ehh !! I dint now what to do !! At the same time (rather to be precised, during my graduation days )i had completed almost all the books of Sydney Sheldon and then I started to get into the track of reading books.....

I usually read lot of book reviews and try to pick the ones that interests me !! There are a few classics which I havent read till now !( I would read them for sure. ) I'd like to list them because I feel that they are the greatest works and book for all-time.

• To Kill a mocking bird, Harper Lee 
• Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte
• Brids of Prey , Wilbur Smith

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , Mark Twain 
• The Canterbury Tales , Geoffrey Chaucer
• Little Women , Louisa May Alcott
• Life of Pi ,Yann Martel
• Arabian Nights

I donno whether I would be able to read all of these , but yes, One fine day this list would be struck out and I'll have the most memorable moment of my life.

I have seen many people reading the best sellers books' which are listed and they try to get them once the publishers set it out, but at the same time, some of them will not be able to justify the rating of the book. Its like seeing the super-duper flop movie during the premiere and walking out of the theater with broken hearts.

I always wish to own my books which I read and so I wait as long as I can to get the feeling of possession !!  By using the term "Feeling of Possession " , I would like to tell you that I was eagerly waiting to get the set of Calvin and Hobbes series - the best ever Comic I love to read. I just love Calvin Virtualizing about his friend Tiger, Hobbes and how he ends up almost all his conversation speaking about the crap that gets into his head and then retiring to his room !! Love it!! 

So, when I first saw this set in Landmark , it costed around Rs 9,999/- only. My heart sinked like the anchor into the water when the ship is set to halt !! And now everytime I go to the book stores I find the price decreasing. I had seen the latest listing of the set to Rs 4495/- in http://www.flipkart.com/. I will be waiting for a month or so and would grab this Priceless Possession Of mine.

Hope to check this listed stuff as they are More than Priceless !!

A Roller Coaster 1 ! - Those small Lil Things In Life and Love

I was planning to get the new set of books for my readings ... I wanted to read some easy ones ,which had fun ,romance and refreshing of memories !!
Me and my colleague ,went and purchased two books  one was "Remember Me "- by Sophie kinsella ,  and the other " Those Small lil Things in life and love "  , by Rahul Saini !!

I dint know what i had to do , so just grabbed this book by Rahul and started reading it . Its a comedy one which one faces in life, his crushes , love ,school days meeting friends... etc etc ... I dint know that the novels these days are even having Bollywood movies dialogs as well !!

Well , Rahul here actually started off with the Kuch Kuch Hota hain Dialog of " Hume ek baar jeethey hain , ek bar marthey hain ..... " . I dint know what i was doing , i could just write this down as my status message for my Facebook profile !! Good God know how he had got this idea of writing movie dialogs ... As I started reading , I also saw many ads, the way we use to talk when we were kids and the stuff which we used to do ... I was totally in an Enchanted world . After reading too much of  Philosophy , I felt that this book has brough back the fun which we have in Small things  in our life!!

One reading the cover page of this book , I felt as though i am reading the book "hum-tum" by Saif (which he actually writes in his movie Hum Tum ,someone could get me that book as well - Kidding , though)  Its cover page is also Awesomely designed ... I fell for the front page and got the book !!...

I donno whether this  book is good for the heck of it or not , but till now , it has given and got back all smiles on my face !! I am eager to finish this one, and would come back and post the entire Roller coaster ride of this Book !!!

Hoping to have a Happy Weekend!!


Second Review -  All in the hands of readers
This book was indeed a weekend special for me , as  I had no where to go , I was able to read this at a faster pace. Indeed, Rahul Saini has got all the girl specials of his life in this book and has narrated each of his moments at office and at school in a very proper way but leaves the reader to decide the tragic or happy end of this story !! He meets his love, but its upto the reader to decide what would be the new chapter of his book!!
Its a nice book for people who had a tiring week !!

Have Fun!!

Got em!!

As the time goes on , I feel like getting all the lost list which I cannot preserve it in my diary or my post-it-on's etc. Technology has aimlessly invented lot many things which we wish you use but sometimes we never find the right way to get to it!! 

From a couple of weeks I was too engrossed  in the list of movies which I had to see and every time I write it down , i dont find it again. As i was checking a few good interior sites on esty I happen to see a link ,somewhere saw an article , Life in lists ! I was curious to know what this would bring in store ! And Lo and Behold, I see something which would actually design my lists , to cross over the things which i have done ,to make a list of what all i could have planned to complete ,etc.  This really made me go in a gala world ! Nice and easy way to list out your own stuff!! I could rather call it more of listing out what we need in our life... Indeed a good one!! Thanks to the Creators ! 

Next thing which could choose is to have another list of the books (rather something like a virtual shelf) because I was digging on all the blogs which lead me to the one who read loads of books. I could not figure out which would be the next list of books which i had to read. I posted a msg on my sisters wall and she  came to my rescue !!

 A mail arrived , asking me to join Shelfari. The bad thing was, I already had an account created on 13th Sept 2007 , but never tried to get the glimpse of what it was. Nice one, I like the UI part of the webpage a lot and even got a list of them in to the "to -read" books . I was able to even see a list of good reviews from people across. It was really nice. 

After this , i logged into facebook and checked out the needed links to Shelfari and got a like it link! From there on I even got a new web url which was abt Goodreads , 

This one was also nice and neat with more elaborate things on review ,timing and even the date when you finish etc ! I created an account for the same and to my curiocity was amazed to see many of my freinds have been faithful customers to this link as well. 

Eh!  I feel all over books again ! As, I was reading a review about books , it gave me a feel to start my reading all over again !! Hopefully ,this time , I'd been reading all the classics and best sellers of the age and my long awaited book for this season would be "To Kill a mocking bird " and "Little Women" . 

 "Little Women" was my first so -called- book which i read it when i was a kid , as it was a gift from someone on my birthday and i still remember , my mum was trying to help me put reading the book. I dont know whether that was a full version or not!! 

Presently , I'm reading "The Monk who Sold his Ferrari "  - a book ,  which has been in my pending lists as I was caught in with the marital bliss and so on so forth !! crap !! Even now , I think that , i need to finish this one asap!! 

Until then , keep checking out updates on these links !! :) 

Have Fun !