Books, books, books.

Perhaps we didn't discuss books enough. Perhaps you wish to know what I was like when I was young. The kind of books I read...did I like romance better or humor? What genre did I love reading? And maybe you will take a look at this list and feel you have known me better...

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Books I read in 2010 contd.

I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of AdulthoodMini Shopaholic: A NovelInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterAll Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A NovelEat Pray LoveReal Men Don't Pick Primroses (on an alpine-style ascent)2 States: The Story of My Marriage  The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun  All Eyes on Her (Red Dress Ink)

Notes:
Into thin air -- Haunting book, hard to get out of my head...

Mini-shopaholic -- fun!

Friday, July 13, 2007

Recently-Read

2010
  • May - If I could tell you - Soumya Bhattacharya
  • March - As it was written - Sujatha Hampton
  • March - Happiest toddler in the block - Harvey Karp
  • March - Sleeping arrangemtns - Madeliene Wickam
  • January 2010 - The everything parent's guide to vaccines - Leslie Young
  • January 2010 - Jemima J - Jane Greene
  • January 2010 - Something blue - Emily Giffin

    2009
  • December 2009 - You are here - Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
  • December 2009 - Cocktails for three - Madeleine Wickam
  • November 2009 - The Mistress - Anita Nair
  • November 2009 - Bridget Jones's diary - Helen Fielding
  • October 2009 - Babyville - Jane Greene
  • October 2009 - Good in bed - Jennifer Weiner
  • October 2009 - Best friends forever - Jennifer Weiner
  • September 2009 - This is where I leave you - Jonathan Tropper
  • September 2009 - The secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd
  • September 2009 - Charlotte's web - E.B.White
  • August 2009 - The other side of the story - Marian Keyes
  • July 2009 - Twenties girl - Sophie Kinsella
  • July 2009 - Love the one you're with - Emily Griffin
  • July 2009 - This charming man - Marian Keyes
  • June 2009 - Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson
  • June 2009 - The men I didn't marry - Janice Kaplan, Lynn Schnurberger
  • June 2009 - Climbing the stairs - Padma Venkatraman
  • May 2009 - Sputnik sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
  • April 2009 - Remember me? - Sophie Kinsella
  • April 2009 - The no-cry sleep solution - Elizabeth Pantley
  • April 2009 - The baby whisperer solves all your problems - Tracy Hogg
  • March 2009 - The thyroid solution - Ridha Arem
  • March 2009 - The design of everyday things - Donald A.Norman
  • March 2009 - The camera my mother gave me - Susanna Kaysen
  • 2/8/2009 - Many masters, many lives - Brian Weiss
  • 2/3/2009 - Krishnavatara I (The magic flute) - K.M.Munshi
  • January 2009 - Marley and me - John Grogan
  • January 2009 - The white tiger - Aravinda Adiga
2008
  • 9/22/2008 - Forever Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
  • 9/21/2008 - Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer (3 books in 3 days!)
  • 9/20/2008 - New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
  • 9/19/2008 - Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
  • 9/2008 - The Vaccine Book - Robert Sears
  • 8/2008 - Five point someone - Chetan Bhagat
  • 8/2008 - Baby-proof - Emily Giffin
  • 7/2008 - The undomestic goddess - Sophie Kinsella
  • 7/2008 - Serving crazy with curry - Amulya Malladi
  • 6/2008 - Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • 5/2008 - Life isn't all ha ha hee hee - Meera Syal
  • 5/2008 - Palace of Illusions - Chitra Divakaruni
  • 4/2008 - Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination - Helen Fielding
  • 4/2008 - The green book - Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen
  • 4/2008 - High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  • 3/2008 - Wings of Fire: An autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam - Arun Tiwari and Abul Kalam
  • 3/2008 - Thirtynothing - Lisa Jewell
  • 2/2008 - What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations - Stephanie Cave, M.D., F. A.A.F.P., Deborah Mitchell
  • 2/2008 - The village bride of Beverly Hills - Kavita Daswani
  • 2/2008 - Shopaholic & baby - Sophie Kinsella (Yay! 3 books in 3 days!)
  • 2/2008 - Queen of Dreams - Chitra Divakaruni
  • 2/2008 - For Matrimonial Purposes - Kavita Daswani
  • 1/2008 - Next - Michael Crichton
2007
  • 12/2007 - Home Safe Home - Debra Lynn Dadd
  • 12/2007 - Notes to myself - Hugh Prather
  • 11/2007 - The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
  • 10/2007 - The four-hour work-week - Timothy Ferris
  • 9/2007 - Chasing life - Sanjay Gupta
  • 8/2007 - The house of blue mangoes - David Davidar
  • 7/2007 - Darjeeling - Bharti Kirchner
  • 7/2007 - Pastries - Bharti Kirchner
  • 6/2007 - Maximum City - Suketu Mehta
  • 6/2007 - Woe is I - Patricia T. O'Conner
  • 5/2007 - The Grouchy Grammarian - Thomas Parrish
  • 4/2007 - Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
  • 4/2007 - Super Foods: Fourteen Foods that will Change Your Life by Steven Pratt, M.D & Kathy Matthews
  • 4/2007 - Eating with Conscience: Bioethics for Consumers - by Fox
  • 3/30/2007 Stumbling on happiness - Daniel Gilbert
  • 3/15/2007 The inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai
  • 2/12/2007 Lisey's story - Stephen King
  • 1/2007 The female brain - Louann Md Brizendine
  • 1/2007 Be happy or I'll scream - Sheri Lynch
2006
  • 12/2006 FengShui for modern living - Stephen Skinner
  • 12/2006 Desirable Daughters - Bharti Mukherjee
  • 11/28/06 Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
  • 7/06 The Devil Wears Prada - Laura Weisenberg
  • 7/6/06 God's Debris - Scott Adams
  • 6/06 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • 5/06 Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Second time down!)
  • 5/15/06 How Opal Mehta got kissed, got wild and got a life! - Kaavya Vishwanathan
  • 4/9/06 Can you keep a secret? - Sophie Kinsella
  • 4/3/06 The Nanny diaries - Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
  • Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
  • Mistress of Spices - Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni
  • The Alchemist - Paul Coehlo
  • Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Sister of my heart - Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni
  • Vine of desire - Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni
  • Bombay Time - Thrity Umrikar


2005
  • Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Unknown Errors of our lives - Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni
  • Diary of a young girl - Anne Frank
  • The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  • The curious incident of the dog in the night time - Mark Haddon
  • The Mango season - Amulya Malladi
  • The Five people you meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
  • Stella in Heaven - Art Buchwald
  • Separate Journeys - compiled by Geetha Dharmarajan
  • Rich dad, poor dad - Robert T.Kiyosaki
  • The shopaholic series - Sophie Kinsella

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Book review meme - Darjeeling

For Sukumar's tag:

The aroma of tea accompanies the reader throughout the journey with this book. A grandmother trying to set things right in her very different grand-daughter's lives - Aloka, beautiful, delicate, talented and Sujatha - independent, smart and rebellious...and the love of their lives, Pranab...and blending with these colorful characters is Darjeeling itself and it's tea. Bharti switches the scene effortlessly to the sisters' lives in America and how their grandmother draws them back together for an interesting finale...one of the best books I have read recently.

And I tag Subhashini, Pradnya and Parth. Not sure whom else to tag :)

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

My books and my thoughts!

Posts about books that stayed behind with me :)

Favourite Books!


  • Love story - Erich Segal

  • Doctors - Erich Segal

  • Ice station zebra - Alistair MacLean

  • Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer

  • sphere - Michael Crichton

  • Prey - Michael Crichton

  • The choice - Henry Denker

  • Robert, My son - Henry Denker

  • Yargo - Jacqueline Susann

  • If tomorrow comes - Sidney Sheldon

  • Airport - Arthur Hailey

  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

  • Monsoon diary - Shobha Narayanan

  • Malgudi days - R.K.Narayanan

  • Jeeves Series - P.G.Wodehouse

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K.Rowling

  • The Hitch Hiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams

  • Writing a Novel - Nigel Watts

  • Emma - Jane Austen

  • A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth