My Very First Book Meme

I love doing meme’s and specially when its all about books…so here goes:

1. One book that changed my life.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte : If I had to learn about loving all over again I would learn it from this book. Though some would claim it to be highly over-rated but I still love it…All the time. It also happens to be my very first classic read. So I am there with it all the time….A hardbound classic edition from Barnes and Nobles adorns by bookshelf [which will be my pride and glory in my new home]…

2.    One book I have read more than once.

 

Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart… Read it to know why have I read it like a dozen times over and not got enough of it…I love everything about the book. The language is fluid and almost sweeps you with it. Read it. Highly Recommended. Will post a sneak preview on its quotes..
3.    One book that I would want on a desert island.

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar…A book with so many twists that it drives you crazy by the end of it and I wanted more of it by the time I was done with it…

4.    One book that made me laugh.

Anything by the colonial writer Wodehouse…anything at all. Though my favourite is the Blandings series. The funny book that tickled me pink was nonetheless “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 133/4 by Sue Townsend”

5.    One book that made me cry.

Hmm.  Not too many books do that.  Probably the book that engendered the strongest feeling of sadness/overwhelmedness is Night by Elie Wiesel.  It’s the story of his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps.  Powerful stuff. And the other one that had be in buckets of tears had to be “Of Love and Other Demons” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez..No points for guessing why!!

6.    One book that I wish I had written.

Has to be Vikram Seth’s “An Equal Music”. Pure Magic. Absolute and complete. Not a word that is out of place in that book…

7.    One book I wish had never been written.

All books written by Dan Brown, Suketu Mehta, Gregory David Roberts, and Sidney Sheldon.

8.    One book I am currently reading.

Loads of them…Eight at the same time to be precise. Its there in the form of a pictoral post..

9.    One book I’ve been meaning to read.

May be I will get there someday – the entire “A Series of Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket…

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