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Over the last two months I read Alchemist, Angels and Demons, and Namesake. At the moment I am reading "No God but God" by Reza Arsalan, so far it is interesting, talks about the origin of Islam and how it has progressed with time.
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I thought “no god but god” was a good read, Lusi… :k:
And “angels and demons” was far more interesting than the more critically acclaimed “da vinci code”.
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Just read 'East of the Sun' by Julia Gregson.... was pretty decent. :)
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currently reading ‘Footpaths in the Painted City’ - Sadia Shepard
a woman’s search for her grandmothers history as a Bene Israel in India
reads more like a novel than a biography though 
Ooh NICE thread! I only just discovered it.. lol
I just finished reading ‘Beautiful Child’ by Torey Hayden. It was soo good, was bawling like a baby :bummer: whilst reading this as some parts are really sad and since its based on the author’s experience, they actually happened. Overall, I enjoyed it as I found it really inspiring.
I want to try out Khaled Hosseini’s** ‘A thousand splendid suns’**.. have been hearing some good reviews on that for a long time.. the library is always out of stock though :naraz:
Beneath My Mother's Feet.............was a really good book. Simply written yet strong. It's about a lower middle class family that lives in Karachi. The daughter, 15-year-old Nazia, is the main character. Her parents have been saving up for her dowry for years. But then they lose it. And several tragedies take place that put the family in financial crisis. Nazia's simple life as she knows it comes to an end. And in the process of supporting her mother.........she learns some painful truths about her family members whom she used to adamantly defend and hold in high regard.
This book sounds really interesting, going to look for it at the library when I go.
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just baught three books… cant wait to get them 
the namesake - jhumpa lahiri
the case of exploding mangoes - mohammad hanif
the god of small things - arundhati roy
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breaking pomes - Suheir Hammad
Zaatar Diva - Suheir Hammad
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The recently i read were picks from Zar-Guzisht (Mushtaq Ahmad Yousfi) and Zero Point (Javed Chaudhry)
Khaled Hosseini seems more like on propagation in favour of the US Agenda aainst Talibans and all and this is something which lessened the writer as well as the books to me.h
the book is in my closet for i dont know since when. Everytime I pick it to read, I cant. But your post is forsure tempting :k:
Khaled Hosseini seems more like on propagation in favour of the US Agenda aainst Talibans and all and this is something which lessened the writer as well as the books to me.h
I agree, but overall the books are good.
[you know how some girls go crazy and buy insane amounts of shoes, bags and makeup? i do that with books 
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Some problem here, not looking for a cure on this one though. 
I recently finished ‘Overheard in a dream’ by Torey Haydn which was so fascinating that I still haven’t finished ‘Northanger Abbey’ by Jane Austen which I was reading at the same time. Now while finishing that, I’ve also begun ‘The Tenko Club’ by Elizabeth Noble.
‘Northanger Abbey’ is funny. Catherine keeps imagining plots of books coming true and then in reality it’s nothing. She’s quite a silly but funny and kind person. I’m now in the final chapters and she’s staying with friends who live in Northanger Abbey. She imagines all kinds of dramatic and tragic events which had taken place in that building many years ago, before her friends family had bought it and made it their home.
Spoiler alert! Spoiler coming up as I quote a funny passage where she thinks she’s found a mystery, a secret, something from the past:
‘…when her eye suddenly fell on a large high chest, standing back in a deep recess on one side of the fireplace. The sight of it made her start; and, forgetting everything else, she stood gazing on it in motionless wonder, while these thoughts crossed her: “This is strange indeed! I did not expect such a sight as this! An immense heavy chest! What can it hold? Why should it be placed here? Pushed back too, as if meant to be out of sight! I will look into it—cost me what it may, I will look into it—and directly too—by daylight. If I stay till evening my candle may go out.”
(…)
Her resolute effort threw back the lid, and gave to her astonished eyes the view of a white cotton counterpane, properly folded, reposing at one end of the chest in undisputed possession!’
Then that same evening:
‘…on giving a parting glance round the room, she was struck by the appearance of a high, old-fashioned black cabinet, which, though in a situation conspicuous enough, had never caught her notice before.
(…)
her quick eyes directly fell on a roll of paper pushed back into the further part of the cavity, apparently for concealment, and her feelings at that moment were indescribable. Her heart fluttered, her knees trembled, and her cheeks grew pale. She seized, with an unsteady hand, the precious manuscript, for half a glance sufficed to ascertain written characters; and while she acknowledged with awful sensations this striking exemplification of what Henry had foretold, resolved instantly to peruse every line before she attempted to rest.’
But her candle goes out and without light she can’t read and has to wait impatiently until morning:
‘Her greedy eye glanced rapidly over a page. She started at its import. Could it be possible, or did not her senses play her false? An inventory of linen, in coarse and modern characters, seemed all that was before her! If the evidence of sight might be trusted, she held a washing-bill in her hand. She seized another sheet, and saw the same articles with little variation; a third, a fourth, and a fifth presented nothing new. Shirts, stockings, cravats, and waistcoats faced her in each. Two others, penned by the same hand, marked an expenditure scarcely more interesting, in letters, hair-powder, shoe-string, and breeches-ball. And the larger sheet, which had enclosed the rest, seemed by its first cramp line, “To poultice chestnut mare”—a farrier’s bill! Such was the collection of papers (left perhaps, as she could then suppose, by the negligence of a servant in the place whence she had taken them) which had filled her with expectation and alarm, and robbed her of half her night’s rest! She felt humbled to the dust. Could not the adventure of the chest have taught her wisdom? A corner of it, catching her eye as she lay, seemed to rise up in judgment against her. Nothing could now be clearer than the absurdity of her recent fancies. To suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained undiscovered in a room such as that, so modern, so habitable!—Or that she should be the first to possess the skill of unlocking a cabinet, the key of which was open to all!’
well, thanks! sure, the few pages wont be as interesting, even i found them average, but i guess as you go more into it, the book becomes magical. and specially the last few pages…somehow i feel bad that now, so many years after the years it was set in ( 3 years during the Great Depression), Scout, Jem, Atticus, Ms Maudie, Dill..no longer exist even though they never did in the first place.
but the book was supposed to be a bit autobiographical though.
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I am reading the Kite Runner.
I just finished reading "The Brethren" by John Grisham its a good read.
I am reading the Kite Runner.
How you finding it? Have you seen the film? Book is much better :)
I'm reading Piece Of Cake by Swati Kaushal.
its chick flick set in india, funny and romantic. nearly finished lol.
i cant believe ive only just seen this thread, im a complete bookworm! glad i saw it phew :)
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i 
this thread
so many books to read, such little time…
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Arthur Conan Doyle stories about Sherlock Holmes
How are these books? Saw them in bookstore but i wasn’t if I should get them. Please let us know 