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1984 by George Orwell
Michael Crichton's next Infact just finished it
read few pages but couldn't stand it....sounds like a film script to me with it's foul language.
Isq and Mushq by Priya Basil
Isq and Musq by Priya Basil
After Shinoo mentioned this book in her blog I read it.
Its a wonderfull book, a must read!
Intro:
‘Take off your clothes, I want to see you’ Karam said. Just a few words, spoken like a caress made Sarna start wondering. Where did he learn such new and passionate techniques? When Sarna Singh leaves the lustrous green hills of Uganda for England, streets of cramped old houses were not what she was expecting. Husband Karam has been seduced by the historical feel of the city of London. Sarna, however, is convinced they have moved to England so he can visit his secret London lady friends. Sarna has a secret of her own, but she is adept at hiding it. She impresses her English teacher with her attempt at a cutglass accent, and copious gifts of delicious food. With two children to educate, money is scarce, and soon, she is devising weekly shoplifting expeditions to the supermarket. But all the while, Sarna is tormented by a mistake she made as a young woman in India. To stifle unwanted memories, she cooks zealously, sweetening her thoughts with syrup, or suffocating them with the hottest spice she can find. But when she receives an unexpected letter from back home, her assumed equilibrium is shattered to the skies. It carries an ultimatum she cannot ignore…Set on an epic backdrop from Partition, the Coronation and Churchill’s funeral, to the present day, Priya Basil explores with compassion, the universal complexities of vanity and love. Her sensuous portrayal of the trials and tribulations of the Singh family carries universal truths for all of us.
I got this book as a gift from a colleague
its called "What the body remembers" by Shauna Singh Baldwin
intro:
Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.
Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. So
she is elated to learn she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner in a union beneficial to both. For Sardaji's first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him children. Roop believes that she and Satya, still very much in residence, will be friends. But the relationship between the older and younger woman is far more complex. And, as India lurches toward independence, Sardarji struggles to find his place amidst the drastic changes.
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, What the Body Remembers is at once poetic, political, feminist, and sensual.
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I am reading Peer-e-Kaamil (SAW) once again
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All of these sound very intersting you guys.
Thanks! I now have a huge list!!!
:)
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Etiquette [A guide to modern manners] by Henry Russell
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Just finished reading
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
and am now nicely into Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens :)
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke.
One of my colleagues was shocked I hadn’t read it. He said it was totally my type of book and that I should go pick it up. We were out and I stopped by a bookstore, remembering his recommendation. I browsed the fiction section and it wasn’t there. I figured that was because it was a small bookstore. I double-checked with one of the employees anyway, and he said, “Oh if it’s here, it’ll be in Science Fiction.” I thought, “OMG everyone thinks I’m a geek! My husband has had a terrible influence on me!”. 
Anyway, so I got the book. It was there. I’m only through the first couple of pages. It’s good – about magicians in 1806 England. (Magic, 19th century England, really huge? – yeah, that’s definitely my type of book!)
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Intro :
The Kite Runner is the story of strained family relationships between a father and a son, and between two brothers, how they deal with guilt and forgiveness, and how they weather the political and social transformations of Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001. The Kite Runner opens in 2001. The adult narrator, Amir, lives in San Francisco and is contemplating his past, thinking about a boyhood friend whom he has betrayed. The action of the story then moves backward in time to the narrator’s early life in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is the only child of a privileged merchant. Amir’s closest friend is his playmate and servant Hassan, a poor illiterate boy who is a member of the Hazara ethnic minority. *
The Kite Runner*, a coming-of-age novel, deals with the themes of identity, loyalty, courage, and deception. As the protagonist Amir grows to adulthood, he must come to terms with his past wrongs and adjust to a new culture after leaving Afghanistan for the United States.
Salomé by Oscar Wilde (in french)
intro :
Salome (or in French: Salomé ) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather’s dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils.
and a book in french about commercial law …
omg me too. love that book..
have u read a thousand splendid suns?
I recently read The Twentieth Wife...........and LOVED it. It is soooooo well written. Its about a Mughal love story between Mehr-un-nissa and Prince Salim. And the best part is that it's based on actual historical facts. So in an entertaining way, you learn so much about Mughal history. Dang, those Mughals were crazy!!!! Let's just say they weren't as Muslim as they should have been.
I'm reading The Alchemist right now, and find it interesting:)
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**Veronika Decides To Die by Paulo Coelho
Intro:
Veronika, 24, works in a library in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and rents a room in a convent; she is an attractive woman with friends and family, but feelings of powerlessness and apathy tempt her to find "freedom" in an overdose of sleeping pills. When Veronika awakens in the purgatory of Villete, the country's famous lunatic asylum, she is told her suicide attempt weakened her heart and she has only days to live. At this point, Coelho takes a role in the novel; he describes the circumstances under which he discovered Veronika's story and then recounts his own youthful incarceration in a Brazilian sanatorium, consigned there by parents who couldn't understand his "unusual behavior." As quickly as he drops in, however, he drops out again, relying on interior monologues to set scenes. In a sedative-induced haze, Veronika finds companionship in white-haired Mari, who suffers from panic attacks, and Eduard, an ambassador's son who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and she begins to question the definition of insanity. It is her supposed death sentence from the devious Dr. Igor, who is trying to shock her back into reality, that allows Veronika to reacquire the will to live and love. Employing his trademark blend of religious and philosophical overtones, Coelho focuses on his central question: why do people go on when life seems unfair and fate indifferent? The simple, often banal prose contrasts Veronika's bleak inner landscape with the beautiful contours of Slovenia, gradually culminating in an upbeat ending with the message that each day of life is a miracle. Coelho's latest will appeal to readers who enjoy animated homilies about the worth of human existence.
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"3 mistakes of my life" by Chethan Bhagat...:)
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I have just started reading "The Devil and Miss Prym" by Paulo Coelho...
omg me too. love that book.. have u read a thousand splendid suns?
Yes, I am a big fan of Khaled Hosseini's books ! I read A Thousand Splendid Suns in french (" Milles soleil splendides), this book is very touching ! The writing of Hosseini is very poetic, very melancholic, soulful and hopeful! I think that Khaled Hosseini is always objective in his books and that is very rare in documents and books about Aghanistan in general ! I was touched by Amir and Hassan fate and I was touched again by Mariam and Leila story !
When you read this kind of books, you say " sun doesn't shine on everybody, how lucky I am".
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Paulo Coelho seems to be very popular..
and I’ve never read him..
Thats it — I know what I’m reading next. 
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i just finished reading grisham's 'rainmaker' wah
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Reading Shuja Nawaz's Crossed swords...after which "The hitchikers Guide to the galaxy" and then ...hopefully....The Lord Of the Rings!!!!