YEAR OF SELF INTROSPECTION AND BOOK READING
2017 is coming to an end. A brand new year is just peeping in, from around the corners. Now is the time to recollect what we have done in the past year – where we have been wrong, what needed mending. There had been umpteen numbers of times when I felt dejected, felt as if it’s a hard life. But what has sustained me throughout has always been BOOKS. ALWAYS.
There are always some books which you read because someone said that, ‘Read it. I’m sure you’ll like it’. And there are some, those award winners, which you just get curious about. In the first category, so far as I am concerned, falls DAN BROWN’S ORIGIN. My cousin had recommended it. I would go further to recommend it all readers and followers of this immensely gifted thriller novelist. Travel bug has had me on my toes for as long as I can remember. I had explored many corners of the world with my parents. Spain is a country, as depicted in this book, has a magnetic appeal. The country, especially its museums have found a gargantuan place in Dan Brown’s psyche.
In the second category, falls Arundhati Roy’s THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS. I am not certain whether the book has won an award. But it deserved accolades, which of course comes along anything that Roy pens. But frankly, I had enjoyed her earlier novel, which won her the Booker Prize, much more. Here her social activism, her radical thoughts and her unconventional choice of subject are more highlighted. Needless to say here that I read The God of Small Things once more, after reading her second novel. I read a lot of Jeffrey Archer novels and short stories. This year had not been an exception to this rule. I have also read a few collections of Ruskin Bond’s collection of short stories. But what I would like to recommend on my behalf is a book which perhaps some of you must have already read. It’s by Agatha Christie, the Dame of crime fiction. MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a book which will appeal to readers of all ages. My mother, a discerning reader herself, found the book to be a delightful read. I myself found it to be full of an old world charm, extinct in modern days.
I am an ardent follower of Jhumpa Lahiri’s penmanship. I found her IN OTHER WORDS, which expresses her love for Italy and the Italian language, to be quite interesting. Her lucid prose and readability which I feel, flows like a mountain stream, catches the readers’ attention and keeps it riveted until you reach the last page.
These have been the few of my favourite books from this year. The coming year seems to be full of promises and hope. But I intend to stick to my first love, as always. And that is undoubtedly book reading.
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2017 is coming to an end. A brand new year is just peeping in, from around the corners. Now is the time to recollect what we have done in the past year – where we have been wrong, what needed mending. There had been umpteen numbers of times when I felt dejected, felt as if it’s a hard life. But what has sustained me throughout has always been BOOKS. ALWAYS.
There are always some books which you read because someone said that, ‘Read it. I’m sure you’ll like it’. And there are some, those award winners, which you just get curious about. In the first category, so far as I am concerned, falls DAN BROWN’S ORIGIN. My cousin had recommended it. I would go further to recommend it all readers and followers of this immensely gifted thriller novelist. Travel bug has had me on my toes for as long as I can remember. I had explored many corners of the world with my parents. Spain is a country, as depicted in this book, has a magnetic appeal. The country, especially its museums have found a gargantuan place in Dan Brown’s psyche.
In the second category, falls Arundhati Roy’s THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS. I am not certain whether the book has won an award. But it deserved accolades, which of course comes along anything that Roy pens. But frankly, I had enjoyed her earlier novel, which won her the Booker Prize, much more. Here her social activism, her radical thoughts and her unconventional choice of subject are more highlighted. Needless to say here that I read The God of Small Things once more, after reading her second novel. I read a lot of Jeffrey Archer novels and short stories. This year had not been an exception to this rule. I have also read a few collections of Ruskin Bond’s collection of short stories. But what I would like to recommend on my behalf is a book which perhaps some of you must have already read. It’s by Agatha Christie, the Dame of crime fiction. MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY is a book which will appeal to readers of all ages. My mother, a discerning reader herself, found the book to be a delightful read. I myself found it to be full of an old world charm, extinct in modern days.
I am an ardent follower of Jhumpa Lahiri’s penmanship. I found her IN OTHER WORDS, which expresses her love for Italy and the Italian language, to be quite interesting. Her lucid prose and readability which I feel, flows like a mountain stream, catches the readers’ attention and keeps it riveted until you reach the last page.
These have been the few of my favourite books from this year. The coming year seems to be full of promises and hope. But I intend to stick to my first love, as always. And that is undoubtedly book reading.
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