Around the World in Books

Giveaway

2009-06-16T13:56:00.005-04:00

Sweeps4Bloggers is having a giveaway for Obama's Blackberry..Check it out!! Click the picture to go the blog giveaway link :)

Awards

2009-06-07T02:06:00.010-04:00

I would love to thank Trin of Bloody Bad Book Blog for presenting me with the One Lovely Blog Award. Please do keep visiting :)

Here is the explanation of the award,

"One Lovely Blog Award goes to new blogs and blogging friends.
The rules are: Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who granted the award and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you've newly discovered, but atleast 5"

I would like to award this to:

Ramya's Bookshelf
J. Kaye's Book Blog
Peeking Between the Pages
A Novel Menagerie
S. Krishna's Books
The Literate Housewife Review

Orbis Terrarum 2009!!!

2009-05-29T23:59:00.005-04:00

This sounds like a really interesting challenge. Check it out at Bethany's blog!!

My Reads:-

1. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - Germany
2. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Spain
3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Columbia

My Favourite Things

2009-05-28T23:06:00.003-04:00

Favourite Quotes:

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. "~ Ernest Hemingway

"A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end.You should live several lives while reading it."~ William Styron

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. " ~ Anna Quindlen

"Reading makes immigrants of us all.It takes us away from home, but more important,it finds homes for us everywhere."~ Hazel Rochman

"Book lovers will understand me,and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence."~ Jan Morris

2009 100+ Books Challenge List

2009-05-28T19:19:00.020-04:00

This is the first challenge I am participating in. I love reading, but somehow never got around to blogging or participating in challenges. But I am all set to give my first challenge a try :)

The following is the list of books I will read. Will update the progress and add more books as I go along.

My List:-

Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
A Thousand Country Roads by Robert James Waller
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Slow Waltz in Cedar bend by Robert James Waller
On Writing: A memoir of the craft by Stephen King