Tag: reading
member name: gautami tripathy
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September 27, 2007 10:10 AM EDT --
When do you read it? What poets? Any favourites?
Do you need a particular mood to read poetry?
I can read it at any time. But when I am down and out, I read more of it. I love Pablo Neruda, . . .
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November 10, 2007 12:29 PM EST --
My Own Little Reading Room
Would you say that you read about the same amount now as when you were younger? More? Less? Why?
When I was in school, I used to read a book a day. All the . . .
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December 03, 2007 08:27 AM EST --
"Do you get on a roll , while reading where one book leads to the next, and so on?"
At any given time, I am reading three books. They are as diverse as can be. However, after reading . . .
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December 28, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
I joined many reading challenges this year. Some of those focussed my reading habits. Not that it mattered to me how I was reading before as long I had a book in my hand! This year, I have read lesser . . .
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October 06, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
Do you have problem with too much vulgarity or overly explicit scenes in books? Do you take them in stride?
I usually do not read romances. When I am in the mood to read one, which is rare nowadays, . . .
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September 23, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
Title: My Sister’s Keeper
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 13: 9781416549148
Publisher: Atria Books
Genre/Pages: Fiction/500
Very surprising that I had not read any Jodi Picoult before this. I have . . .
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June 09, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
I am in dire need of Canadian books as those are not as easily available in India apart from Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. I only got 2 out 13 to be read for The 2nd Canadian book Challenge Eh? . . .
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August 24, 2006 03:01 PM EDT --
John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" is a fascinating book that traces out story of two generations of two families whose lives are somehow interlinked. We can say that its by chance rather than . . .
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October 01, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
First weeks of Jan, April, July and Oct are BAFAB weeks.
That is when you buy a book for your friend for no reason. Just like that.
" promote reading, promote friendships" That is the idea! . . .
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December 21, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
Disclaimer: I have only reviewed the book. I am yet to follow it through.
Title: The Ultimate Tea Diet
Author: Mark "dr. tea" Ukra with Sharyn Kolberg
ISBN: 9780061441752 . . .
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September 28, 2007 06:34 AM EDT --
Buy a Friend a Book Week is October 1-7 (as well as the first weeks of January, April, and July). During this week, you’re encouraged to buy a friend a book for no good reason. Not for their birthday, . . .
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October 04, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
Title: The Handmaid’s Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 0770428207
Publisher: Seal Books
Genre: Fiction/388 pages
The Handmaid’s Tale is my first book by Atwood. It kept lingering in my . . .
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December 13, 2007 07:43 AM EST --
Title: For the Love of Rachel
Author: David Loewenstein
ISBN: 0979194342
Publisher: Enalan Communications
Pages: 147
David offered this book and I won it from here in a draw. . . .
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December 15, 2007 12:34 PM EST --
Title: Sunset Embrace
Author: Sandra Brown
ISBN: 0446356859
Publisher: Warner Brothers
Genre: Historical Romance
Pages: 360/Paperback
I picked this up from one of my friend's . . .
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June 06, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
Title: Roots
Author: Alex Haley
ISBN: 9780099362814
Publisher: Vintage Boooks/1977
Pages: 688
Sometimes it is not easy to talk about a book which leaves one thinking. It is a fat . . .
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January 01, 2008 05:32 AM EST --
Title: Salem Falls
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN-13: 978074318713
Publisher: Washington Square Press/2001
Pages: 434
Salem Falls is the last book I read in the last day of 2007. It was a . . .
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January 18, 2008 11:34 AM EST --
http://readingandmorereading.blogspot.com/
Title: Kafka on theShore
Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN-10: 1-400-7927-6
Publisher: Vintage International/2005
Pages: 467 . . .
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February 04, 2008 07:03 AM EST --
Clay Jensen receives a package with no return address. When he opens it, he finds seven cassette tapes. Those have been recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate who had committed suicide two weeks ago. . . .
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January 03, 2008 07:10 AM EST --
Title: Picture Perfect
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9780425185508
Publisher: Berkley Books/1995
Pages: 369
A woman loses her memory and is found by a cop, Will Flying . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:01 AM EST --
Title: Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman
ISBN-13: 9780380789016
ISBN-10: 0380789019
Publisher: HarperTorch/1997
Pages: 370
I came to know of Neil Gaiman from the blog world. I . . .
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