Tag-o-mania again. This time I have been book tagged by Prabha and Somu.
So..here we go again..
Total Number of Books I own
Around 250-300
Total number of books given to others and never came back
90-100:(
Total number E-Books
241
Last Book I bought
Hotel - Arthur Hailey
(I’d read this one eons ago and wanted to add it to my collection)
Last Book I was gifted
The Broker- John Grisham
Grave Secrets – Kathy Reichs
I purchased these 2 books with the Crossword gift Voucher I got when I won the 1st Prize in an essay-writing competition conducted by my school. The topic was, ‘Strategies for adults to influence student behaviour’
(There… I finally bragged about it)
Last Book I read
Deception Point- Dan Brown
I am currently reading
Nothing.. save my morning daily
Five Books that mean a lot to me
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
I must have read this book around 100 times over a period of 2 years when I was 10 -11. It was my best friend for that period, and helped me to walk away unscathed from a certain phase in my life.
The Harry Potter Series- J.K Rowling
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
As the Crow Flies- Jeffrey Archer
My favourite rags to riches story
Messages from the Masters - Dr. Brian Weiss
I have always been enamoured of occult theories like past lives, reincarnations etc. and was totally zapped by this book and the other titles written by the same author.
3 books I started reading, but never completed
1. Flash Mx 2003.or was it 2004? Tech is simply not my cup of tea.
2. A monk who sold his Ferrari (Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
3. The Power of Now- Eckhart
Book that made zero sense to me
My Accounts textbooks when I went through a 3 year-old nightmare called B.Com
My most treasured books
Reader’s Digest (1955)
Blackstone’s Tricks you can do (1948)
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1955)
I have a penchant for collecting old books, and these are a part of my prized collection
Who am I gonna tag ?
Swetank
Sudheer
Shub
Kanishka
Xena
Nupur
Selwa
Shantanu
Ram
Venky
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And finally it’s that time of the year, when we want to have sizzling pakoras and nearly scathing coffee, sit by the window and watch the rains or read a book and listen to your favourite barsaat/saawan songs..
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Cinnamon is back after a long break during which she got marriedJ
Came across Swetank’s blog and was awed by his poetry… Simply amazing...a must-see must- read blog..
Just purchased "The Monk who sold his ferrari". Yet to read it. I hope its not that bad.....
ReplyDeleteSangeeta, Pretty interesting books, very different from the rest I have seen in other blogs.
ReplyDeleteIt should be pretty cool to own those 1955 books.
Guess what? Last week I was helping my brother to relocate and he had packed this collection of Readers Digest.. I looked at them and asked him if he really means to carry those books. Seeing the look on my face, he said I can throw those away. Looking back, I think I made a mistake.
Shall respond to your tagging later this week.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteTech is not your cup of tea...
Books like these aint mine...
90-100 books given away ... That sounds generous enuf...
ReplyDeleteMa'm can you lend me a book...???
Favorite song: "Rimzim Gire Sawan, sulag sulag Jaye man.." by Kishore Kumar!
ReplyDeleteThe outskirts of Pune are amazingly beautiful in this season!
~ Cheers ~
hello Sangeets,
ReplyDeleteMonk who sold..seems to be the favourite unfavourite book ;-) hated it..didnt even finish it..
Accounts?I had one paper in my final year and oh hell!
Essay writing competition in school for students?cool!
yaar u cant learn Flash from books... Just install and work... See the tutorial if somethin doesnt make much sense...
ReplyDeleteHi Sangeeta - Got Swetanks link from here - fundoo fellow - also will take up this tag
ReplyDeleteGreat post - enjoy the rain
hmm.... book tags everywhere.. :)
ReplyDelete"Literaly" tagged. Liked that !
ReplyDeletepleasure to come across a harry potter fan..
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this now I remember I also have to write about this.....;)
ReplyDeleteSigh. I was like trying to answer the "tag" thingy... And guess what.. I don't even own a book and it's been eons since I last read. What a dumbo! Oh, maybe a bimbo?
ReplyDeletePs: I like your entries.