Book Baton
Iroms passed me a book baton. 
Number of Books on the Shelf
I’m a total book maniac. I buy books wherever I go..I have a weird constant need to be surrounded by books,just like I need to surrounded by people and I always have to be reading something. So there?! I have waay too many to count,everything ranging from fairy tales to enid blytons to harry potters to novels to advanced maths books to readers digests..a more appropriate question would have been how many book shelves?!!
Last Book Purchased
Distant Warriors by Channa Wickremasekara (I bought it today!!!)
Book Reading Right Now
I finished reading Once Upon A Tender Time by Carl Muller and started on Distant Warriors by Channa Wickremamsekara.
Once Upon A Tender Time, a lurid tale,very well narrated in a semi auto biographical sense gives a most raw insight to Burgher community of Sri Lanka in the pre/immediate post independence era. Honestly a bit too ‘truthful’ and sexually vivid for my tastes!
Distant Warriors is a story set in the Sri Lankan Community of Australia and tells the story of how much the ethnic conflict has affect the current older generation. Honestly, I cant comment on it, having only read the 1st two chapters at the time of writing this.
Last 5 Books Read
1. Once Upon a Tender Time - Carl Muller
2. Flower Boy - Karen Roberts
3. Anil’s Ghost – Micheal Ondaatje
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
5. A Beautiful Mind – Sylvia Nasar
Books That Mean A lot to Me
Anil’s Ghost by Micheal Ondaatje.
One of the most beautifully narrated books that I have read, it had me gripped from the first word. A prose couldn’t have possibly been more insightful or true and for some strange reason, every time I read it, I find myself relating better to the character of Anil more and more.
Brick Lane by Monica Ali.
Kept me going through a rather adventurous trip around England and it addresses the very cause that I’m dead against.
Sophie’s World
Philosophy couldn’t have been better served than in here. Even though it got slightly boring a few times it taught me a hell of a lot.
The Famous Five and Malory Towers series by Enid Blyton
Both these series which actually contain about 27 books altogether have been read and re –read so many times and there are undoubtedly the biggest fictional influences in my preteen life.
Have you read ‘July’ by Karen Roberts?
It’s as good or maybe even better than ‘Flower Boy’. I must say Flower Boy was one of those books where you get to the last page and go “ahhhhhh what the heck!?!?! that’s it?!! is there gonna be a sequal??? ohhh maaaan! Now i’m gonna be wondering what happened….”. Though books like these may seem irritating, it’s nice sometimes to ponder many happy endings yourself.
YAY! GO ENID BLYTON!!
My husband and I grew up on opposite sides of the world but when we met 20+ years later- the fact that we had such a love for Enid Blyton was the subject of many loooooooooooooong conversations….
Anyway, don’t wanna get carried away so I better get goin,
Ciao,
Dugi
Comment by Dugi — September 8, 2005 @ 9:59 pm
yeah I have read July and I actually quite liked it..Itsa great book and very well written,personally I think its better than flowerboy and yeah I must admit I was rather disappointed when I reached the end of flowerboy
but then there really cant be a sequal to that isnt it?!!
hehe yeah Enid Blyton rocks doesnt she?! she is just one hell of a lady…and its just amazing to see that there is so many of us who grew up basically making these books our daily bread…
Comment by Administrator — September 9, 2005 @ 8:41 pm