I have been tagged for this 10 Books Thing that is going around on Facebook by a number of people and I am slightly confused as to what 10 books these are supposed to be. 10 of my all-time favourite books? 10 books that changed my life? 10 books I keep rereading? I’m not sure. So I will put together a list of 10 books that are very close to my heart. Quite a few of these are a bit obscure, so I will also put down why I like them, under the list. So here goes the list: 1. A Little Princess & The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 2. Little Women – L.M. Alcott 3. The Wayside School series – Louis Sachar 4. What Goes up Must Come Down (aka Hot & Cold Summer) - Johanna Hurwitz 5. Deewan-e-Ghalib – Mirza Ghalib 6. Dunya Gol Hai – Ibn Inca 7. Travels with a Tangerine – Tim Mackintosh Smith 8. God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy 9. Secrets of the Tsil Café – Thomas Fox Averill 10. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking And this is why I love these books so much: * A Little Princess & The Secret Garden, Little Women – Classic children’s literature, so not much needs to be said. Still love them as a grown up. * The Wayside School series – Discovered entirely by accident and so beloved that it went on to inspire my own series of Gul Parosha stories that were published in Dawn Young World between 1995 and 1998 * What Goes up Must Come Down (aka Hot & Cold Summer) - Another childhood favourite that spelt the following to me: summer, freedom, friendship, adventure. *Deewan-e-Ghalib – Perhaps the best poetry ever written in our language. * Dunya Gol Hai – My first exposure to travel literature, as a child, and probably what incubated my love for travel and for travel literature. * Travels with a Tangerine – My first experience of really, really good and educated travel literature, which got me totally hooked on to the gene that is now my favourite. * God of Small Things – I love this book for the vivid and beautiful imagery it evokes. Roy make something so tragic so beautiful, and something imaginary so tangible. * Secrets of the Tsil Café – The first book I read where food was a central theme. It’s one of the main themes of my life, and here was a genre that gave it the importance it deserved. I could eat this bookA * A Brief History of Time – When I learned about Hawking’s theories on time travel and black holes, my mind was blown. Probably the only science type book I ever enjoyed, though. The list is in no way a fair representation of the book I love, though. I love almost everything by Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Stephen King, Bill Bryson, Paulo Coelho. I also loved a lot of the new literature I read this year: the Hunger Games and Divergent trilogies, The Fault in Our Stars, The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night, all the Mitch Albom books. OK, you know what, I can’t do this. I love books. Almost all of them. Maybe it would be easier to make a list of book I don’t like. 1. I don’t like “ye olde” books . You know what I mean. The strange stuff we were exposed to in the name of literature while at school. Shakespeare? Can’t stand the dude. Wouldn’t hurt me a bit if I his work vanished off the face of the earth. The though of reading him makes me want to gag. 2. English poetry. I haaaaaaate English poetry. Ugh, Can. Not. 3. Also, a lot of the old Jane Eyre type books. No. Just no. Anything with swooning female protagonists. Eugh. 4. I don’t like self-help/motivational books. I prefer to read that stuff in the form of short articles online. I can talk about books all day, so I’ll just stop right here. Thanks for tagging me, guys ^_^
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 05:25:58 +0000
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