To Whom It May Concern, I have been nominated by Fouad Khan to...... I have never been nominated for anything before so excuse me for being so excited during the acceptance speech. But I digress, goosebumps and all. So the nomination (I can definitely get used to this nomination thing. aint Facebook grand) is to throw a bucket full of books on my head while being video taped. Or is it to visit the nearest book store and do that to its very first customer :) Let me think about that a second. Meanwhile here is a list of some of the books that have been a valuable addition to my life. Dastaan-e-Amir Hamza (World’s first magical fantasy - the Urdu version). Find Musharraf Ali Farooqis English translation of the same on Amazon. Silent Spring (Rachel Carson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger) Dust Bowl: Southern Plains in the 30s (Donald Worster) The Firm ( John Grisham) Kidnapped ( Robert L Stevenson) Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasakeran) Dark Continent: Europes Twentieth Century (Mark Mazower) Civil Society (Michael Edwards) The Double Helix (James Watson) The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) And last but not least The Unbook. This includes the likes of monthly Urdu magazines for kids like Nonehaal and Taleem o’Tarbiat that I devoured in my childhood. It includes the dozens of old readers digest and National Geographic at my grandfather’s place which I read cover to cover one boring summer. The colorful Urdu Atlas my Dad got me from Feroz Sons as a ten year old. And it includes hundreds of books which I skimmed at libraries, book shops and old book stalls. The Unbook epitomizes life itself, an unending telling of stories, events, happenings, lives lived, lives lost and lives forgotten. Now do I buy that bucket at the bookstore or what?
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:25:16 +0000
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