When I was young and printed books were the only way of reading, I used to underline or highlight the quotes I loved. That habit remains unchanged but what is additional is doing it virtually when I read books on my kindle or Apple Books. Some of my favourite quotes are from Harry Potter but…
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Day 16 – Favourite Female character
I love books with strong female characters. I actually feel kinship with strong women. So over the years I have read a lot of books with woman as the central character. In fact, one of my favourite books is “Becoming” by Michelle Obama. My favourite female character is Skeeter from The Help. This book is…
Day 15 – Favourite Male Character
I must admit I read a lot of books with strong female character. They do have male characters but mostly they are a co-actor rather than the centre of the story. My favourite male character is Harry Potter. I love how Rowling has given shades to his personality. He seems real and is not a…
Day 14 – Book turned movie and completely desecrated.
We know that books are a favourite with the movie makers. It makes complete commercial sense – you have a story and for a popular book you have ready made audience. Hence why we have so many best sellers that have been converted to movies. I usually like to read the book before I watch…
Day 13 – My favourite writer
This is a tough one! Over the years I have read so many books and loved so many writers, how do I choose my favourite? I think I am going to tackle it by the top few whose books I have enjoyed a d read multiple times! J.K.Rowling – I am a Harry Potter fan….
Day 12 – A book I love and hate at the same time!
I thought long and hard before writing this blog post. As I mentioned, I am a lover of books and there are very few books I dislike. So a book that stirs mi I tried to remember and I then knew the book that start these love-hate emotion in me – The Slap by Christos…
Day 10 – A book that reminds me of home
I have always been a book worm. In fact growing up, I used to spend most of my spare time in my room reading books. My sister and I used to spend all our pocket money, money received from relatives, birthday money etc on buying books. This was on top of the library books that…
Day 9 – A book I thought I wouldn’t like but ended up loving
There are a lot of books that have taken me by surprise. The book that comes to my mid based on the topic of today is A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford. I first heard about the book due to the controversy about the TV series with Karishma Kapoor which was based in…
Day 8 – Most overrated book
I follow multiple book lover groups on social media, goodreads etc. Most times people recommend a book and I jump on getting it as I always like to broaden my reading. That is what made me buy The Rosie Project. I started reading the book and just could not get into it. I did not…
Day 7 – A book that makes me laugh
If you were wondering why I had not written for the past few days, it is coz I have been on a mini break – we went to south coast for a holiday. It was hard to write there. So for the next few days, I will be writing two blogs a day till I…