Picked up Chitra Divakaruni's latest..'Queen of dreams'...and surprisingly Im liking it...I say surprisingly because I had a feeling I wont like it...When I started with her books, I liked her work...somewhere down the line maybe it became repititive
..maybe the way it happened with Danielle Steele..
During my college days , I started reading DS.. in my hometown there are no english novels to be found...except for the library ...and that was too insufficient for my voracious reading appetite...every bombay/pune trip I used to visit the churchgate book sellers/book lane..and get all books possible withing my spending budget...
neways....so somewhere along that time I grew out of DS...moved on...
but...Divakaruni still can capture my attention.. Im really savouring this one..
One more reason of my apprehensions might be the fact that , when I heard of Aishwarya rai being casted as the main character , I was very disappointed...How could Divakaruni let this happen...Dimple...or Dipti naval would have been perfect for such a role, I think !
How one thought twines in another...casts a shadow...clouds judgements...
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My Shelfari Bookshelf
March 2006 reads
- 23.The last song of dusk , by Siddharth Sanghvi
- 22.The Historian, by Elizabeth Kotsova
- 21.No Great Michief , by Alistair MacLeod
- 20.The Pearl Diver , by Jeff Talarigo
- 19.The Householder, by Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
- 18.Waiting, by Ha Jin
- 17.The secret life of bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
- 16.Saturday , by Ian McEwan
Jan 2006 reads
- 11.Chronicles of a death foretold , by Gabriel Garcia M
- 10.Song of the Cuckoo Bird , by Amulya Malladi
- 8.An Artist of the Floating World , by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 7.The Inner Courtyard , by Indian Women
- 6.Reef , by Romesh Gunesekera
- 5.Parnassus on Wheels , by Christopher Morley
- 4.The Lover , by Marguerite Duras
- 3.The Blue Bedspread , by Raj Kamal Zha
- 2.Shahnaaz, by Hiro Boga
- 1.Pale View of hills , by Kazuo Ishiguro
2005 reads
- Never Let me Go , by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , by Douglas Adams
- Eleven Minutes , by Paulo Coelho
- Dept of Denials , by Anurag Mathur
- The Brides Kimono , by Sujata Massey
- American Pastoral , by Philip Roth
- Maharani , by Elaine Williams
- Mistress , by Anita Nair
- That Long Silence , by Shashi Deshpande
- Night train at Deoli , by Ruskin Bond
- 44 Scotland Street , by Alexander Smith
- In the company of cheerful ladies , by Alexander Smith
- Queen of Dreams , by Chitra Divakaruni
- Small Remedies , by Shashi Deshpande
- The Binding Vine , Shashi Deshpande
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli , by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Kite Runner , by Khaled Hosseini
- Shantaram , by Gregory David Roberts
- The Time Travelers wife , by Audrey Niffenegger
- My name is Red , by Orhan Pamuk
- Morality for Beautiful Girls , by Alexander Smith
- Catcher in the Rye , by J D Sallinger
- Tears of the Giraffe , by Alexander Smith
- The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency , by Alexander Smith
- Love in Blue time , by Hanif Kureishi
- HP and the Half Blood Prince, by J K Rowling
- Forbidden Love , by Norma Khouri
- Mostly Harmless , by Douglas Adams
- End of the Days , by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Daughters of Arabia , by Jean Sasson
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , by Mark Haddon
- Enduring Love , by Ian McEwan
- Not Without My daughter , by Betty Mahmoody
- Harem Within , by Fatima Mernissi
- Exodus , by Leon Uris
- A breath of Fresh Air , by Amulya Malladi
- Line of Beauty , by Alan Hollinghurst(Couldnt finish !)
- Unconsoled , by Kazuo Ishiguro(unfinished)
- When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Buddha of Suburbia, by Hanif Kureishi
- Zen Attitude , by Sujata Massey
Sep 2006 reads
- 88. The Bridegroom (SS), by Ha Jin
- 87. Kitchen , by Banana Yoshimoto
- 86. Breakfast at Tiffany's , by Truman Capote
- 85. Girl in a box , by Sujata Massey
- 84. Between a wok and hard place, by Tamar Myers
- 83. The space between us , by Thrity Umrigar
- 82. Alias Grace , by Margaret Atwood
- 81. A virtuous woman , by Kaye Gibbons
- 80. Ellen Foster , by Kaye Gibbons
- 79. The Mermaid chair , by Sue Monk Kidd
- 78. Inheritance of Loss , by Kiran desai
- 77. Empress , by Shan Sa
- 76. Just in Case , by Meg Rosoff
- 75. My Antonia , by Willa Cather
Feb 2006 reads
- 15.The answer is Yes , by Sara Lewis
- 14.A Town like Alice, by Nevil Shute
- 13.Salaryman's wife, by Sujata Massey
- 12.We need to talk about Kevin , by Lionel Shriver
2006 movies
- Matchpoint ***
- Bewitched ***
- RV ****
- Under the Greenwood tree **
- Ordinary People ***
- Omakara ****
- My Super ex-Girlfriend ***
- Something New ***
- Rumor has it **
- Prime ***
- Walk the line ***
- Dancer in the Dark (Bjork) ***
- The umbrellas of Cherbourgh ***
- Fargo ***
- Red ***
- Blanc (White) ****
- Napolean Dynamite ***
- Failure To Launch **
- Paradise Now ***
- 8 Femmes(Women)***
- The Great Gatsby ***
- Everything is Illuminated ***
- Office Space ***
- Devil Wears Prada ***
- Indochine ****
- Good Night & Good Luck ******
- Annie Hall, Woodie Allen
- Zakhm
- The Pianist
- Pink Panther
- Munich
- The Bee Season
- Mighty Aphrodite , Woody Allen
- Brokeback mountain
- Layer Cake
- 40 year old virgin
- Love and death , Woody Allen
June 2006 reads
- 44.Homeland, by Barbara Kingsolver
- 43.Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson(Unfinished..)
- 42.Reading Lolita in Teheran, by Azar Nafisi
- 41.A short history of tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
- 40.Pigs in Heaven , by Barabara Kingslover
- 39.The Royal Ghosts, by Samrat Upadhyay
- 38.Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close , by Jonathan Safran Foer
- 37.The Bean Trees , by Barabara Kingsolver
- 36.Without Blood , by Alessandro Baricco
- 35.The Great Gatsby , by F Scott Fitzergald
- 34.Funny Boy , by Shyam Selvadurai
- 33.Sputnik Sweetheart , by Haruki Murakami
- 32.Vanishing Acts , by Jodi Picault
- 31.The Mango Season, by Amulya Malladi
- 30.A return journey , by Maeve Binchy
- 29.A wild sheep chase , by Haruki Murakami
April 2006 reads
- 26.Come up and be dead, by Shashi Deshpande
- 25.Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
- 24.Kafka on the shore, by Haruki Murakami
Aug 2006 reads
- 74. Alentejo Blue , by Monica Ali
- 73. Carry Me Down , by M J Hyland
- 72. Prodigal Summer , by Barbara Kingsolver
- 71. Carry Me down , by M J Hyland
- 70. Espresso Tales , by Alexander Mccall Smith
- 69. How I live now , by Meg Rosoff
- 68. A girl named Zippy , by Haven Kimmel
- 67. Shiva Dancing , by Bharti Kirchner
- 66. The Glimpse of the moon , by Edith Wharton
- 65. Dance, Dance, Dance , by Haruki Murakami
- 64. The Age of Innocence , by Edith Wharton
- 63.Sharmila's book , by Bharti Kirchner
- 62.Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
July 2006 reads
- 61.Flowers in the attic , by V C Andrews
- 60.Bombay Time , by Thrity Umrigar
- 59. Midaq alley , by Naquib Mahfouz
- 58.House of Mirth , by Edith Wharton
- 57.Eve Green , by Susan Fletcher
- 56.Blue Shoes and Happiness , by Alexander McCall Smith
- 55.The girl in blue , by P G Wodehouse
- 54.The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
- 53.Side Effects , by Woody Allen
- 52.Not that sort of a girl , by Mary Wesley
- 51.South of the border, West of the Sun , by Haruki Murakami
- 50.Hey Nostradamus! , by Douglas Coupland
- 49.The Typhoon Lover , by Sujata Massey
- 48.The Pearl Diver , by Sujata Massey
- 47.The Samurai's Daughter, by Sujata Massey
- 46.The Bell Jar , by Sylvia Plath
- 45.Animal Dreams , by Barbara Kingsolver
To read
- Lolita , by Vladimir Nabokov
- Jonathan Strange and Norrell , by Susanna Clarke
May 2006 reads
- 28.History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
- 27.Wind-up bird chronicle , by Haruki Murakami
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