Context:
Maverick. He got me.
Background:
bib·li·o·phile
also bib·li·o·phil (-fl) or bib·li·oph·i·list (bbl-f-lst) n.
~ A lover of books.
~ A collector of books.
bibli·ophi·lism n. bibli·ophi·listic adj.
So here goes.
Books I own:
Quanta mean nothing. It's the flavour that counts.
To create frog's book cupboard, start with a solid grounding of Little Women... The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh... All the Mowgli Stories, the classics... muchos Enid Blyton (end to end)... William... Jules Verne and HG Wells... Satyajit Ray... Tolkien... Gerald Durrell... Tales from Long Ago.
Add juice of Alistair Maclean, Louis L'amour, Michael Crichton, Ken Follett, Ludlum. Fold and pour in essence of Maya Angelou, Simone de Beauvouir, Ayn Rand, Margaret Atwood, Steinbeck, Updike.
Generously add Agatha Christie, Paul Auster, Peter Hoeg and Muchael Cunningham; Garcia Marquez, Blake and Neruda, Antoine de St. Exupery, Richard Bach, Grahame Greene, Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee.
Sprinkle chopped Ian McEwan, Pico Iyer, Alexander Frater, Paul Theroux and add a pinch of Roald Dahl and Saki.
Garnish with Watterson, Goscinny and Uderzo, Rowling, Fielding and Hornby and store in bottles away from light and dust to take out and sun twice a year. Pore over when putting back. For best results, open and sniff on long cool afternoons with the sun shaded behind curtains at windows opening onto green leaf sunshine, or in the still night when the house slumbers deep and a sleepy dog cocks one ear at the sound of the cupboard door being opened and settles in for a long night of it.
Still want numbers?
Last few books I bought:
Clearly, the last few memorable books I've bought
1. Maximum City - Suketu Mehta
2. Couples - John Updike
3. Leviathan
4. Agatha Christie - Autobiography
Last book that was gifted to me:
The IDEO book
Last book(s) I've read:
1. Maximum City
2. My Family and Other Animals (for the umpteenth time)
3. High Fidelity
4. Cause Celeb
5. Bodily Harm
6. Euclid's Window - The story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace
7. Impossibility - The Science of Limits and The Limits of Science (again)
Five books that mean something to me:
1. Congo (For reasons I can't fathom. And even on the 100th reading, it's un-put-downable)
2. To Kill A Mockingbird.
3. Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow.
4. Little Women
5. 100 Years of Solitude
6. Winnie-the-Pooh
6. Agatha Christie - Autobiography
7. A Home at the End of the World
(I know, I know, I can't count...)
Books I plan to read soon
1. If, on a winter's night...
2. Siddhartha
And finally, people I hope will respond to the clarion call:
Kraz
Yesbob
Boogerballs
Pranav
Mobius Tripping
Meanwhile, a parting thought.
The universe is not made from atoms, but from stories.
4 comments:
what am i supposed to do here? the only information i have is that i have been tagged
books i love the most - hitchhiker's...and 1984.
thats my horizon...but i responded to your call.
where are you now?
hi progga
u have a quite interesting read, though, righnow my choice of books are completely different.
Sidhartha is a great book and I realy enjoyed it. So great pick for you. To Kill a Mockingbird, 100 years fo Solitude are two books in your list, which I admire tremendously. You should also go for Marquez autobiography "Living to tell the tale" great work..
You should have seen my jaw drop at the list. To kill a Mockingbird is incidentally the last book I read, no wait it was The Monk who sold his Ferrari..eitherway, I am but a fledgeling.
In response to your call..
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