tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72119667260442027522011-08-06T02:10:06.896-07:00Pratima Nagaraj (Pratima Jayaram)noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211966726044202752.post-30611847756955410972008-12-20T02:04:00.000-08:002008-12-20T02:30:45.970-08:00<a href="http://pratima-jayaram.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Mind Over Matter</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span></strong><br />If you have enjoyed reading this blog, then do visit my other blog 'Mind Over Matter'<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7211966726044202752-3061184775695541097?l=reading-adventures-index.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pratima Nagaraj (Pratima Jayaram)noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211966726044202752.post-86119011000241074302008-12-20T01:35:00.001-08:002009-04-13T08:58:17.269-07:00The list of books that I would love to read or currently in the pipeline...<br />If you have any recommendations, do leave me a comment in the comment section below<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#33ccff;"><strong>1. The white tiger - Aravind Adiga (done)<br /></strong></span></span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#000000;">2. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson &amp; David Oliver Relin<br />3. Stay Hungry Stay foolish - Rashmi Bansal<br /><span style="color:#33ccff;"><strong>4. THe Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams</strong></span><br />5. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro<br />6. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama<br />7. To kill a mocking bird - harper lee<br />8. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai<br />9. Pride and Prejudice<br /><span style="color:#33ccff;"><strong>10. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown</strong></span><br />11. Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh<br />12. Shantaram (Half read... need to pick up again)<br />13. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie<br /><span style="color:#33ccff;"><strong>14. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse</strong></span><br />15. Night of Flames - Douglas W Jacobson</span><br /></span><strong><span style="color:#33ccff;">16. After Dark – Haruki Murakami (Done)</strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7211966726044202752-8611901100024107430?l=reading-adventures-index.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pratima Nagaraj (Pratima Jayaram)noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211966726044202752.post-41696608230326687732008-12-20T01:18:00.000-08:002010-01-01T09:10:23.693-08:00Here's a complete list of books I have read (In no specific order)<br /><br /><u><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Indian Writing</span></strong><br /></u>1. The Namesake - <em>Jhumpa Lahiri<br /></em>2. The Hungry Tide - <em>Amitav Ghosh</em><br />3. The Inscrutable Americans - <em>Anurag Mathur</em><br />4. Sister of my Heart - <em>Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni<br /></em>5. Unaccustomed Earth - <em>Jhumpa Lahiri</em><br />6. The White Tiger - <em>Aravind Adiga<br /></em>7. A Flight of Pigeons - <em>Ruskin Bond<br /></em>8. Almost Single - <em>Advaita Kala<br /></em>9. Keep off the Grass - <em>Karan Bajaj</em><br />10. 34 Bubblegums and Candies - <em>Preeti Shenoy</em><br />11. The Interpreter of Maladies - <em>Jhumpa Lahiri</em><br />12. 24x7 Marriage - <em>Vijay Nagaswami</em><br /><em>13. </em>Two States - <em>Chetan Bhagat</em><br />14. Five Point Someone - <em>Chetan Bhagat</em><br />15. One night at the call center - <em>Chetan Bhagat<br /></em><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong><u>Fiction</u></strong> (Contemporary/World)</span><br />1. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini<br />2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid<br />3. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini<br />4. The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak<br />5. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov<br />6. In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar<br />7. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Adichie<br />8. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding<br />9. After Dark - Haruki Murakami<br />10. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown<br />11. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro<br />12. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown<br />13. Princess - Jean Sasson<br />14. Brida - Paulo Coehlo<br />15. To Sir with Love - E.R.Braithwaite<br /><br /><strong><u><span style="color:#ff6600;">Non-Fiction</span></u></strong><br />1. Snapshots from hell - <em>Peter Robinson</em><br />2. My Feudal Lord - <em>Tehmina Durrani<br /></em>3. The Last Lecture - <em>Randy Pausch</em><br />4. AIDS Sutra - <em>Multiple Authors (Anthology)<br /></em>5. Black Friday: The True story of bombay bomb blasts - <em>Hussain Zaidi</em><br />6. Dont lose your mind, lose your weight - <em>Rujuta Diwekar<br /></em>7. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - <em>Rashmi Bansal</em><br />8. Freakonomics - <em>Steven Levitt &amp; Stephen Dubner</em><br /><br /><strong><u><span style="color:#ff6600;">Self-Help/Inspiration</span></u></strong><br />1. Keys to Living Joyfully - <em>Sheri Kaye Hoff </em><br /><em>2. </em>Everybody Wins - <em>Gary Chapman</em><br /><em>3. </em>The Monk who sold his Ferrari - <em>Robin Sharma<br />4. </em>The Road Less Travelled - <em>Scott Peck</em><br /><br /><strong><u><span style="color:#ff6600;">Young Adult Fiction</span></u></strong><br />1. Dancing with Ana - <em>Nicole Barker<br /></em><br /><strong><u><span style="color:#ff6600;">Memoirs</span></u></strong><br />1. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert<br /><br /><br /><strong><u><span style="color:#ff6600;">Humor/Comedy </span></u></strong><br />1. But then again I could be wrong - Jim Rising<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong><u>Spiritualism/Religion/Philosophy</u></strong><br /></span>1. Buddha Mind, Buddha Body - <em>Thich Nhat Hanh</em><br />2. Energy of Prayer - <em>Thich Nhat Hanh</em><br />3. Symbols of the Soul - <em>Gina Lake</em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7211966726044202752-4169660823032668773?l=reading-adventures-index.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pratima Nagaraj (Pratima Jayaram)noreply@blogger.com0