Scanned through Indiblogger list for Bangalore bloggers. Luckily Got Pratima's mind over matter. And got this competition. The orbis terrarum challenge http://exlibrisbb.blogspot.com/2008/03/orbis-terrarum-challenge.html?... . We have to complete reading 9 books in 9 months and review them in our blog. But here is my tentative list of books to be read.
1> Dog years - Gunter Grass (Germany)
2> Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA)
3> Good Earth - Pearl Buck (China)
4> The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Khureshi (Pakistan)
5> Some book by Taslima Nasreen (Bangla Desh)
6> Some small book by Dostovesky/Tolstoy (Russia)
7> English August - Upamanyu Chatterji (India)
8> A room with a view - E.M.Forster or any other book by him(UK)
9> Yet to be decided
Now Good Earth I thought would qualify as chinese. But it may not. 2,4 and 7 I have already read. A re-read is necessary to write a review. First book I am reading but very very slowly because every word is loaded with meaning. Gunter Grass is the Nobel winning German writer who wrote Tin Drum . Forster's book I can get as pdf from readprint.(http://www.readprint.com/)
See I do not buy books. Let us leave aside the reason for that. What I read is always from a wonderful library in Bangalore belonging to Indian Institute of World culture where we get most of the classics and many contemporary books also. One doubt here will Wodehouse qualify? I can anytime read a Jeeves.
Have you read about parallel universes? I was thinking of creating a website for books. There are some bloggers who are doing a wonderful work there. So this could be example of parallel universes There is a me who is creating a book blog, another me who is leading adventurous life of linux, microcontrollers and open source software and this one here who is brooding, grumbling and googling.
1> Dog years - Gunter Grass (Germany)
2> Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne (USA)
3> Good Earth - Pearl Buck (China)
4> The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Khureshi (Pakistan)
5> Some book by Taslima Nasreen (Bangla Desh)
6> Some small book by Dostovesky/Tolstoy (Russia)
7> English August - Upamanyu Chatterji (India)
8> A room with a view - E.M.Forster or any other book by him(UK)
9> Yet to be decided
Now Good Earth I thought would qualify as chinese. But it may not. 2,4 and 7 I have already read. A re-read is necessary to write a review. First book I am reading but very very slowly because every word is loaded with meaning. Gunter Grass is the Nobel winning German writer who wrote Tin Drum . Forster's book I can get as pdf from readprint.(http://www.readprint.com/)
See I do not buy books. Let us leave aside the reason for that. What I read is always from a wonderful library in Bangalore belonging to Indian Institute of World culture where we get most of the classics and many contemporary books also. One doubt here will Wodehouse qualify? I can anytime read a Jeeves.
Have you read about parallel universes? I was thinking of creating a website for books. There are some bloggers who are doing a wonderful work there. So this could be example of parallel universes There is a me who is creating a book blog, another me who is leading adventurous life of linux, microcontrollers and open source software and this one here who is brooding, grumbling and googling.
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