Perpetually Perplexed

  As I mentioned in the previous post, I am repenting that I am losing the habit of reading (only one good quality of mine). So googled for book challenges. Then I thought why don't any Indian post such a contest. Hence I came across this page - S. Krishna's books. She had south asian book challenge last year. Ok, last year is over. Anyway she has one more challenge - 52 books  - 26 authors with a to z and 26 titles with a to z. This is end of septemeber. And I am a very very busy person. ( Are you asking how am I able to blog now. I am at office now) Anyways I will give it a try. If not 26 each I may read 6 each.     Have a look at the challenge yourself.  Here

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 w...