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Fatima

@Rhimjhimsawan

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Posted: 15 years ago

Are all the smart people here yet? 🤔

Good 😃

So.........

Hello my Smarty pants!
did that sound lame😕 ...oh well! 😆 who cares **whistles**
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How are you guys today?!!😃😳 So dekhte hi dekhte summer came and summer left, disappeared, vanished 😭😭😭😭.
If you still have summer days left enjoy it while it lasts, I didn't even get a break thanks to classes.😭😭

So today we will get ready for the summer.yay!! boo👎🏼 No I am just kidding. I like the Yay part better 👏👍🏼
Let's talk books.🤓😃 (aah color)
I am sure most of us read as an interest,😳 (right??) others might just do it for school work. 😆😆😆
So lets just talk about what you read this summer!!!!

I know I made a list of questions below but you can simply discuss a book without answering them one by one!

And even if you don't have a book to talk about just stick around. 😉May be someone will mention a book you will want to read.😳

1. Did you get a reading list for school?

2. What did you read this summer ?

3. What do you plan to read in the near future?

4. What was the last book you really loved?

5. All time favorite book?

7. Pick a book you absolutely like or absolutely dislike and give us a detailed analysis. (yes it can be 3-4 lines)

Lets see if more than one person ended up reading the same book.

I will make a list below!😳😉

Talk to me guys!!!

Tell me what you liked...

OR

What you didn't like

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Fatima

@Rhimjhimsawan

Sparkler

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Posted: 15 years ago

BOOK List
of who read what

Most popular Book (s) among members

Kite runner-- Khaled Hosseini ⭐️
p.s I love you
Pride and prejudice
Age of Innocence
My sister's keeper
Wuthering heights
Love Story by Erich Segal

Most popular Author

Nicholas Sparks
Jane Austen

Members' Summer reading list

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Reality Check - Guy Kawasaki
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Friedman
The Magic of Thinking Big - David Schwartz
mills n boons:executive-expecting twins by barbara hannay
where rainbows end-cecelia ahern
The twenties something girl- sophie kinsella
The awakening- Kate Chopin
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The idiot- Fydor dostoyevsky
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
The Time Traveler's wife
Gold by Issac Asimov
Gone with the wind
Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
Three Weeks With My Brother - Nicholas Sparks
Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Vampire Academy series - Richelle Mead
Re-read the Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Lottie Project - Jacqueline Wilson
Miles To Go - Miley Cyrus
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Desperation - Stephen King
Flowers in the Attic - VC Andrews
This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
It - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
Only The Good Spy Young - Ally Carter
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (comes out this month.. eep! :P)
iBoy by Kevin Brooks
Chords of Strength - David Archuleta
the blind assassin
oryx and crake
the concubine's children
the jade peony
missing sarah
the wars
emma
twilight
stolen lives
Kartography by Kamila Shamsi
Iliad- Homer
The Bookseller of Kabul - sne Seierstad
Maupassant Complete short stories

Smoke and Mirrors - Pallavi Aiyer
The Rag and Bone Shop
When the Emperor was Divine
The Rag and Bone Shop
Scarlett Fever
Key Of Knowledge By Nora Roberts
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Life of Pi by Yenn Martini
power of now - Eckhart tolle
The Mortal Instruments Series By Cassandra Clare
Flowers In The Attic By V C Andrews
The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks
The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Message in a bottle
Can you keep a secret
i too had a love story
Death on the Nile
A Feeling beyond words
The Last Song
The twenties something girl
Harry Potter series
Eckhart Tolle's A new earth
J.D.Robb's Promises in death
A thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseine
The Summerhouse- June Deveraux
If I Stay - Galye Forman
Noughts and Cross series - Malorie Blackman
The wedding - Danielle Steel
The last song
Dear John
Winter's End - John Rickards

Damaged - Cathy Glass
Morganville Series By Rachel Caine

Darren Shan Vampire Series By Darren Shan
The Color of Water - James McBride
Faces in the Water by Ranjit Lal
Love Story by Erich Segal
Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal
A walk to remember by Nicholas Spark
William Shakespeare
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Vampire Diaries by L.J Smith
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The secret
Breaking dawn

the choice

at first sight
the sad truth about happiness
Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali
City of Djinns by William Darylmple
River of Fire by Qurat-ul-Ain Haider
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohd Hanif
Taboo: The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area by Dr. Fouzia Saeed
Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureshi
Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Autumn of the Patriarch

I Heart New York

Wives and Girlfriends
Salem Falls
The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold

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Vijay Bhatter

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Non-fiction Nerds

Posted: 15 years ago

Currently reading:

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Reality Check - Guy Kawasaki

Will be starting soon:

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Friedman

All time favorite:

The Magic of Thinking Big - David Schwartz

Cheers,
Vijay

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KAVYA VIDYARTHI

@dmg_fanatic

Sparkler

+ 3

Posted: 15 years ago

welll....

Currently reading- mills n boons:executive-expecting twins by barbara hannay

Planning to read: the secret
where rainbows end-cecelia ahern
The twenties something girl- sophie kinsella

All time favourite: i too had a love story
P.s. I love you:cecelia ahern

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Fatima

@Rhimjhimsawan

Sparkler

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Posted: 15 years ago

My long post! 😳

A book I completely adore (adore is the right word)

The age of innocence by Edith Wharton

It is such a lovely piece of literature. Basically there is a gentleman from high society who has an idea of his perfect girl. He gets engaged to a lovely girl he adores. Because she is the product of the perfect proper society they live in. Then her cousin comes. She left her husband and she is bold 😃. Something proper girls are not suppose to be. The family pleads her not to divorce her husband as it would ruin their name and honor. The guy really cares about honor and because his fiance's family is like his family he asks her not to go through with the divorce.............and she listens!!!😲

And of course it comes to haunt him as he falls in love with her. I will stop here in case someone finds it interesting and decides to read it.

A Book I ABSOLUTELY DESPISEEEEE

The awakening by Kate Chopin.

It's about a woman (also from proper society) she tries to break free. Finds a lover, leaves her husband and then meets tragedy. Hated it!👎🏼

A book I am in the process of reading

Anna Karenina by Leo tolstoy

Russian Literature. 😳 That is also about a woman who falls in love with another man while being married and tragedy strikes.😕

🤔 I am starting to think I only read about women. I think I do actually!😆 I go through my college reading list that has hundreds of literary works on it and then pick things I could enjoy.

The last book I really really really loved

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It's a Russian Literature. ( I love Russian lit) It's about a guy who is slightly crazy. He is not really crazy but he is so so so so so good at heart that he is basically considered an idiot. He comes to town to a very wealthy distant relative's house. The relative's youngest gorgeous daughter falls in love with him in a weird sort of way. And he likes her but he mainly worships this other woman who happens to be a wealthy mistress of some guy (former mistress). It is such a sad book!!!😭😭😭 Just the thought of it makes me want to cry my eyes out. There is actually an indian movie on it. It had Nana patekar, Monisha Koirala and Jackie shroff.

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sonali

@IsabellaCullen

Dazzler

+ 3

Posted: 15 years ago

READ THIS SUMMER:
a) The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma : It makes us realize, how we are trapped in the rut of life. It gives life an essence, why we are here, what do we expect out of it. The Sages of Sivana, divulge the secret of living a peaceful and meaningful life.

b) P.S. I Love you by Cecelia Ahern:

Read this one long time back, just re-read it this summer! A heart-warming love story which says "Love lives even after death".

c) The Time Traveler's wife:

A man with a disorder, finds himself at unknown places, in unknown eras. Every other day, he finds himself waking up in a different world!Its about how his wife copes with it and they try leading a normal love.I don't know why, I didn't fancy me much!

d) Gold by Issac Asimov:

Sci-fi, one of the last by the writer. I particularly liked the story about a "robot son" !

And yeah... I LOVE TWILIGHT BOOKS! So, keep on reading them, every once in a while!😳 (Edward's mine... forever!)

PLANNING TO READ:

1. Gone With The Wind.

2. The Kite Runner.

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Just call me Chhilt :)

@chhilt

Rocker

Posted: 15 years ago

Originally posted by: Perfangel5655

1. Did you get a reading list for school? Nope :P

2. What did you read this summer ? I read a lot of books... I don't really remember all of them 😆 But let's see... I read the following

Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
Three Weeks With My Brother - Nicholas Sparks
Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
Vampire Academy series - Richelle Mead
Re-read the Hunger Games and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Lottie Project - Jacqueline Wilson
Miles To Go - Miley Cyrus
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
Desperation - Stephen King
Flowers in the Attic - VC Andrews
This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
And lots of others that I can't remember right now :P

3. What do you plan to read in the near future? Well, I've started about seven books that I mean to finish sometime in the near future :P They are...

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Apart from these, there are some that I haven't started but want to read soon :)

It - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
Only The Good Spy Young - Ally Carter
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (comes out this month.. eep! :P)
iBoy by Kevin Brooks
Chords of Strength - David Archuleta

I think that's all... for now :P

4. What was the last book you really loved? Ooh, that's hard... hmm.. probably Inkheart by Suzanne Collins... or Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson :)

5. All time favorite book? Without a doubt, the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling <3

7. Pick a book you absolutely like or absolutely dislike and give us a detailed analysis. (yes it can be 3-4 lines) Ooh, that's a toughie... I don't really dislike any books apart from the Twilight series... and I'd rather not say anything about that here because I don't want to offend any of the fans :) But there are way too many books that I really like to single one out so I guess I won't be able to do that... that probably didn't answer your question but anyway 😆

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Just call me Chhilt :)

@chhilt

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Posted: 15 years ago

Oh question for Perfangel :) Have you read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky? I've heard it's supposed to be really good and since you like Russian lit, I thought I'd ask :)

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RhealitySux

@RhealitySux

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Posted: 15 years ago

yay, i m a smartie 😆

LOL, okay too mny questions, lets c

yes i did get a reading list frm school

the blind assassin, oryx and crake, the concubine's children, the jade peony, missing sarah, the wars etc etc

sadly i dint wanna read ne of those 😆 but i did neway

ooh hvnt really planned on nethng abt readin, i usually go to the book store n pick up nethng other than wat i planned so..

umm i recently read the roots, the kite runner, a thousand splendid suns, stolen lives, the entire twilight series (oooh dreamy jacob 😍 )

all time fav book is umm lotsa them but if i had to choose then Jane Austen's - pride n prejudice n emma, twilight, stolen lives, n many more

will hv to come back n edit later to add more to this list