Books..books..books!! - Part 1

Yes , this has been an year of more books. Since I was mostly at home , enjoying the bliss of being a mother , I read more books than I usually do . So before the year ends , let me just review my reads :)

Re-reads

 Harry potter series - I might read them again after few years ;) . They never fail to bring a smile on my face,entertain and amaze me :) Watched couple of movies as well.

 Agatha Christie - Ordeal by innocence, One two buckle my shoe ,After the funeral,The man in the brown suit,nemesis,lord Edgware dies,passenger to Frankfurt death in the clouds,crooked house. Wow! That's quite many :D But I finish these real quick since I just love them :D

Sidney Sheldon - Nothing lasts forever,The sky is falling.I have lost interest in these , I used to read them a lot some years back :D Is this part of "growing up" ? :)

Jeffrey Archer - Kane & Abel , can read it many times and still love it :)

New Reads

Jeffrey Archer - The sins of the father , First among equals  , Good but not great as some of his other books.

The devotion of suspect , by Keigo Higashino - Too good a thriller . Story starts with a scene where the murder actually happens . So you already know the victim,murderer,and all details . So what is the suspense element here?Read to find out :) A page-turner.

The inscrutable Americans , by Anurag Mathur - Story of an Indian student in America. The Indian is made to look stupid with his "Indian English , oily hair,inability to get a girlfriend and the way he stares at everything American as if its from another world :P Didn't like it .Either the book was written decades ago or the writer is still living in the old world.

My feudal lord , by Tehmina Durrani - Real life story of the author who is physically and mentally abused by her husband.Too disturbing and after few pages I just felt like shouting at the author "Why don't you just leave him!" , which she does eventually but a little too late.

John Grisham ,A painted house - Very sweet story of young Luke and his innocent little world :) Kept me smiling throughout the read :)

Immortals of Meluha , by Amish - A book which makes you think more about , or maybe even change,some of your beliefs . Eagerly waiting to read "The Nagas" , the next part of the series.

Guess this is enough for part 1 ;) More to come in the next part of this post :)

Funny side of childhood :)

Recalling few funny incidents from childhood ;)

- This one was in Banur. We (me and few cousins) used to regularly go to farms and spend a lot of time there, playing . Once me and Ashwini (cousin) were walking back home .We had to walk through farms to get back.Just then we saw a snake passing beside us at some distance :O. We had seen in movies that snakes come after you once you see them and believed it :D We ran and ran and didn't look back till we reached home :D I was carrying some clothes which fell on the way , I didn't even pick them up fearing that the snake might be just behind us and bite us :D

- I don't remember how old I was when this happened.I was in udayagiri and some friend of doddappa and doddamma was staying with us for a day or two. D'mma was in the kitchen and called me to ask uncle (friend) to go take bath since hot water was ready and he had to leave that day. I went and said the same to uncle and came back and told d'mma - " Uncle said they have water at their place and he will take bath in his house itself ". D'mma was now totally confused . She asked me as to whom I called , and I reply - "Nagesh uncle" :D (son of the neighbours :D) .. I had gone all the way to the next house and called him to take bath :D

-This one was in Mysore . Usually after coming back from school , I used to stay in my aunt's house which was close to my house till mom came back from office.I don't remember why , but one fine day I went home directly.I was shocked to see that the house door was not locked , since at that time it ought to be. We used padlock at that time.I thought may be mom has come back soon and rang the bell many times.But no response. I decided that there are burglars inside the house. I started walking back towards aunt's house and met 2 of my friend's on the way. We decided that we have to fight the burglars and started collecting weapons :D I took a big stone , and they took a big stick and a knife. So armed we went to our house.We didn't have any plan in mind as such :D When we reached there , our neighbor saw us in this avatar and asked us what we were upto.When we told her , she laughed heartily and informed us that our parents have changed the padlock to door lock :D We were so disappointed :P

There might be many more and it always makes me laugh whenever I think of these incidents :D Hope I remember more of these so that I can add to the list ;)