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smittenbyuThis has been going around and I took part:
Rules: In your status, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes and don't think too hard - they don't have to be the 'right' books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Oh, and they DON'T HAVE to be fiction. Tag a few friends including me so I can see your list.
Here's mine (in no particular order):
1) R K Narayan (all his fiction) and recently Gods, Demons, and others - this book has helped me understand many of the complex stories and meanings behind many of the things we do in Hinduism. It helps me explain things to D better when she has questions!
2) Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - the only Austen book I loved/love!
3) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - I read this book at a very low point in my life. 2003, on the flight when I left Hawai'i to return to parents' home. It was the right timing for me. I doubt it would have had such an effect on my life if I had read it any other point in my life!
4) John Grisham's books - I loved all his books. Recently though, I hesitate to pick his books as it's become a little boring for me. I think it's just me tiring of the genre.
5) Strategy Synthesis: Resolving Strategy Paradoxes by Ron Meyer & Bob de Wit - this was a book I read in my MBA days but there's so much in this book that applies even in daily life! I guess it reflects my general principle in life. There is no one way of doing things. It also helped that the authors taught the class! The two are polar opposites and hilarious that they managed to work together! But they practice what they preach!
6) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - explains so much about my own life.
7) Robert Frost & William Wordsworth poems - introduced to me in middle/high school and just loved them.
8) Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - have to say it was hard to pick between Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn.
9) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - this one and the next book really top the list. I was about the age of the girls in the story. It hit home. When I was in Amsterdam, I hesitated so much to visit Anne Frank's home. I felt somehow I was invading her space and mostly I couldn't stop crying. And yet, in all the inhumanity of this world, it did show there were some good souls who at least tried to help!
10) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - I never understood (and still can't) how one could hate someone because of their skin colour. This book was an introduction to that world. My heart still locks up into a big lump. But the two books showed that even in all the evil there was/is some good. But I always cried to mom, why do we need that evil?! Why so much of it?!
I guess that's the eternal question we all try to answer!
Anyone interested can do this too! Would love to hear yours!
Rules: In your status, list 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don't take more than a few minutes and don't think too hard - they don't have to be the 'right' books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Oh, and they DON'T HAVE to be fiction. Tag a few friends including me so I can see your list.
Here's mine (in no particular order):
1) R K Narayan (all his fiction) and recently Gods, Demons, and others - this book has helped me understand many of the complex stories and meanings behind many of the things we do in Hinduism. It helps me explain things to D better when she has questions!
2) Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - the only Austen book I loved/love!
3) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - I read this book at a very low point in my life. 2003, on the flight when I left Hawai'i to return to parents' home. It was the right timing for me. I doubt it would have had such an effect on my life if I had read it any other point in my life!
4) John Grisham's books - I loved all his books. Recently though, I hesitate to pick his books as it's become a little boring for me. I think it's just me tiring of the genre.
5) Strategy Synthesis: Resolving Strategy Paradoxes by Ron Meyer & Bob de Wit - this was a book I read in my MBA days but there's so much in this book that applies even in daily life! I guess it reflects my general principle in life. There is no one way of doing things. It also helped that the authors taught the class! The two are polar opposites and hilarious that they managed to work together! But they practice what they preach!
6) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - explains so much about my own life.
7) Robert Frost & William Wordsworth poems - introduced to me in middle/high school and just loved them.
8) Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - have to say it was hard to pick between Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn.
9) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - this one and the next book really top the list. I was about the age of the girls in the story. It hit home. When I was in Amsterdam, I hesitated so much to visit Anne Frank's home. I felt somehow I was invading her space and mostly I couldn't stop crying. And yet, in all the inhumanity of this world, it did show there were some good souls who at least tried to help!
10) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - I never understood (and still can't) how one could hate someone because of their skin colour. This book was an introduction to that world. My heart still locks up into a big lump. But the two books showed that even in all the evil there was/is some good. But I always cried to mom, why do we need that evil?! Why so much of it?!
I guess that's the eternal question we all try to answer!
Anyone interested can do this too! Would love to hear yours!
