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I don’t know if you remember but sometime back, I had written that I was reading ‘The Code of the Woosters’, the first-ever P.G.Wodehouse’s novel that I was reading. In that book, the way every time Bertie heaves a sigh of relief thinking that all the problems are solved only to find yet another problem surface and how Jeeves is always there to bring him out of it all, was fun to read. I liked it so much that I have started reading more of Jeeves and Woosters now. Read ‘The Inimitable Jeeves’ and ‘Ring for Jeeves’ after that. I have now started reading ‘Jeeves in the Offing’. With there being only 14 books on Wooster and Jeeves, I can’t wait to finish reading all the books! Only after that I am going to start reading other books of P.G.Wodehouse.

‘A Walk to Remember’ by Nicholas Sparks - This book was on my ‘books to read’ list for quite sometime now, after reading about it in Nithya’s and Priya’s blogs. I finally read it day before yesterday and I loved it. It has been a long time since I finished reading a book on a single day. Oh yeah the book indeed wasn’t a huge one but that was not the reason why I finished reading it in a few hours. It was so riveting that I couldn’t put it down at all.
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I was reading Robin Cook’s ‘Crisis’ sometime back and there was this line ‘Three things that never failed to rile him were bureaucracy, incompetence and stupidity, especially when they occurred together, which they often did.’ Isn’t this a line we all can relate to? Made me wonder if there would be anyone who doesn’t get vexed up when these three occur together?

The book by the way, though not unputdownable as some of the other Robin Cook’s, is pretty good till now. I still have a little more than 100 pages to read….

Unputdownable and interesting! The one thing that I liked in the books of Michael Crichton that I have read till now, ‘Congo’ and ‘State of Fear’, is the way he presents the facts and findings from research, that runs into many paragraphs, in such a manner that it blends into the story and doesn’t make it even a single bit boring to read (how many of you agree?). In fact, I felt all those scientific research stuff made a pretty interesting read.

In ‘Congo’, there were many parts that I enjoyed a lot – the description of the African rainforest, the gorilla, Amy, saving Peter from the many other gorillas in ‘The Lost City of Zinj’, all the lead characters escaping from the cannibal tribes at the last minute and lots more. A great book indeed, though I liked none of the lead characters except maybe, Amy.

The month of November has been a very busy one till now. I was out of station and without net access for most part of this month. Add to it, there was some problem with the computer at home that thankfully got resolved yesterday. Lots of blog posts to be read and written and quite a few mails awaiting my reply!
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If there was one thing that I looked forward to while travelling by bus to college, it was reading books during the travel time. Whenever I used to read an unputdownable novel when travelling by bus in the morning, during the day, the only thought in my mind would be when I can I continue reading the book. During breaks between classes, whenever the lecturer gave a free period, during lunch or even when the lecturer pauses for a few minutes, my hands would instantly go for the book and even if it meant I would get the time to read just a few lines, I never missed the opportunity to continue reading the novel. I did the same thing in school too ever since my class 7! I used to manage my time efficiently between reading novels and attending classes. But, things changed when I was in the latter part of my third year. The number of books that I read while travelling by bus reduced and I started sleeping in the bus. Earlier I used to hate sleeping in bus. Though I did read a few books in bus even during the final year of my college and during the past one year of my work, I never really read it with as much enthusiasm as earlier. Besides, the number of books that I read in the last 2 years is very less compared to earlier. I hardly read 15 books in the past 2 years!! I would partially blame my addiction to reading blogs for this!
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I recently read Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’. I had earlier tried unsuccessfully to read her ‘Pride and Prejudice’. I didn’t read beyond 15-20 pages. I found it so boring. That experience made me think twice before starting to read this book. Since Rajeev Menon’s ‘Kandukondain Kandukondain’, one of my favourite movies, is based on ‘Sense and Sensibility’, that is the only reason why I wanted to read this one. Though I did manage to read the book quickly, I did find it quite boring.

The characters in the book didn’t seem to do anything apart from partying and gossiping (It’s written that some of the characters are facing a money crunch, but do they do anything to earn more money?) and all the female characters except the Dashwoods seemed to be so dumb. Reading about Elinor’s and Marianne’s sufferings didn’t move me even a single bit. Did any of you like this book and enjoyed reading it? If the answer is yes, then what did you like in this book?