JoV's Book Pyramid

There were several reasons why I had to read this book, series, whatever you call it. All 1001 pages of it. First, Haruki Murakami is my favourite author. Second, 1984 is one of my favourite books of all time. Third, the book is so hot that all of them were checked out from the library. … Continue reading »

With the hustling and bustling of the city of London and busy weekdays, I missed out on a few catchy new titles  that are due to be published this year. They are: Cairo: My Country, My Revolution by Ahdaf Soueif No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer Home by Toni Morrison Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel  The Dream of the … Continue reading »

I was born tomorrow Today I live Yesterday killed me Parviz Owsia My first review of the year is Before I go to Sleep. I decided to read this book because of its frequent mention on book blogging community. I did not read the reviews in details but the blurb sounds fascinating…. and the cover, such … Continue reading »

The new year began with the usual free newspapers onmy way to work in London, and both Metro and Evening standards have published a similar list of  the most anticipated new books of 2012 – Evening Standards last week. Drawing from the source of the article, here are the new books published this year: January Pop … Continue reading »

Every year wordpress produces an inspiring and humourous report on every blog (I know because I actively run 3 of them!). I’m not here to gloat but I just love the way the guys at wordpress put their stats together and here they are: I definitely want to visit Louvre Museum this spring and see … Continue reading »

It’s the time of the year again where I put up my fancy charts and report on what I read for the year! I am quite a geek so I love doing up fancy charts. Humour me if you could just read some of my book stats, otherwise go to my next section and read … Continue reading »

Sorry I have inundated your google reader or feeder with loads of review and wrap-up posts. I’m doing some last minute catch-up here, so bear with me. Throughout the year my progress in reading challenges are recorded in this page: 2011 reading challenges Looking back I did pretty well with some of the reading challenges sign-up … Continue reading »

“Have a Good Time” Yesterday it was my birthday. I hung one more year on the line. I should be depressed. My life’s a mess. But I’m having a good time. I’ve been loving and loving and loving. I’m exhausted from loving so well I should go to bed. But a voice in my head … Continue reading »

Revolutionary Road is another one of those books that I should have read but yet to do so. Kurt Vonnegut heralded it as “The Great Gatsby of my time…”, a movie starring Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio was made to critical acclaim, it was in my TBR list… All the reasons that made me glad … Continue reading »

It is very uncharacteristic of me to read a book and drag on for months before deciding whether to abandon or finishing it. This year I have done it for this book and 2666. Before the year ends in 2 days, I’m planning to finish reading 2666. The Thing around your neck doesn’t falls in … Continue reading »

I stumbled across this book in the Westminster London (close to where I work) Library one day and took this home. A continuation to my favourite I Saw Ramallah, I can’t wait to read the sequel. In 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah that told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the … Continue reading »

Middlesex. The book sat on my shelf for 2.5 years unread with that provocative book title staring at me. Is it the name of a location? Or a tongue-in-cheek for the main hermaphrodite character? As I soon found out that the title meant both and also a very complex and it is clever book too. … Continue reading »

I admit in the process of aging I lost my sense of humour. So when someone told me about how hilarious ‘An Idiot Abroad’ was when it was on air in Britain’s Sky TV in 2010, I was sceptical. Until I watch series 1 this summer and then series 2 a month ago. The show … Continue reading »

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you have a great time unwrapping your presents, dig into those Christmas pudding and have a great time with family and friends. The year of 2011 is almost ended and I have my eye on a few new reading challenges next year. So here is my sign-up post for all challenges … Continue reading »