I thought I'll talk about something other than food or recipes

Since I started this blog I've only posted about my love for food, cooking and recipes. So, I thought I'll also share my love for other things. Lets start with my love for books. Whenever I am not baking, you'll definitely find me reading. I've so many books right now, I don't know where to put them...that does not mean I'll lend them! I've had awful experiences with people who borrow my books. They either think they can keep it for themselves or tear chunks off my precious original beauties (them idiots!humph). I buy books whenever possible, I spend most of my money either on books or baking ingredients. The salespeople at Crossword in Indiranagar even know what kind of books I like. Whenever I am in Bangalore I make sure I go to Crossword almost every sunday morning, it's like a ritual. And I always end up buying some book or the other, mostly because I feel I just cannot leave the book behind. I feel the books speak to me (overripe imagination and all).

And for all those of you who don't know what Books are, here's the definition of books from Wikipedia:
"A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page."
Interesting fact, again from Wikipedia: The word Book comes from Old English "bōc" which (itself) comes from the Germanic root "*bōk-", cognate to beech.^[2] Similarly, in Slavic languages (for example, Russian, Bulgarian,Macedonian) "буква" (bukva—"letter") is cognate with "beech". In Russian and in Serbian and Macedonian, another Slavic languages, the words "букварь" (bukvar') and "буквар" (bukvar), respectively, refer specifically to a primary school textbook that helps young children master the techniques of reading and writing. It is thus conjectured that the earliestIndo-European writings may have been carved on beech wood.^[3] Similarly, the Latin word codex, meaning a book in the modern sense (bound and with separate leaves), originally meant "block of wood".

Here's a list of a few of my favorite books (I can't name all of them in one post)-

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (my all time favorite)
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
Love Story by Eric Segal
Doctors by Eric Segal
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
Don Quixote (Don Quijote de la Mancha Completo) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Those pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan
The Family by Mario Puzo
Prizes by Eric Segal
Princess by Jean Sasson
Mayada by Jean Sasson
Love in a torn land by Jean Sasson
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada #1) by Lauren Weisberger
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Asura - Tale of The Vanquished by Anand Neelakantan
Asterix and Obelisk by René Goscinny

I will try and find links to the e-books for those of you who are interested in reading and post on this blog.


Until next time, Happy reading :)