Indian Readers discussion

I'm planning to be 3 things this year as far as my reading is concerned:

1. Realistic (about my reading goals).
2. Organised (about challenges and BRs).
3. Versatile (when it comes to genres, "broaden your minds," as Professor Trelawney would say).

Hope this log is testimony to a better year than the last.

Number of books: 50

Challenges, Categories, and BR goals:
1. BRs: 0/5
2. Group Reads & Challenges: 0/3
3. PIFM: 0/5
4. Netgalley: 0/5
5. Non-fiction: 0/1
6. Music: 0/3
7. Literature & Misc Genres: 0/5
8. Classics: 0/2
9. Indian Literature: 0/4
10. Paperbacks: 0/5
11. Audiobooks: 0/3
12. Carry-forwarded books from 2017: 0/5

Note:
** Music and non-fiction may, at times, intersect paths. In such cases, it is up to my discretion where to drop it, but it will belong to either of the categories at a time.
** Remaining buffer books are to be filled.
** I'll update this countdown as I plan out the books in individual categories.

Links to books reviewed:

1. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Books planned per category in message #2 (3 categories here)
(strike out as I go along)

1. BRs:
* Dark Matter with Aka
* Nutshell with Aka
* About a Boy with Manju P. a.k.a. Lis

2. Group Reads & Challenges:

3. PIFM:
* The Godfather

Books planned per category in message #2 (3 categories here)

4. Netgalley:

5. Non-fiction:
* Night

6. Music:
*Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters

Books planned per category in message #2 (3 categories here)

7. Literature & Misc Genres:
* Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
* The Outsiders
* The Emigrants
* The Metamorphosis

8. Classics:
* Crime and Punishment
* A Clockwork Orange

9. Indian Literature:
* Hangwoman

Books planned per category in message #2 (3 categories here)

10. Paperbacks:
* The Godfather
* Sons and Lovers

11. Audiobooks:
* The Ocean at the End of the Lane
* Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
* The Graveyard Book

12. Books from 2017:
* American Gods
* A Fine Balance
* The Sympathizer (also paperback)
* A Pale View of Hills
* The Remains of the Day

DNFed/May-or-may-not-read-later Books:

* Exit West
* Cinnamon Gardens (BR with Aka)

Reserved Books (Uncategorised):
* The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
* Pachinko (also audiobook)
* The Painted Veil

Reserved for planning, if necessary.

That's lot of planning. Good Luck Sharadha

A very organised log... Shar

Thanks, Kru and Doc. Hope the planning keeps me motivated enough to complete my goals :D

I, too, am looking forward to some planning this year☺
Good luck, Sharadha!

Thanks, Aka :) You can borrow the template, if you see fit.

good luck Shar!:)

Great template, yes! I'm definitely borrowing it ☺

Good luck Shar :-)

Thanks, guys :D :D

Good Luck Sharadha! :)

Thanks, Ally! :-)

Good luck!

Thanks, Dely! 😁

Very organized, Shar! 😀

All the best for your year ahead!

meticulous! all the best :)

Organised to the core, at least the first post! :D

Hope you have a wonderful 2018 and do what you planned to do! All the best, Shar! :D

Thanks Harry, Gorab, and Sri :)

As you may all have guessed, it's not going so well :P Oh well, got a good 10 months ahead, thank God!

Sharadha wrote: "As you may all have guessed, it's not going so well"

You know what they say, when things don't go right, worry not, 'cause:



And if Sister Miley says something, you BETTER believe her!!!

Sorry for spamming, I'm kinda bored :/

Good luck with your reading-goals, buddy!
What are you reading these days?

Sharadha wrote: "Books planned per category in message #2 (3 categories here)

7. Literature & Misc Genres:
* Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
* The Outsiders
* [book:The Emigrants|1824424..."

I finally have a copy of 'A Fine Balance' and cannot wait to begin it, blown away that I was by 'Such A Long Journey'!

I just hope the name doesn't push me into a state of precariously balancing my situations for when I was reading 'Such A Long Journey' I had been travelling in our great Indian train systems which was delayed by 26 hours! That was such a long journey!!!

Perhaps a fine balance will finely balance your life. :P
But beware, it is a sad and depressing book. Good luck.

Then I must read 'A Fine Balance' for sure :D

Arpit wrote: "Sharadha wrote: "As you may all have guessed, it's not going so well"

You know what they say, when things don't go right, worry not, 'cause:



And if Sister Miley says something, ..."

Haha, she does talk sense, buddy :P

Arpit wrote: "Sorry for spamming, I'm kinda bored :/

Good luck with your reading-goals, buddy!
What are you reading these days?"

SPAM AWAYYYYYY, buddy. Yeh thread shayad aapke spamming se zinda rahega, mere reading se nahi :P

Thanks, Arp! I'm reading Great Train Robbery now. It's going really well so far. But a pretty all right 2018 so far in books, nothing stood out particularly.

What about you?

Haha Parikhit and Smi :P We can only hope that A Fine Balance weaves such a magic.

@Parikhit, if it does work for you, then please blow some of that magic this way ;-)

I will be reading A Fine Balance next. Good luck to me :D

Ok, all planning go to hell on this dead thread, I'm reading whatever the hell I want.

Anyway, planning to keep my personal laidback bingo log here.

Categories:
1. Indian Fiction or Non Fiction - Mr. Sampath--the Printer of Malgudi by R.K. Narayan (BR with Arpit, Gorab, and Reshma) pp. 220.

2. Author’s first or last name starting with H - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (reco by Arpit) pp. 192

3. Classics published before 1920 - Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915, also audiobook) pp. 201

4. Translated work (Any language other than Indian Languages) - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky pp. 485

5. Mystery or thriller published before 1980 - The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner (also June readathon) pp. 215

6. Book written by a female author - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (also June readathon) pp. 146

7. Book with science as a theme/genre (could be fiction or non fiction, you can be as creative as you want when interpreting the word ‘science’) - Slaughterhouse-Five (BR with Aka, and audio if time permits) pp. 285

8. Book with discrimination as a theme (be as creative as you want here) - Hangwoman by K.R. Meera pp. 447

9. Free Space (You can read anything you want) - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (also June readathon) 249 pp.

Countdown to strikedown starts in 4.5 hours.

Starting with Mr Sampath and Burial Rites :)

Good luck with your Bingo buddy!!

I'm rooting for you (Sshhhh....don't tell anyone) :)

ARPiT wrote: "Good luck with your Bingo buddy!!

I'm rooting for you (Sshhhh....don't tell anyone) :)"

Thanks buddy 😌🤜🏽🤛🏽🤐

You are reading 4 of my absolute favourites for the Bingo, Shar!

Metamorphosis, CnP, Burial Rites and Slaughterhouse-Five!

Looking forward to your views on all of those. :)