Book tag?
Silbil's attempt at making us learn how to "tag". We still haven't figured out what it is but here's our very own version of it...
The first book I remember reading: The Enchanted Book (Enid Blyton)
The book that my parents asked me NOT to read and I read: Some Ismat Chughtai book - I think it had a "quilt" on the cover page. I picked it up at Lolita Mashi's and for some reason all adults were not very happy with my choice. (I was about 10)
Book I associate most with love, for whatever reason: The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulic. NO NO it's not what you think. Try reading this book before you judge me. If that is porno, so is Margaret Atwood. WARNING:A bit time spoiler ahead
She realizes she loves him too much to let him go. So she eats him...
Book that should have never finished: "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter" by Salinger. He writes so brilliantly that I feel like I can was sitting in the same taxi with all the people escaping from the wedding (where the groom never shows up). the short man whose legs don't touch the floor, the aggravated woman, the blubbering man... Oh I love Salinger. Unfortunately, I think he dead.
Book I am so embarrassed about liking: Land of far Beyond. the most preachy kiddy fable anyone could write (Blyton's the preacher). For some bizarre reason it's just engraved in my memory!
Book I am so embarrassed about not liking: Old man and the Sea. Nohhh I can't!
One day I will pucca read: Shakespeare's something or the other
The most erotic book I have read: The Taste of a Man (Am I allowed to repeat an answer Prof. Silbil?)
I could't sleep for nights after reading: Roald dahl's Royal Jelly - don't ask me why that gave me sleepless nights, but yikes it did!
I can never finish reading, though have tried many times: Old man and the Sea. Nohhh I can't!
I bought recently: Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood - feministic (is that a word?), about surrogate motherhood and spooky as hell. The most approp combo for me now!
My wish list (3 books allowed)
1. Hitchhiker's guide (I always plan to read it but never do it)
2. "The Political Economy of Threats and the Production of Fear" by people on my committee! The name sounds cool but too daunting. I bought it, got it signed and it's now sitting pretty on my shelf for the past 6 months!
3. Lajja: Why Why WHy was there so much of Halla about it.
The first book I remember reading: The Enchanted Book (Enid Blyton)
The book that my parents asked me NOT to read and I read: Some Ismat Chughtai book - I think it had a "quilt" on the cover page. I picked it up at Lolita Mashi's and for some reason all adults were not very happy with my choice. (I was about 10)
Book I associate most with love, for whatever reason: The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulic. NO NO it's not what you think. Try reading this book before you judge me. If that is porno, so is Margaret Atwood. WARNING:A bit time spoiler ahead
She realizes she loves him too much to let him go. So she eats him...
Book that should have never finished: "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter" by Salinger. He writes so brilliantly that I feel like I can was sitting in the same taxi with all the people escaping from the wedding (where the groom never shows up). the short man whose legs don't touch the floor, the aggravated woman, the blubbering man... Oh I love Salinger. Unfortunately, I think he dead.
Book I am so embarrassed about liking: Land of far Beyond. the most preachy kiddy fable anyone could write (Blyton's the preacher). For some bizarre reason it's just engraved in my memory!
Book I am so embarrassed about not liking: Old man and the Sea. Nohhh I can't!
One day I will pucca read: Shakespeare's something or the other
The most erotic book I have read: The Taste of a Man (Am I allowed to repeat an answer Prof. Silbil?)
I could't sleep for nights after reading: Roald dahl's Royal Jelly - don't ask me why that gave me sleepless nights, but yikes it did!
I can never finish reading, though have tried many times: Old man and the Sea. Nohhh I can't!
I bought recently: Handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood - feministic (is that a word?), about surrogate motherhood and spooky as hell. The most approp combo for me now!
My wish list (3 books allowed)
1. Hitchhiker's guide (I always plan to read it but never do it)
2. "The Political Economy of Threats and the Production of Fear" by people on my committee! The name sounds cool but too daunting. I bought it, got it signed and it's now sitting pretty on my shelf for the past 6 months!
3. Lajja: Why Why WHy was there so much of Halla about it.
posted by Amrita Pande at 7:02 PM
4 Comments:
your parents did not let you read the ismat chughtai book with the quilt on the cover because the story LIHAAF (meaning quilt only) is about a lesbian relationship. The women used to make out under the quilt and was written from a POV of a young girl only who didn't understand what they were doing...
she was accused of pornography btw along with Manto
and Old man and the sea is just a tiny small book...
thanks for the scene from raise high the roof beam- it did seem like it could've gone on beyond where it ended. that the beauty, i guess.
silbil mentioned manto- there was a sweet story about a newly wed couple (was he a taxi driver?) frustrated by their inability to make love on the communal sleeping ground on the chhat, until one day the guy spent a month's wage on a make-shift chaar-diwari. and then they made music...
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Lihaaf is a part of our course (1st yr english hons). Chughtai got into a lot of trouble for that story, and had to go on trial. I think she said in her autobiography, somewhere, that she wished she wasn't remembered for that story alone. Try reading 'the sacred duty' by her if you're interested.
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