I Read These...

...books over the last two months -

• Riot - Shashi Tharoor
• One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Jack and the Beanstalk, Board Book of Fruits, Veg, and Foods :-)
• The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

Read half of Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee.

And now reading An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (read it during my college days, reading it once again :-))

Its Twilight Now

Yeah, it is the Twilight mania for me now. I can't put down the book without wanting to take it up and start reading again. I don't want to go to sleep, instead lie down and read and read and read. I just want to finish of my cooking and other chores so that I can just indulge in the pleasure of reading. Its real fun now. Seems like I have got back that pace of reading I used to have back in my college days. And as the thickness of the pages on the left hand side, while reading, increases, I am more motivated to keep reading.

I plan to write a review about the series. I have already completed the first two of the series - Twilight and New Moon. Started on with Eclipse. It is a pretty thick book and the last one - Breaking Dawn is even thicker.

Okay no more time to write. Need to catch up with my reading now.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Year: 2005

Genre: Drama

Direction: Rob Marshall

Cast: Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, and Michelle Yeoh

Rating: Good

This is a serious, yet touching and memorable movie. Now, how I came about to watch this movie -My colleague gave me the book to read. It was not with any great interest that I started reading the book. And even after I started reading, there was nothing too exciting that kept me reading, yet there was some curiosity that made me continue. I would not say that the book is a great literary piece of work. It seems written in simple language without any great elements involved. But yes, the story is a peculiar one.

Chiyo, belongs to a very poor fisherman family, where her mother is on her death bed. She has an elder sister too. The girls are sold to a wealthy man, who inturn sells them again. Chiyo is sold to a Geisha house. For the first few years of her life, she cries, tries to run away, is harassed by another Geisha, and suffers a lot of pain. But eventually we see, how she keeps her will-power and goes on to become one of the most popular Geisha in Gion.

The journey is amazing. In the book, the journey doesn't seem that interesting as there are many incidents happening in between. But the movie has the flow and the visualization is wonderful.

The movie has quite a lot of breathtakingly wonderful shots. The shots are such that you seem to notice nothing but the beauty in it. Be it the shot where little Chiyo runs through the Orange gateways to put the coins which the Chairman gave, or the cherry blossom, or even the flowing water with the bleeding colours of the clothes.

The book was written by Arthur Golden, published in 1997, and is fictional. The movie was based on the book and directed by Rob Marshall in 2005.

I am Reading...

Currently I am reading "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work". The first time I read a Chicken Soup series was a couple of years back. May be during my college days. I was quickly fascinated by the stories. Since then I have read a few of the series.

Last month, when we went out, I bought this new Chicken Soup book. I must admit that I haven't finished reading the book. But now I have started reading at least one story a day before I go to sleep. This is easy because each story is no longer than 2 or 3 pages and it takes just about 5 to 10 minutes. I go to bed having a happy feeling that I derive from the stories and satisfied that I have read a story.

The stories are about the working people or those stories related to work. There are stories about work activities, people at work, and even work policies. All have a common feeling of humanity and love in it. This is the best part about the stories.

So I am looking forward to finish this book and buy a new one at the earliest.