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Has it’s advantages.

If you are ill, lying in bed and gorging on these is very acceptable.

A big shout-out to Ms Clark, Ms DeForest and Ms Walker. I’m still a little confused about ‘He’ll render you very dead’, (Said by Mr. Cowboy to Ms. Heiress, ofcourse), but other than that, these cardboard cutouts of gorgeous turkey farmers and bounty hunters are pretty great. I’m running out of them now, which is making me nervous. There’s a nice little David Lodge on my bedside table that I’m sure is mocking me, wittily of course, because Lodge is very witty, but I can’t help it. I’m afraid I’m a goner.

I must soon visit that man who sells second hand mills and boons and harlequin romance (yes, that’s what they are, in case you didn’t guess). No reason. He’s just a nice man, and I want to say hello.

1. What book are you reading now?

Of Human Bondage by Maugham, Lolita by Nabokov

2. What are your favourite books?

 Middlesex by Eugenides, The Complete Maus by Spiegelman, Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM

3. How did you learn to read?

 I read thanks to EBD and second hand bookshops. Basically, I read thanks to my mom.

4. What foreign languages do you read? 

 None at all.

5. What’s the funniest book you ever read? 

 I haven’t read funny books (to a chorus of aww’s- S)

6. What books have changed the way you look at the world or the way you live your life? 

Rabelais, (And the rest of the names after a considerable period of holding head in hand despairingly), Terry Eagleton, Foucault, The Cultural Studies Reader.

7. What books have affirmed what you believe about life or the way you look at things?

Middlesex by Eugenides, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Shriver

8. What are some of the scariest books you ever read?

Bell Jar by Plath, April Witch, Sybil by Schreiber , Metamorphosis by Kafka

9. About how many books do you think you have read in your life? 

No Way. Phhbbt.

10. About how many books do you own?

 Can’t say, don’t even want to try.

12. How much would you say you’ve paid in library fines in your life?

10, 15 rupees? (spirited interjection from Nakashi, after which)- make it a hundred.

11. How many books per month do you usually borrow from the library? 

I don’t got to the library. I wish I could.

13. Do you read in bed?

Yes yes.

14. Do you ever read while walking or driving? 

I read standing up too, like in the metro.

15. OK, let’s get real. Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever read a book? 

In a forest area. I was alone on this cliff-y thing near our hotel in Ranikhet. Can’t think of stranger places.

16. Do you listen to audio books?

I’ve listened to The Da Vinci Code (because I had it!)

17. Has anyone ever read aloud to you or you to them? 

 Yes.

18. What was the most difficult book to read? 

Hard Times. (Ha Ha), and Spencer’s Faery Queen.

 19. What books do you intend to read but keep putting off? 

Many yaar. I need t reread A Suitable Boy, finish Raag Darbari…

20. Do you buy new or used books, paperbacks or hardcovers, leather or collector’s?

New and Used, a few hardbacks. (ditto to BB III)

 21. How do you feel about writing in books? 

Only in pencil.

22. Do you lend books?

( A very slow and reluctant yes is drawn out after a while.)

23. What were your favourite books as a child? 

Faraway tree series and Famous Five by Blyton, Sherlock Holmes, CBT stuff and Pinki

 25. Do you ever read the ending first?

 No, never.

(The frontispiece and title page of the first edition of Alice’s Adventures)

1. What book are you reading now? 

A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver and The Halloween Party by Agatha Christie(Which has since then been finished and given a solid 4/5 rating- Swati)

2. What are your favourite books? 

My head is swimming with books and I can’t decide. 100 Years of Solitude by GGM, Dance Dance Dance by Murakami, A Post Birthday World by Shriver, Hunger Games Trilogy by Collins, Goggle Eyes by Fine, This Charming Man by Keyes, Anything by Rohinton Mistry, The Harry Potter series (added through a post interview message with regret- S)

3. How did you learn to read?

Learned to read in nursery and kindergarten, but got into reading when I contracted jaundice, and was bedridden for two months. I’d finish two Enid Blytons a day and was very proud of it.

4. What foreign languages do you read? 

None, Sadly.

5. What’s the funniest book you ever read? 

Time- Waster Diaries, The Guy Next Door by Cabot and I’m sure there are more I can’t remember.

6. What books have changed the way you look at the world or the way you live your life? 

Alice in Wonderland by Carroll, Peter Pan by Barrie, Mythologies’ by Roland Barthes

7. What books have affirmed what you believe about life or the way you look at things?

All the books by Shriver, The Alice series by Carroll.

8. What are some of the scariest books you ever read?

Dracula, The Shining by King, Dance Dance Dance and After Dark by Murakami, The Hunger Games Trilogy.

9. About how many books do you think you have read in your life? 

No idea, can’t calculate.

10. About how many books do you own?

 Quite a few, but clearly not as many as I’d like.

12. How much would you say you’ve paid in library fines in your life?

Maximum of around fifty.

11. How many books per month do you usually borrow from the library? 

I don’t borrow books from the library. Usually buy them.

13. Do you read in bed?

Ya.

14. Do you ever read while walking or driving? 

I don’t drive. Sometimes I read while standing up though.

15. OK, let’s get real. Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever read a book? 

Standing against a traffic light?

16. Do you listen to audio books?

I don’t usually, but I’ve listened to the audio episodes of Tina Fey’s Bossy Pants and she’s very good.

17. Has anyone ever read aloud to you or you to them? 

Ya.

18. What was the most difficult book to read? 

Middlemarch by G. Eliot.

 19. What books do you intend to read but keep putting off? 

Mrityunjay by Shivaji Sawant, and I want to reread Anne Frank’s Diary (by, you know, Anne Frank.)

20. Do you buy new or used books, paperbacks or hardcovers, leather or collector’s?

New and Used, a few hardbacks.

 21. How do you feel about writing in books? 

I can’t get myself to write in book.

22. Do you lend books?

 Yes Ofcourse.

23. What were your favourite books as a child? 

Five Find-Outers, The Mystery Series by Blyton, Sherlock Holmes, Hardy Boys, CBT stuff, Pinki, Billu.

 25. Do you ever read the ending first?

 No.

Own a first edition copy of my favorite book. But…

I don’t know what my favorite book is.

This seems like an insurmountable problem. 

I want this.

Picture borrowed from this wonderfully, sinfully delicious site- thank you, you’ve made me very happy. http://bookshelfporn.com/