Thursday, May 07, 2009

Tagged

My first tag ever thanks Lost On the Street.
I am super excited,lets see how this goes. It is nice tag about books!

1) What author do you own the most books by?
R.K. Narayan

2) What book do you own the most copies of?
"The English Teacher" perhaps

3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
Not Really

4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Jennifer in LoveStory

5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Calvin and Hobbes

6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
The Three Musketeers,Tinkle,Chandamama,Champak

7) What is the worst book you’ve read in the past year?
My Sister's keeper(This is not a bad book and worst of the lot I read :)

8) What is the best book you’ve read in the past year?
A good Indian wife

9) If you could force everyone to read one/two book, what would it be?
Predictably Irrational,The last hours of an Ancient Sunlight

10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
Can't Say

11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I don't How she does it

12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
Tamarind Woman

13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don't know if I ever dreamt about such and even if I did I cannot remember :(

14) What is the most lowbrow book you’ve read as an adult?
Mills and Boon.

15) What is the most difficult book you’ve ever read?
Shantaram

16) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
None(I am not there yet)

17) Austen or Eliot?
Neither

18) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Shakespeare, Thirrukural(tamil literature)

19) What is your favorite novel?
Eat Pray Love

20) Play?
Eka Lagnachi Goshth(Marathi Play:Story of a Marriage)

21) Short story?
Stories in UnAccustomed Earth

22) Work of non-fiction?
Waiter Rant,Maximum City

23) Who is your favorite writer?
Jhumpa Lahiri

My Addition to this Tag

24)The most inspiring book?
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

4 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

u can read Tamil and Marathi both? wow.

9:33 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

why does your blog not let me comment using my wordpress account?
lostonthestreet

9:34 AM  
Blogger Aarthi said...

yes I have no idea why it would do that.
I read tamil very slowly and many a times I do not understand the meaning as well. But I do plan to better my tamil :)

10:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's a wide selection of books!

6:51 AM  

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