Reading Update – 18th Februaury 2013

Just an update on my reading progress! In typical fashion, I’ve managed to read an equal number of books that are on the list as those that aren’t 😉 Still, twelve books is not too bad, given that most books on the list are outside my comfort zone of ‘thrillers’ 🙂 I’ve decide to keep the List static for a while before I think of adding more books…what with the summer vacations coming up and with them a good amount of travel, I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to read. But I like that my reading seems to have taken on a new depth since I’ve begun to review every book I read. It’s an exercise that helps keep in check my notorious lack of discipline when it comes to writing and for that I’m truly grateful 🙂

Books read on the LIST

1. Narcopolis – Jeet Thayil 
2. A Spot of Bother – Mark Haddon 
3. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee – Rebecca Miller 
4. The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje 
5. The God of Small Things – Arundati Roy
6. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
7. A House for Mr. Biswas – V. S. Naipaul
8. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
9. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
10. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
12. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
13. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
14. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The Oath of the Vayuputras – Amish
16. The Famished Road – Ben Okri
17. Kaalam (Time) – M. T. Vasudevan Nair, translated by Gita Krishnankutty (Orient Blackswan, 2012)
18. Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence – Geoff Dyer
19. The Fault in our Stars – John Green
20. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
21. Swimming Home – Deborah Levy
22. Arthur & George – Julian Barnes
23. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
24. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
25. Rainbow at Noon – Dhiruben Patel
26. Canada – Richard Ford
27. Wild – Cheryl Strayed
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
29. Skios – Michael Frayn
30. Umbrella – Will Self

Books read that are not on the LIST

1. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – Phillip Pullman
2. The Taliban Cricket Club – Timeri N. Murari
3. Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto
4. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken – Tarquin Hall
5. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
6. Anatomy of a Disappearance – Hisham Matar

Currently Reading – A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

And here is something I found while quote – hunting! I think it’s a brilliant idea and it would help get Hubby off my back when he complains about the night-light that ruins his sleep 😛 😉

Happy Reading People 😀