Pinku’s post here had me thinking about my favourite avatars in literature. What are the characters that have stuck with me from the books I have read, long after I have finished reading them?
Within the limited reading that I have done, I think these are the characters that have made a lasting impression on me [...]
Archive for August, 2009
28 Aug
My favourite avatars
25 Aug
Hope
A riot of colour on the grass,
Pregnant with perfume,
Bursting with promise;
Graceful flower,
Pray, will you adorn a mantel
Before you die,
Decaying little by little as you are?
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Image Source: Here
For the week’s prompts over at 3WW- Decay, Graceful, Riot
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Song on my mind:
24 Aug
Marley and Me
I LOVE dogs. And LOVE is an understatement. That could be one solid reason for me falling in love with John Grogan’s book Marley and Me. The other reasons are the wonderful insights on dogs that Grogan has given, the light and funny and yet deep prose that has been used, as well as the [...]
19 Aug
Language of louu
I read this post here and SO wanted to do one of my own. Every family has a ‘Language of Louu’, unique to itself. So did we. One of the best parts I remember from my growing-up years. What was ours?
I talked the usual Ikka (water), Jojo (bath), tacchi mammam (curd rice) kiddie-style language, and [...]
14 Aug
It is fun…
… to yak, yak and yak with your mom first thing in the morning, tell her what is in stock in your kitchen and what is not, learn long-distance how to make a modified version of kesari, make it for Gokulashtami, actually like it yourself and be appreciated by your colleagues and in-laws for it. [...]
12 Aug
The Super 8 tag
The better half is out touring since Sunday, there’s loads to do at work and at home, I am tired and sleep- and fun-deprived, and lonely and SUPER-BUGGED. All I want to do is crib. Instead, I take up this Super 8 tag from Rambler’s blog.
Here you go:
8 TV Shows I Love to [...]
10 Aug
Thoda hai…
… thode ki zaroorat hai. Time constraints, budget and circumstances be damned; there are quite a few things on my mind that I want now. And I want to rant about them now. So, here we go with my as-of-now wish list:
1) Me- and us-time
I wish I could have all the time in the world, [...]
6 Aug
The Zahir
After Bridget Jones’s Diary, the next book that I picked up was ‘The Zahir’ by Paulo Coelho. The book had been lying unread on my bookshelf for nearly 2 years, and I picked it up on a sudden urge. I did take my own sweet time to read it, though!
I read this book for the [...]
5 Aug
The Boredom Tag
It’s the middle of the week, and I am having the blues. And what better idea to shoo a little of it off than a suttufied tag? So, here I am with this tag that I stole off Swat’s blog:
1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first [...]
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