BLOG AWARD

I have recieved an award for my blog!! It is for people who have less than 200 followers!

Thank you Jeanz :) (to check out her blog, click here)

 

These are the rules:

1. Thank the giver and link back to their blog:

Thanks Jeanz for giving me award and your link is up above :)

2. Leave your top 5 picks for the award and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog:

                1. Aparna @ A Bangalore Girl in Mumbai

                2. Demetra Brodsky @ WHY I YA 

               3. Freelancer @ A Lot of Pages

               4. Heather @ nightly reading

               5. Alyssa @ The Book Blog Experience

3. Copy and paste the award to your blog if I picked you.

4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love to the other bloggers.

5. Most of all: support each other and have lots of fun!

Proud Moment!

As I sit here on my darling little netbook writing this post, my dear elder sister, Purva, is taking her first baby steps in the blogging world and writing her first blog post! This is an extremely proud moment for me as I feel in some small way, I join a long list of friends who encouraged her to write her own blog.

I realise that it is not a great accomplishment to give our silly opinions to the world, but in a small way, it gives us bloggers an awesome sense of freedom to be able to express ourselves on (virtual) paper... even if no one is reading :) :)

So welcome Purva, and hope you continue to blog and have fun!!

Below is my list of people who I would like to see blogging sometime soon,

1) My husband K, he says he is not articulate enough, I say you are just lazy
2) A friend, Meenu, she is an amazing artist and her blog will be sooooo interesting to see
3) My friend Harsh, it will be a universal helpline blog where you can get help and advise on anything in the world as he gets amazing pleasure from helping others
4) Another friend, Pinank, it will be a dhamaal blog, but he may never do it :(

And many many others..

Now you must be thinking, 'she wants her entire circle of family and friends to join her in the blogging world (probably to generate some traffic on her blog :())'. Well, that's not the case, (maybe the part about traffic..), there are some people i would not want blogging like,

My very good friend Suku, if she starts a blog, it will soon turn into a full-fledged social networking site, forcing popular ones like facebook to go out of business in India! they will come after me!!!
Another friend, Vinesh, no idea what nonsense he will write :) and as one of my best friends, i will be forced to read it !!!!
My MOTHER!!, though i must say after seeing her master the Internet and facebook and YouTube, she is the one most likely to start blogging... if she does, I shall be named the chief problem solver and will have to translate the entire process for her in Gujju!!!!

Well, jokes apart, I take this opportunity to welcome Purva to blogging.. please do visit her blog http://purvasblog.blogspot.com/

My First Post!

Once upon a time, I was a compulsive reader and a writer. Over time, I kept on reading, but forgot to write about what I read. So, with my husband pushing and prodding me to start writing a blog, I thought it was time I put my thoughts out for all to see. So, with great trepidation, I am now posting my first post!

I discovered the wonderful world of “story-books” (as my very correct Gujju parents call them), when I was in the third grade and I have just not looked back. The obsession grew and grew till a time came that I was in danger of failing in science and math (the books were too boring.. loved history and lit though) coz I just didn’t want to come out of my world of Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton (I still read her sometimes) and Sweet Valleys… However, with time I have learned to reign in my curiosity about what happens next and now on most days I can wait till I am out of office to pull my book out to read on.

I read almost everything available, but I am totally addicted to chicklit and romance novels, especially historical romance (yes, yes I have read all the ones with Fabio on the cover.. what can I say, it has happened to all of us sometime!). This came to be after a long phase of reading Mills&Boon, which was interspersed by times like when I finished the entire Sidney Sheldon series one summer, then started on John Grisham… you can guess the list…

Fast forward to the present: I still read historical romances and chicklit, but I’m trying to fill in some gaps by expanding my reading to classics, business books, Booker Prize winners, Man Booker winners and such. To help me with this, I have signed on to a few challenges online, like The Shakespeare Challenge.

So, here I am, all set to expand my horizons and write my opinions on books which I manage to read over the year. Hope you enjoy reading about my bibliophilic quest!