Thursday 16 January 2014

82 Books



82 Books, Yes 82, that is the amount of books that I read in year gone by. I must thank the good reads challenge to have motivated me in completing the challenge. It should be when I was procrastinating and it bestowed upon me eternal bliss when I was constantly changing the limits of the the challenge. It started with a modest number of 60 books and ended with all the 82 books being completed. Please forgive me for the hubris but I am unmistakably basking in the glory of my own success. That is the reason I encourage you to try your hand at the good reads challenge, It surely does motivate you.


The list of books I completed in the year 2013

What Katy Did Next (Carr Family, #3)  Anna Karenina  Navigate: How the Bible Can Help You in Every Aspect of Your Life  The Trial
The Lowland  The Marriage Contract    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)   Lolita
Aisle Be Damned  Love Story (Love Story, #1)  And the Mountains Echoed  A Daughter of Eve (Dodo Press)
The Old Curiosity Shop  The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)  First Among Equals  Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less 
Sons Of Fortune  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)  Arms And The Man Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar  Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)  A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)  Candide
The Perks of Being a Wallflower  Danny the Champion of the World: Plays for Children  Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)  Of Mice and Men

Nights in Rodanthe  Safe Haven  The Picture of Dorian Gray  A Walk to Remember
Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)  A Farewell to Arms  Romi and Gang  Three Men in a Boat
The First Ten Books (Penguin Great Ideas)  Luka and the Fire of Life  Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)  The Last Lecture
Ten Shades Of Life  Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)  The Wedding  Northanger Abbey
The Five People You Meet in Heaven  The Last Song  Hell (A Prison Diary, #1)  Tantra (The Anu Files, #1)
The Politeness of Princes  The Diary of a Young Girl  Three Men and A Maid Plus A Damsel In Distress  Kane and Abel (Kane and Abel, #1)
Cranford  The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)  The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays     Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)
Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, #5)   So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide, #4)  Agnes Grey  Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)  The Lucky One  Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)  Love, Peace and Happiness: What more can you want?
The Canterville Ghost  Of Mice and Men  Dear John  The BFG
George's Marvellous Medicine  Built for Success: The Story of Amazon.com  Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less   The Analects
And Then There Were None  A Bend in the Road  The Pearl  Shall We Tell the President? (Kane & Abel, #3)
The War of the Worlds  The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide, #2)  Petty Troubles of Married Life  

  

Friday 27 December 2013

Kittens


The cute little kittens in my house captured by the budding photographer of our household my brother Anand.







Thursday 19 December 2013

Beautiful Mornings



These mornings I have come to love, they have remained the same but then they are a constant reminder of the one thing that has not changed with us. Even when the hair fell and the skin wrinkled and as the small golden ring slowly bit into our flesh, this has not changed, these beautiful mornings, slowly waking up from the clutches of sleep and feeling that warmth of love clinging to you. It is as addictive as it will ever get with love, it is as much love as one can ever take. It is love and love alone and one can never seem to have enough of it.


Living and loving are not one grand expedition nor is it a luxury cruise. There will moist certainly be luxuries along the way, there will be meadows with green grass and beautiful flowers, there will be the wonderful music of brooks and the solidarity of woods. Even if it turns out not to be luxurious it will most certainly be happy. But that will not be all that is to it, there will storms and there will be dark clouds that slowly crawl its way over the marvelous dreams that we so incipiently weave. Even while as I was writing these wonderful words of love I am scornful at my lovely wife for she just bugged me insipidly. For she must know what I am doing and is convinced that whatever it is that I am doing, I love it more than her and this time she may very well be right.


Every fight revitalizes the relationship, you fight and you get it out of your system. Then you make up, apologize and make slow and passionate love as if you two where separated for an eternity. That is how you make it work and make it last, the fights and the thrown China is as much part of this voyage as the reckless careless love that we inspire. But one thing must be remembered not all fights are meant to be won some are to be lost as others are to be won, because your loss your victory as well.


Now are you wondering what has all this to do with the beautiful mornings I was earlier describing? Each of those mornings is a rose and they have their thorns. Every morning as you wake, as you glance at the angelic face, with eyes closed, face calm and a small unperceivable smile hanging on her luscious lips one must realize that it is love that is sleeping with you love that is both beautiful and thorny. Slowly when you kiss her temple and take in her scent, gently as you press her to you and feel in you, her heart beat that is the beauty of life that is love. When in your dreams and in your passion your heart beats as one and when every morning at the sight of that woman your heart skips a beat, that is love. And such love is made with great patience and utmost care.


PS: I no longer scorn at her but has a smile on my face that says that I can't be angry at her long enough and at the first sight of her when I sneak out of my study, I will embrace her and look into the beautiful eyes of hers, I will kiss her on her soft lips just like our first kiss and the many first kisses hence. That is our love unspoken but forever expressed.