On the way to the wedding - Julia Quinn

Lovely book ! I like Julia's style of writing. An out and out romance novel about the Bridgerton siblings :) It's about the quiet son Gregory who falls in love with a lady but on the way, realises he is in love with the friend who tries to help him win the girl :)

Hheheh Lovely book and a lovely romance :)

Insider dating - Jennifer O'Connell

This was a different kind of novel. Sort of where the heroine who is divorced in the book comes to terms with her divorce.

Starts off with her creating a database of guys and their habits/dislikes/quirks so that ladies can check out guys before going out on a date with them to see if they suit to their taste. hehhe I found it a bit funny. :) I guess in the long run, I would not like to know how a person takes his tea or what are his habits before meeting the person.

But it was a good book in the long run :) Read it while running to catch a flight for Xmas holidays

Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This was a book suggested to me by one of my friends. He told me that it was quite different from the other books that I read. So thought why not read this one for a change?

Turns out that this is really a nice book. It was a romance novel of a different kind. We have three main characters in this book. Fermina Daza - the heroine :) , Florentino Ariza - the so-called hero and Dr. Juvenal Urbino - Fermina's husband also another hero. Ariza sees Daza and falls madly in love. She with time falls in love but her father is against it. Then the father sends her off to his hometown, but still the lovers persist. When she comes back, after meeting with Ariza after all these years, she decides that she is not in love with him.

Then comes our Dr. Urbino who meets Daza when she is ill to check her. Somehow as you go long in this story they get married.

In the end, Urbino dies and Ariza comes up to Daza again to propose. And after a lot of dilly-dallying and chit chatting , they go off on a cruise :)

I have really made the story very short while telling you about it. There is more to it than what I wrote out here. But the book is a lovely one and the author's style is simply superb.

The Bone Vault - Linda Fairstein

This is simply a must read for the mystery buffs :) It is too good.

It involves a mystery where in a dead person's body ends up in an ancient sarcophagus just before it's shipped out of the country. This story involves the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Natural History, and the Cloisters.

A very good explanation of the musuem processes to acquire an item and how all items are identified and labelled is given in this book. We learn about burial customs about some tribe ( Don't recollect which one). The persons who investigate this crime are Alexandra Cooper, Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace.

All in all, it's a good book to read :) I understood a lot about museums and different aspects of things stored in a museum through reading this book

The secret of lost things - Sheridian Hay

This book certainly made me feel lost. It started out well with a girl whose mother passed away and who has moved to US from Tasmania for work. It tells her story how she helps out in a book store and how a missing book by a famous author gets located. Although Im still confused whether they find the book or not :) But overall the writing of the author is really good.

I came across the word "albino" here - It refers to a person who has a deficiency of melanin.
Good book in all.. but the novel was not found :( I was hoping that they would find it.

Also this is my first post with a link heheh was trying to see how it works :)

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

Most of you must be wondering why I havent posted recently. That is because I have started reading this novel " A Suitable Boy" which is around 1300 pages. And even for a reader like me who reads pretty fast, this is really huge. So I thought I ll keep you up-to-date with whatever I have read so far.

My main intention of choosing Vikram Seth was that I wanted to read something written by an Indian author. Wanted to hear more from my country :).

So here goes the story line so far.

There are numerous family lines entwined here where ones sister is another person's sis - in-law. So in brief, so far the main crux of the story is Lata. She is a single woman who has just finished her studies and falls in love with a Muslim person Kabir. The story is so far around them and their families and how the family reacts to such news. The mother is on a search for a suitable boy for her, along with her brothers and sisters. :)

There is a nephew Bhaskar who is interested in Maths a lot. There is some sub plot invovling shoe makers :) And lots of other twists and tales. I liked the novel so far and hope it has a good conclusion :)

Three old books that I read

This is different from my usual posts :)

This is about three books that I read sometime earlier this year -
Memoirs of geisha - Arthur Golden
A thousand splendid suns - Khalid Hosseini
The Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseini

All three books are so good. I would recommend them any day

The first one is about a geisha. I used to think geishas were prostitutes or something on those lines. But these are girls who are selected and have a lot of work to do. They have to be good in the art of converstaion, pouring sake and entertaining people. Dont want to reveal all the details here :)

Khalid Hosseini's books also are too good. Both of them were marvellous and worth reading :)