TAGGED

Tagged by G, I’d thought I would write.. but it was a book-tag, and I hadn’t read a new author in years. I tried to go about it as the tag instructed: "Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag up to 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose."

I realised 15 was five too many. It took me a good half hour to come up with these ten, and that’s after showing remarkable restraint, because all I really wanted to put down were Georgette Heyers.

1. Regency Buck- Georgette Heyer: Lord Worth, my all-time favourite hero. Dashing, suave, and a veritable dish. Correction: Fictional hero, damn.
2. Arabella- Georgette Heyer: Mr. Beaumaris.. much smoother, just as dashing, and equally rich.. but missing Worth’s Je ne sais quoi.. and I’m not dangling after a title :)
3. Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen: Not for Darcy, definitely not. But my first old-world romance, thanks to an English teacher we called Gonlu :)
4. And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie: The first book that sent a chill down my spine and made me peer from behind the curtains into the darkness outside with every expectation of being murdered. And while there are those who would love to remind me that I fell asleep whilst reading the climax, I maintain that I was scared unconscious.
5. A book on Versace which was a gift from across the seven seas: Remarkably special. And not just because it tapped into my interests.
6. Right ho, Jeeves- P.G.Wodehouse: "the stars are God's daisy chain", and "every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born" hehe :)
7. Bombay Deco- Sharda Dwivedi & Rahul Mehrotra: A book on Art Deco in Bombay from the 1930s, with glimpses of an old-world Bombay that held me spellbound.
8. Enid Blyton: and I can’t pick just one book.
9. Archie comics: To which my dad attributes all my knowledge, or lack thereof. It’s meant to put me to the blush :)
10. Timeline- Michael Crichton: The only science fiction which I didn’t fall asleep in the middle of.
    

While some of these popped into my head because they thrilled me, there are those that occupy memories, even though I haven’t read them in years.

I’m tagging people who I know read, who read my blog, and those with particular connections to the above. G, you get tagged for.. well, timepass :D Here you go, and people, please write, I could do with the Entertainment!

Deepbluesea & daviejones, thefirstidiot & kookygoblin (may this make you get back to blogging!), DSK, Monika (enough incentive to start?), Shaunak, Dinesh, Ritesh- A second tag in case you’d like to write about Asterix!

A special dedication: To Ma, who introduced me to Georgette Heyer—who makes me less cynical, even if only for a while :)