~*~ My favorite books ~*~
I believe that reading is one of the most selfish pleasures. You can sit in a corner and read your favorite book - build the setting of the story and the characters with your own imagination. I love reading. Gosh, I've done enough reading as a part of school work, but reading for just love of reading bestows rewards of its own.
Some books that I really enjoyed reading are...
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A story about, Laura, who's crippled due to a childhood illness - one leg slightly shorter than the other, and held in a brace. Stemming from this, Laura's separation increases till she is like a piece of her own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf.
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A Doll's House A women cannot be herself in contemporary society, it is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge feminine conduct from a male point of view. She has committed a crime, and she is proud of it; because she did it for love of her husband and to save his life. But the husband, with his conventional views of honor, stands on the side of the law and looks at the affair with male eyes.
The Metamorphosis, In
the Penal Colony & Other Stories Gregor
Samsa woke up one morning to a uniquely cruel dilemma. Over the course of
his night's sleep, he had somehow mutated form from human to a monstrous
beetle-like insect. When he crawled out of bed shiny and black to go
downstairs, he became aware of a suddenly unwelcoming world where even his
family treated him like an alien, a freak. The Metamorphosis
uses an absurd premise to create a narrative condition to playfully tell
the story of guilt, inadequacy and isolation.
Misery
Selected Stories I have not read all of the stories written by Alice Munro, but I've read a few, and one of my all time favorites is, "How I Met My Husband," I've also seen this movie, a very well done film! The title is quite self explanatory, but the way its written is remarkable.
Far from the Madding
Crowd "It
is among such communities as these that happiness will find her last
refuge on earth..". Against this backdrop Hardy tells a vivid story
of life in rural Wessex which centres on the independent and beautiful
Bathsheba Everdene. She decides to manage the farm she has inherited and
finds herself in a powerful position for a woman of the 1840s. But power
brings tragic complications when she has to decide between three rival
suitors.
Once in a Lifetime ~Books I want to read ~
A Suitable Boy Set amongst the dynamic political and social climate of 1950s India, A Suitable Boy: A Novel focused specifically on the youngest generation of four separate, well-off families, tracing their fortunes as they throw caution to the fan of their elders' expectations. Vikram Seth's novel is an epic exploration of the important years. Its characters claw desperately for their own realities all the while, as the title makes reference, trying to fulfil familial obligation.
Gone with the Wind
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