Sunshine Too Brief

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I'm a self-absorbed Bengali-Torontonian;
Fish comes to me raw, wrappend in seaweed, not cooked in curry;
I love watching thunderstorms and rain;
Sad endings make more sense to me than happy ones;
I hate empty walls.

In the News

Craving of the week-
Dark Chocolate
Reading List-
Midnight's Children
Movie review(out of 5)-
127 hours- *****
Buried- ****
That Girl in Yellow Boots- **
Love of the week-
Seeing James Franco
Aim for the weekend-
Watch 'Going Postal' The Movie

My Novella: Samosa for the Arranged Souls

Introduction & Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapters 3, 4 & 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 continues

Chapter 7 & Epilogue


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    Wednesday

    Books I have loved over the years


    I'm going to like listing this, more like an updated version of the one I kept in my diary from when I was 11 !

    Among the classics
    * Pride and Prejudice, Persuation, Emma - Jane Austen
    * Room with a View, Passage to India- E.M. Forster
    * The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran
    * The Idiot- Fyodor Dostrovevsky
    * Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
    * Lord of the Rings
    * Anna Karenin
    * To Kill a Mocking Bird
    * A Steetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams
    * Daddy Long Legs- Jean Webster
    * Among Shakespeare ones- Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear
    * Little Mermaid- the sad version of Hans Christian Andersen, not the Disney one
    * Arabian Nights- was there ever an author?

    Among more recent Fiction
    * Tamarind Mem- Anita Rao Badami
    * God of Small things- Arundhati Roy
    * Love Story & Oliver's Story- Erich Segal
    * Bridget Jone's Diary (1&2)- Helen Fielding
    * The Outsider- Albert Camus
    * Life of Pi- Yann Martel
    * If Tomorrow comes - Sidney Sheldon
    * Harry Potter series
    * Duke and I - Julia Quinn
    * Atonement- Ian McEwan
    * The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
    * Girl with a Pearl Earing- Tracy Chevalier
    * Contact- Carl Segan
    * Hichhickers Guide to the Galaxy series- Douglas Adams
    * Discworld Series- Terry Pratchett
    * Coma- Robin Cook
    * Dune- Frank Herbert
    * The Dark Half and The Shining- Stephen King
    The following from my old list...that I can not remember what the story was about, but I had childishly put stars beside them so I must have really liked them
    * The Pendragon virus- Cait London
    * Just Killing Time- Derek Van Armen
    * A Parcel of Patterns- Jill Patron Walsh
    * Airport- Arthur Hailey
    ...............there tons more that I am sure I'm missing :~/

    Oh ofcourse among the Bangla ones
    * Kaalbela- Shomoresh Mojumdar
    * Durbeen- Shirshendu Mukharjee
    * Prothom Alo and Shei Shomoi- Sunil Gangapadhaya
    * Pother Pachali- Bhibhutibhushan
    * Na Honnota- Moitree Debi
    * Chourongi- Shonkor
    * Bou Tubani Phool- Joshimuddin
    * Megh Bolechey Jabo Jabo, Daruchin-ir Deep, Rupali Deep, Shajghor, Shey or Nortoki, Debi, Dui Duari - Humayun Ahmed

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